/* 
 * AT-SPI - Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface 
 * (Gnome Accessibility Project; http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap)
 *
 * Copyright 2005 Sun Microsystems Inc.
 *
 * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
 * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 * Library General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
 * License along with this library; if not, write to the
 * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
 * Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
 */

#ifndef __ACCESSIBILITY_DOCUMENT_DEFINED__
#define __ACCESSIBILITY_DOCUMENT_DEFINED__

module Accessibility {

    /**
     * Primarily a 'tagging' interface which indicates the start of 
     * document content in the Accessibility hierarchy.  
     * Accessible objects below the node implementing
     * Document are normally assumed to be part of the document content.
     * Attributes of Document are those attributes associated with the document 
     * as a whole.  Objects that implement Document are normally expected to
     * implement Collection as well.
     *
     * \see Accessibility::Collection
     */
  interface Document : Bonobo::Unknown {

     /**
     * Gets the locale associated with the document's content.
     * e.g. the locale for LOCALE_TYPE_MESSAGES.
     *
     * @returns a string compliant with the POSIX standard for locale description.
     **/
    string       getLocale ();

      /**
       * Gets the value of a single attribute, if specified for the document as a whole.
       *
       * @param attributename: a string indicating the name of a specific attribute 
       * (name-value pair) being queried.
       * 
       * @returns a string corresponding to the value of the specified attribute, or
       * an empty string if the attribute is unspecified for the object.
       **/
    string       getAttributeValue (in string attributename);

      /**
       * Gets all attributes specified for a document as a whole.  
       * For attributes which change within 
       * the document content, see Accessibility::Text::getAttributes instead.
       * 
       * @returns an ::AttributeSet containing the attributes of the document, 
       * as name-value pairs.
       *
       * @since AT-SPI 1.8.0
       **/
    AttributeSet  getAttributes ();

    /**\cond **/
    void          unImplemented_ ();
    void          unImplemented2_ ();
    void          unImplemented3_ ();
    void          unImplemented4_ ();
    /**\endcond **/
  };
};

#endif