IWhitespacePolicyFactory.java

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 * Copyright (c) 2004, 2008 John Krasnay and others.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
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 * Contributors:
 *     John Krasnay - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package net.sf.vex.dom;


/**
 * Factory for returning a WhitespacePolicy object given a document type 
 * public ID. This is required by DocumentBuilder, since we don't know what
 * WhitespacePolicy we need before we begin parsing the document.
 */
public interface IWhitespacePolicyFactory {
    
    /**
     * Return a WhitespacePolicy for documents with the given public ID.
     * @param publicId Public ID of the document type associated with
     * the document.
     */
    public IWhitespacePolicy getPolicy(String publicId);
}