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+/* ====================================================================
+   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+   contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+   this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+   The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+   (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+   the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+       http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+   Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+   distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+   WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+   See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+   limitations under the License.
+==================================================================== */
+
+package org.apache.poi.ss.usermodel;
+
+import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+
+/**
+ * XSSF Only!
+ * High level abstraction of table in a workbook.
+ */
+public interface Table {
+    /**
+     * Regular expression matching a Structured Reference (Table syntax) for XSSF table expressions.
+     * Public for unit tests
+     * @see <a href="https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Using-structured-references-with-Excel-tables-F5ED2452-2337-4F71-BED3-C8AE6D2B276E">
+     *         Excel Structured Reference Syntax
+     *      </a>
+     */
+    Pattern isStructuredReference = Pattern.compile("[a-zA-Z_\\\\][a-zA-Z0-9._]*\\[.*\\]");
+    
+    /**
+     *  Get the top-left col index
+     * @return
+     */
+    int getStartColIndex();
+    /**
+     *  Get the top-left row index
+     * @return
+     */
+    int getStartRowIndex();
+    /**
+     *  Get the bottom-right col index
+     * @return
+     */
+    int getEndColIndex();
+    /**
+     *  Get the bottom-right row index
+     * @return
+     */
+    int getEndRowIndex();
+    /**
+     * Get the name of the table.
+     */
+    String getName();
+    
+    /**
+     * Returns the index of a given named column in the table (names are case insensitive in XSSF).
+     * Note this list is lazily loaded and cached for performance. 
+     * Changes to the underlying table structure are not reflected in later calls
+     * unless <code>XSSFTable.updateHeaders()</code> is called to reset the cache.
+     */
+    int findColumnIndex(String column);
+    /**
+     * Returns the sheet name that the table belongs to.
+     */
+    String getSheetName();
+    /**
+     * Returns true iff the table has 'Totals' row
+     */
+    boolean isHasTotalsRow();
+    
+    
+}