1 /* 2 * Copyright (C) 2005 Alfresco, Inc. 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Mozilla Public License version 1.1 5 * with a permitted attribution clause. You may obtain a 6 * copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.alfresco.org/legal/license.txt 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 11 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 12 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, 13 * either express or implied. See the License for the specific 14 * language governing permissions and limitations under the 15 * License. 16 */ 17 package org.alfresco.config.xml.elementreader; 18 19 import org.dom4j.Element; 20 21 import org.alfresco.config.ConfigElement; 22 23 /** 24 * Definition of an object responsible for converting the XML representation of a config 25 * element into an in-memory object representation 26 * 27 * @author gavinc 28 */ 29 public interface ConfigElementReader 30 { 31 /** 32 * Parses the given XML element into a ConfigElement object 33 * 34 * @param element The XML element to parse 35 * @return The object representation of the XML element 36 */ 37 public ConfigElement parse(Element element); 38 } 39