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*/

/**
	Defines interfase that the Tibetan scanners will
	use to look up the Tibetan words organized in
	a tree structure.

    @author Andrés Montano Pellegrini
    @see TibetanScanner
*/

package org.thdl.tib.scanner;

/** The generic interface for accesing dictionaries. An instance of
    a SyllableListTree represents a node containing a syllable, a definition
    (if it is the last syllable of a word) and links to its "children".

    @author Andrés Montano Pellegrini
*/
public interface SyllableListTree
{
	public String getDef();
	public Definitions getDefs();
	public boolean hasDef();
	public SyllableListTree lookUp(String silStr);	
	
	public DictionarySource getDictionarySource();
	public BitDictionarySource getDictionarySourcesWanted();
}