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3  $Id: ElementListener.java,v 1.2 2004/02/06 09:57:48 jhunter Exp $
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56
57 package org.jdom.contrib.input.scanner;
58
59 import org.jdom.Element;
60 import org.jdom.JDOMException;
61
62 /**
63  * The interface objects listening for element creation notification
64  * fired by {@link ElementScanner} shall implement.
65  *
66  * @author Laurent Bihanic
67  */

68 public interface ElementListener {
69
70    /**
71     * Notifies of the parsing of an Element.
72     * <p>
73     * <code>ElementScanner</code> invokes this method when
74     * encountering the closing tag of the element definition. Thus,
75     * element <code>e</code> and all its child nodes are fully built
76     * but the parent element is not.</p>
77     * <p>
78     * Note that the element is not attached to any
79     * {@link Element#getDocument document} and that the
80     * {@link Element#getParent() parent element} is <code>null</code>
81     * unless another listener is listening on one of the element
82     * ancestors.</p>
83     * <p>
84     * As no copy of the notified elements is performed, all changes
85     * made on element <code>e</code> will be visible of the
86     * not-yet-notified listeners listening on this same element and
87     * of the listeners listening on one of the element ancestors.</p>
88     *
89     * @param path the path to the parsed element.
90     * @param e the parsed <code>Element</code>.
91     *
92     * @throws JDOMException if the listener wishes to abort the
93     * parsing of the input XML document.
94     */

95    abstract public void elementMatched(String JavaDoc path, Element e)
96                                                         throws JDOMException;
97 }
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