01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
05: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17: package org.apache.cocoon.components.elementprocessor;
18:
19: import org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component;
20:
21: /**
22: * Create instances of specific ElementProcessor implementations to
23: * handle specific XML elements and their content.
24: *
25: * @author Marc Johnson (marc_johnson27591@hotmail.com)
26: * @version CVS $Id: ElementProcessorFactory.java 433543 2006-08-22 06:22:54Z crossley $
27: */
28: public interface ElementProcessorFactory extends Component {
29: String ROLE = ElementProcessorFactory.class.getName();
30:
31: /**
32: * Given an XML element name, create and return an appropriate
33: * ElementProcessor.
34: *
35: * @param name element name
36: *
37: * @return the specified ElementProcessor
38: *
39: * @exception CannotCreateElementProcessorException if there is no
40: * ElementProcessor available for the specified name
41: */
42:
43: public ElementProcessor createElementProcessor(final String name)
44: throws CannotCreateElementProcessorException;
45:
46: } // end public interface ElementProcessorFactory
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