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1 /*
2  * All content copyright (c) 2003-2006 Terracotta, Inc., except as may otherwise be noted in a separate copyright notice. All rights reserved.
3  */
4 package com.tc.config.schema.utils;
5
6 import org.apache.xmlbeans.XmlObject;
7
8 /**
9  * Allows you to compare several {@link XmlObject}s.
10  */
11 public interface XmlObjectComparator {
12
13   boolean equals(XmlObject one, XmlObject two);
14
15   /**
16    * This compares two {@link XmlObject} implementations to see if they are semantically equal; it also descends to
17    * child objects. It throws an exception instead of returning a value so that you can find out <em>why</em> the two
18    * objects aren't equal, since this is a deep compare.
19    */
20   void checkEquals(XmlObject one, XmlObject two) throws NotEqualException;
21
22 }
23
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