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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016 Cisco Systems, Inc. and others. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this distribution,
+ * and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ */
+package org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.spi;
+
+import org.eclipse.jdt.annotation.NonNull;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.stmt.ModuleEffectiveStatement;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.model.api.stmt.ModuleStatement;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.spi.meta.NamespaceBehaviour;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.spi.meta.StatementNamespace;
+import org.opendaylight.yangtools.yang.parser.spi.meta.StmtContext;
+
+/**
+ * Intermediate-stage namespace equivalent to ModuleNamespace except it is keyed by module names. This namespace is
+ * used to resolve inter-module references before actual linkage occurs.
+ */
+public interface PreLinkageModuleNamespace
+ extends StatementNamespace<String, ModuleStatement, ModuleEffectiveStatement> {
+ NamespaceBehaviour<String, StmtContext<?, ModuleStatement, ModuleEffectiveStatement>,
+ @NonNull PreLinkageModuleNamespace> BEHAVIOUR = NamespaceBehaviour.global(PreLinkageModuleNamespace.class);
+
+}