content: /*
   * Root.java July 2006
   *
   * Copyright (C) 2006, Niall Gallagher <niallg@users.sf.net>
   *
   * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   * You may obtain a copy of the License at
   *
   *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
   *
   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
   * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or 
   * implied. See the License for the specific language governing 
   * permissions and limitations under the License.
   */
  
  package com.aliyun.odps.simpleframework.xml;
  
  import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy;
  import java.lang.annotation.Retention;
  
  /**
   * This <code>Root</code> annotation is used to annotate classes that
   * need to be serialized. Also, elements within an element list, as
   * represented by the <code>ElementList</code> annotation need this
   * annotation so that the element names can be determined. All other
   * field or method names can be determined using the annotation and 
   * so the <code>Root</code> annotation is not needed for such objects. 
   * 
   * @author Niall Gallagher
   */
  @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
  public @interface Root {
    
     /**
      * This represents the name of the XML element. This is optional
      * an is used when the name of the class is not suitable as an
      * element name. If this is not specified then the name of the
      * XML element will be the name of the class. If specified the
      * class will be serialized and deserialized with the given name.
      * 
      * @return the name of the XML element this represents
      */
     String name() default "";
  
     /**
      * This is used to determine whether the object represented
      * should be parsed in a strict manner. Strict parsing requires
      * that each element and attribute in the XML document match a 
      * field in the class schema. If an element or attribute does
      * not match a field then the parsing fails with an exception.
      * Setting strict parsing to false allows details within the
      * source XML document to be skipped during deserialization.
      * 
      * @return true if strict parsing is enabled, false otherwise
      */ 
     boolean strict() default true;
  }
  