/*
* Copyright (c) 2004 Christopher Lenz and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Christopher Lenz - initial API
*
* $Id: IProblem.java,v 1.2 2006-10-21 23:13:43 pombredanne Exp $
*/
package net.sourceforge.phpeclipse.xml.core.parser;
/**
*
*/
public interface IProblem {
/**
* Returns a localized, human-readable message string which describes the
* problem.
*
* @return the problem message
*/
String getMessage();
/**
* Returns the start position of the problem (inclusive).
*
* @return the start position of the problem, or -1 if unknown
*/
int getSourceStart();
/**
* Returns the end position of the problem (inclusive).
*
* @return the end position of the problem), or -1 if unknown
*/
int getSourceEnd();
/**
* Returns the line number of the source where the problem begins.
*
* @return the line number of the source where the problem begins
*/
int getSourceLineNumber();
/**
* Returns whether the problem is an error.
*
* @return true
if the problem is an error,
* false
otherwise
*/
boolean isError();
/**
* Returns whether the problem is a warning.
*
* @return true
if the problem is a warning,
* false
otherwise
*/
boolean isWarning();
}