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package javax.xml.stream.events;

import java.io.Writer;

import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
import javax.xml.stream.Location;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;

public interface XMLEvent extends XMLStreamConstants {
	public Characters asCharacters();

	public EndElement asEndElement();

	public StartElement asStartElement();

	public int getEventType();

	public Location getLocation();

	public QName getSchemaType();

	public boolean isAttribute();

	public boolean isCharacters();

	public boolean isEndDocument();

	public boolean isEndElement();

	public boolean isEntityReference();

	public boolean isNamespace();

	public boolean isProcessingInstruction();

	public boolean isStartDocument();

	public boolean isStartElement();

	public void writeAsEncodedUnicode(Writer writer) throws XMLStreamException;
}