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package org.apache.xerces.impl.dv;

import java.util.Hashtable;

/**
 * The factory to create and return DTD types. The implementation should
 * store the created datatypes in static data, so that they can be shared by
 * multiple parser instance, and multiple threads.
 * 
 * @xerces.internal 
 *
 * @author Sandy Gao, IBM
 *
 * @version $Id: DTDDVFactory.java 558581 2007-07-23 01:38:26Z mrglavas $
 */
public abstract class DTDDVFactory {

    private static final String DEFAULT_FACTORY_CLASS = "org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.dtd.DTDDVFactoryImpl";

    /**
     * Get an instance of the default DTDDVFactory implementation.
     *
     * @return  an instance of DTDDVFactory implementation
     * @exception DVFactoryException  cannot create an instance of the specified
     *                                class name or the default class name
     */
    public static final DTDDVFactory getInstance() throws DVFactoryException {
        return getInstance(DEFAULT_FACTORY_CLASS);
    }

    /**
     * Get an instance of DTDDVFactory implementation.
     *
     * @param factoryClass  name of the implementation to load.
     * @return  an instance of DTDDVFactory implementation
     * @exception DVFactoryException  cannot create an instance of the specified
     *                                class name or the default class name
     */
    public static final DTDDVFactory getInstance(String factoryClass) throws DVFactoryException {
        try {
            // if the class name is not specified, use the default one
            return (DTDDVFactory)
                (ObjectFactory.newInstance(factoryClass, ObjectFactory.findClassLoader(), true));
        } 
        catch (ClassCastException e) {
            throw new DVFactoryException("DTD factory class " + factoryClass + " does not extend from DTDDVFactory.");
        }
    }

    // can't create a new object of this class
    protected DTDDVFactory() {}

    /**
     * return a dtd type of the given name
     *
     * @param name  the name of the datatype
     * @return      the datatype validator of the given name
     */
    public abstract DatatypeValidator getBuiltInDV(String name);

    /**
     * get all built-in DVs, which are stored in a hashtable keyed by the name
     *
     * @return      a hashtable which contains all datatypes
     */
    public abstract Hashtable getBuiltInTypes();

}
