01: /*
02: * Copyright 2002-2006 the original author or authors.
03: *
04: * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
05: * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
06: * You may obtain a copy of the License at
07: *
08: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
09: *
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:
17: package org.springframework.beans.factory.xml;
18:
19: import org.w3c.dom.Document;
20:
21: import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException;
22: import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReader;
23: import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
24:
25: /**
26: * Strategy interface for parsing XML bean definitions.
27: * Used by XmlBeanDefinitionReader for actually parsing a DOM document.
28: *
29: * <p>Instantiated per document to parse: Implementations can hold
30: * state in instance variables during the execution of the
31: * <code>registerBeanDefinitions</code> method, for example global
32: * settings that are defined for all bean definitions in the document.
33: *
34: * @author Juergen Hoeller
35: * @since 18.12.2003
36: * @deprecated as of Spring 2.0: superseded by BeanDefinitionDocumentReader
37: * @see BeanDefinitionDocumentReader
38: * @see XmlBeanDefinitionReader#setParserClass
39: */
40: public interface XmlBeanDefinitionParser {
41:
42: /**
43: * Parse bean definitions from the given DOM document,
44: * and register them with the given bean factory.
45: * @param reader the bean definition reader, containing the bean factory
46: * to work on and the bean class loader to use. Can also be used to load
47: * further bean definition files referenced by the given document.
48: * @param doc the DOM document
49: * @param resource descriptor of the original XML resource
50: * (useful for displaying parse errors)
51: * @return the number of bean definitions found
52: * @throws BeanDefinitionStoreException in case of parsing errors
53: */
54: int registerBeanDefinitions(BeanDefinitionReader reader,
55: Document doc, Resource resource)
56: throws BeanDefinitionStoreException;
57:
58: }
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