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  20 package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.grammars;
  21 
  22 /**
  23  * <p> This interface specifies how the parser and the application
  24  * interact with respect to Grammar objects that the application
  25  * possesses--either by having precompiled them or by having stored them
  26  * from a previous validation of an instance document.  It makes no
  27  * assumptions about the kind of Grammar involved, or about how the
  28  * application's storage mechanism works.</p>
  29  *
  30  * <p>The interaction works as follows:
  31  * <ul>
  32  * <li>When a validator considers a document, it is expected to request
  33  * grammars of the type it can handle from this object using the
  34  * <code>retrieveInitialGrammarSet</code> method. </li>
  35  * <li>If it requires a grammar
  36  * not in this set, it will request it from this Object using the
  37  * <code>retrieveGrammar</code> method.  </li>
  38  * <li> After successfully validating an
  39  * instance, the validator should make any new grammars it has compiled

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  22 package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.grammars;
  23 
  24 /**
  25  * <p> This interface specifies how the parser and the application
  26  * interact with respect to Grammar objects that the application
  27  * possesses--either by having precompiled them or by having stored them
  28  * from a previous validation of an instance document.  It makes no
  29  * assumptions about the kind of Grammar involved, or about how the
  30  * application's storage mechanism works.</p>
  31  *
  32  * <p>The interaction works as follows:
  33  * <ul>
  34  * <li>When a validator considers a document, it is expected to request
  35  * grammars of the type it can handle from this object using the
  36  * <code>retrieveInitialGrammarSet</code> method. </li>
  37  * <li>If it requires a grammar
  38  * not in this set, it will request it from this Object using the
  39  * <code>retrieveGrammar</code> method.  </li>
  40  * <li> After successfully validating an
  41  * instance, the validator should make any new grammars it has compiled