| DocumentContent.java |
1 /*
2 * DocumentContent.java
3 *
4 * Copyright (c) 1998-2004, The University of Sheffield.
5 *
6 * This file is part of GATE (see http://gate.ac.uk/), and is free
7 * software, licenced under the GNU Library General Public License,
8 * Version 2, June 1991 (in the distribution as file licence.html,
9 * and also available at http://gate.ac.uk/gate/licence.html).
10 *
11 * Hamish Cunningham, 15/Feb/2000
12 *
13 * $Id: DocumentContent.java,v 1.11 2004/07/21 17:10:02 akshay Exp $
14 */
15
16 package gate;
17
18 import java.io.Serializable;
19
20 import gate.util.InvalidOffsetException;
21
22 /** The content of Documents.
23 */
24 public interface DocumentContent extends Serializable {
25
26 /** The contents under a particular span. */
27 public DocumentContent getContent(Long start, Long end)
28 throws InvalidOffsetException;
29
30 /** The size of this content (e.g. character length for textual
31 * content).
32 */
33 public Long size();
34
35 } // interface DocumentContent
36