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package org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.dtd;

import org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.DatatypeValidator;
import org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.InvalidDatatypeValueException;
import org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.ValidationContext;

/**
 * <P>StringValidator validates that XML content is a W3C string type.</P>
 * <P>The string datatype represents character strings in XML. The
 * value space of string is the set of finite-length sequences 
 * of characters (as defined in [XML 1.0 Recommendation 
 * (Second Edition)]) that match the Char production 
 * from [XML 1.0 Recommendation (Second Edition)].
 * A character is an atomic unit of communication; it
 * is not further specified except to note that every
 * character has a corresponding Universal Code Set
 * code point ([ISO 10646],[Unicode] and [Unicode3]),
 * which is an integer.</P>
 * 
 * @xerces.internal 
 * 
 * @version $Id: StringDatatypeValidator.java 699902 2008-09-28 21:40:49Z mrglavas $
 */
public class StringDatatypeValidator implements DatatypeValidator {

    // construct a string datatype validator
    public StringDatatypeValidator() {
    }

    /**
     * Checks that "content" string is valid string value.
     * If invalid a Datatype validation exception is thrown.
     * 
     * @param content       the string value that needs to be validated
     * @param context       the validation context
     * @throws InvalidDatatypeException if the content is
     *         invalid according to the rules for the validators
     * @see InvalidDatatypeValueException
     */
    public void validate(String content, ValidationContext context) throws InvalidDatatypeValueException {
    }
    
}
