1 /* 2 * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml; 17 18 import java.io.InputStream; 19 20 /** 21 * Common interface for XML parsers. We are not using JAXP because 22 * some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant. 23 * 24 * @author Dmitri Plotnikov 25 * @version $Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2004/02/29 14:17:37 $ 26 */ 27 public interface XMLParser { 28 29 /** 30 * Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model, 31 * which is not necessarily DOM. 32 */ 33 Object parseXML(InputStream stream); 34 }