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+(* Copyright (C) 2000, HELM Team.
+ *
+ * This file is part of HELM, an Hypertextual, Electronic
+ * Library of Mathematics, developed at the Computer Science
+ * Department, University of Bologna, Italy.
+ *
+ * HELM is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+ * of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * HELM is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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+ *
+ * For details, see the HELM World-Wide-Web page,
+ * http://cs.unibo.it/helm/.
+ *)
+
+(* AUTOR: Ferruccio Guidi <fguidi@cs.unibo.it>
+ *)
+
+(* low level functions *****************************************************)
+
+(* these functions give the string representation used in the db ----------*)
+
+val string_of_position : MQGTypes.position -> string
+val string_of_depth : MQGTypes.depth -> string
+val string_of_sort : MQGTypes.sort -> string
+
+(* these functions give the string representation used in MathQL ----------*)
+
+val mathql_of_position : MQGTypes.position -> string
+val mathql_of_depth : MQGTypes.depth -> string
+val mathql_of_uri : MQGTypes.uri -> string
+val mathql_of_sort : MQGTypes.sort -> string
+
+val mathql_of_specs : (string -> unit) -> MQGTypes.spec list -> unit
+
+val position_of_mathql : string -> MQGTypes.position
+val depth_of_mathql : string -> MQGTypes.depth
+val uri_of_mathql : string -> MQGTypes.uri
+val sort_of_mathql : string -> MQGTypes.sort
+
+(* high level functions ****************************************************)
+
+(* these functions give the textual representation used by umans ----------*)
+
+val text_of_position : MQGTypes.full_position -> string
+val text_of_depth : MQGTypes.full_position -> string -> string
+val text_of_sort : MQGTypes.sort -> string
+
+(* these functions classify the positions ---------------------------------*)
+
+val is_main_position : MQGTypes.full_position -> bool
+val is_conclusion : MQGTypes.full_position -> bool
+
+(* these function apply changes to positions ------------------------------*)
+
+val set_full_position : MQGTypes.full_position -> MQGTypes.optional_depth ->
+ MQGTypes.full_position
+val set_main_position : MQGTypes.main_position -> MQGTypes.optional_depth ->
+ MQGTypes.main_position