1 /** 2 * <copyright> 3 * 4 * Copyright (c) 2002-2004 IBM Corporation and others. 5 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 6 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 7 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at 8 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html 9 * 10 * Contributors: 11 * IBM - Initial API and implementation 12 * 13 * </copyright> 14 * 15 * $Id: TreeIterator.java,v 1.2 2005/06/08 06:19:08 nickb Exp $ 16 */ 17 package org.eclipse.emf.common.util; 18 19 20 import java.util.Iterator; 21 22 23 /** 24 * A mechanism for iterating over all the nodes of a tree; 25 * it provides the capability to {@link #prune prune} the iteration so that all descendants of a particular node are skipped. 26 */ 27 public interface TreeIterator extends Iterator 28 { 29 /** 30 * Prunes the iterator so that it skips over all the nodes below the most recent result of calling {@link #next next()}. 31 */ 32 void prune(); 33 } 34