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    1   /*
    2    *  DocumentContent.java
    3    *
    4    *  Copyright (c) 1998-2001, 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 1.9 2001/01/22 18:59:30 hamish Exp $
    14   */
    15
    16  package gate;
    17
    18  import java.util.*;
    19  import java.io.*;
    20  import gate.util.*;
    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

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