///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol (SDLIP)
//
// Documentation:
//   Protocol is described at 
//     http://www-diglib.stanford.edu/~testbed/doc2/SDLIP
//
// This is the abstract SDLIP interface as used to communicate between
// client applications and their local client transport module, and
// between LSPs and their local server transport module.
//
// Last Modified: Jul18, 1999 (Andreas Paepcke)
//
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////


module sdlip {

  // Forward reference
  interface XMLObject;

  // If your idl compiler doesn't handle #include correctly (eg. the
  // mico idl compiler doesn't actually include the file inline before
  // it compiles), then you should manually place the SDLIPCore.idl
  // file here in place of the following line and then compile.
  #include "SDLIPCore.idl"

  ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
  // XMLObject Interface
  // 
  // Interface for interacting with the packaged XML elements that are
  // passed around as parameters. Some implementations will subclass
  // XMLObject to add DOM (Document Object Model) capabilities:
  //
  ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

  interface XMLObject {

	string getString() raises (SDLIPException);
	void   setString(in string XMLStr) raises (SDLIPException);
  };

};