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using System;
namespace Lucene.Net.Index
{
	
	/// <summary>Abstract class for enumerating terms.
	/// <p>Term enumerations are always ordered by Term.compareTo().  Each term in
	/// the enumeration is greater than all that precede it.  
	/// </summary>
	
	public abstract class TermEnum
	{
		/// <summary>Increments the enumeration to the next element.  True if one exists.</summary>
		public abstract bool Next();
		
		/// <summary>Returns the current Term in the enumeration.</summary>
		public abstract Term Term();
		
		/// <summary>Returns the docFreq of the current Term in the enumeration.</summary>
		public abstract int DocFreq();
		
		/// <summary>Closes the enumeration to further activity, freeing resources. </summary>
		public abstract void  Close();
		
		// Term Vector support
		
		/// <summary>Skips terms to the first beyond the current whose value is
		/// greater or equal to <i>target</i>. <p>Returns true iff there is such
		/// an entry.  <p>Behaves as if written: <pre>
		/// public boolean skipTo(Term target) {
		/// do {
		/// if (!next())
		/// return false;
		/// } while (target > term());
		/// return true;
		/// }
		/// </pre>
		/// Some implementations are considerably more efficient than that.
		/// </summary>
		public virtual bool SkipTo(Term target)
		{
			do 
			{
				if (!Next())
					return false;
			}
			while (target.CompareTo(Term()) > 0);
			return true;
		}
	}
}