/**
 * An arbitrary memo of document interpretation.
 */
export interface MetadataDocumentAnnotation {
    name: string;
}
/**
 * Core abstraction for a metadata entity or subtype used by
 * decomposition.
 *
 * Note that there is absolutely no assumption about the nature of either
 * the internal memory structure of the document (though often a DOM document)
 * or the external representation for storage on the file system (though
 * often XML). The external representation <b>is</b> assumed to be utf8 however.
 */
export interface MetadataDocument {
    data: any;
    annotation: MetadataDocumentAnnotation;
    getRepresentation(): string;
    setRepresentation(representation: string): void;
    getAnnotation(): MetadataDocumentAnnotation;
    setAnnotation(annotation: MetadataDocumentAnnotation): void;
    isEquivalent(doc: MetadataDocument): boolean;
    isEquivalentTo(representation: string): boolean;
}