001    //$HeadURL: svn+ssh://mschneider@svn.wald.intevation.org/deegree/base/trunk/resources/eclipse/svn_classfile_header_template.xml $
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038    package org.deegree.io.datastore;
039    
040    import org.deegree.framework.xml.XMLParsingException;
041    import org.deegree.io.datastore.schema.MappedGMLSchemaDocument;
042    
043    /**
044     * Abstract base class for all datastore specific annotation parsers.
045     * 
046     * @author <a href="mailto:schneider@lat-lon.de">Markus Schneider </a>
047     * @author last edited by: $Author:$
048     * 
049     * @version $Revision:$, $Date:$
050     */
051    public abstract class AnnotationDocument extends MappedGMLSchemaDocument {
052    
053        /**
054         * Parses the global schema annotations into a {@link DatastoreConfiguration}.
055         * 
056         * @return corresponding DatastoreConfiguration
057         * @throws XMLParsingException
058         */
059        public abstract DatastoreConfiguration parseDatastoreConfiguration()
060                                throws XMLParsingException;
061    
062    }