DOMParser


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17  package org.apache.excalibur.xml.dom;
18  
19  import java.io.IOException  ;
20  
21  import org.w3c.dom.Document  ;
22  import org.xml.sax.InputSource  ;
23  import org.xml.sax.SAXException  ;
24  
25  /**
26   * The parser can be used to parse any XML document given
27   * by a {@link InputSource} object.
28   * It can create a DOM from the parsed document.
29   *
30   * @author <a HREF="mailto:dev@avalon.apache.org">Avalon Development Team</a>
31   * @version CVS $Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2004/02/28 11:47:31 $
32   */
33  public interface DOMParser
34  {
35      String   ROLE = DOMParser.class.getName();
36  
37      /**
38       * Parse the {@link InputSource} and create
39       * a DOM out of it.
40       */
41      Document   parseDocument( InputSource   in )
42          throws SAXException  , IOException  ;
43  
44      /**
45       * Return a new {@link Document}.
46       */
47      Document   createDocument() throws SAXException  ;
48  }
49

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