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  package mf.org.apache.xerces.xs;
  
  /**
   * Represents an actual value of a simple type.
   */
  public interface XSValue {
  
      /**
       * The schema normalized value.
       */
      String getNormalizedValue();
  
      /**
       * The actual value. <code>null</code> if the value is in error.
       */
      Object getActualValue();
  
      /**
       * The declared simple type definition used to validate this value.
       * It can be a union type.
       */
      XSSimpleTypeDefinition getTypeDefinition();
  
      /**
       * If the declared simple type definition is a union, return the member
       * type actually used to validate the value. Otherwise null.
       */
      XSSimpleTypeDefinition getMemberTypeDefinition();
  
      /**
       * If <code>getTypeDefinition()</code> returns a list type whose item type
       * is a union type, then this method returns a list with the same length
       * as the value list, for simple types that actually validated
       * the corresponding item in the value.
       */
      XSObjectList getMemberTypeDefinitions();
  
      /**
       * The actual value built-in datatype, e.g.
       * <code>STRING_DT, SHORT_DT</code>. If the type definition of this
       * value is a list type definition, this method returns
       * <code>LIST_DT</code>. If the type definition of this value is a list
       * type definition whose item type is a union type definition, this
       * method returns <code>LISTOFUNION_DT</code>. To query the actual value
       * of the list or list of union type definitions use
       * <code>itemValueTypes()</code>.
       */
      short getActualValueType();
  
      /**
       * In the case the actual value represents a list, i.e. the
       * <code>actualNormalizedValueType</code> is <code>LIST_DT</code>, the
       * returned array consists of one type kind which represents the itemType
       * . For example:
       * <pre> &lt;simpleType name="listtype"&gt; &lt;list
       * itemType="positiveInteger"/&gt; &lt;/simpleType&gt; &lt;element
       * name="list" type="listtype"/&gt; ... &lt;list&gt;1 2 3&lt;/list&gt; </pre>
       * <p/>
       * The <code>schemaNormalizedValue</code> value is "1 2 3", the
       * <code>actualNormalizedValueType</code> value is <code>LIST_DT</code>,
       * and the <code>itemValueTypes</code> is an array of size 1 with the
       * value <code>POSITIVEINTEGER_DT</code>.
       * <br> If the actual value represents a list type definition whose item
       * type is a union type definition, i.e. <code>LISTOFUNION_DT</code>,
       * for each actual value in the list the array contains the
       * corresponding memberType kind. For example:
       * <pre> &lt;simpleType
       * name='union_type' memberTypes="integer string"/&gt; &lt;simpleType
       * name='listOfUnion'&gt; &lt;list itemType='union_type'/&gt;
       * &lt;/simpleType&gt; &lt;element name="list" type="listOfUnion"/&gt;
       * ... &lt;list&gt;1 2 foo&lt;/list&gt; </pre>
       * The
       * <code>schemaNormalizedValue</code> value is "1 2 foo", the
       * <code>actualNormalizedValueType</code> is <code>LISTOFUNION_DT</code>
       * , and the <code>itemValueTypes</code> is an array of size 3 with the
       * following values: <code>INTEGER_DT, INTEGER_DT, STRING_DT</code>.
       */
      ShortList getListValueTypes();
  
  }
  