ADBXMLStreamReader.java

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package org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.reader;

import org.apache.axis2.databinding.utils.Constants;

import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamReader;

public interface ADBXMLStreamReader extends XMLStreamReader, Constants {

    // this will help to handle Text within the current element.
    // user should pass the element text to the property list as this
    // ELEMENT_TEXT as the key. This key deliberately has a space in it
    // so that it is not a valid XML name
    static final String ELEMENT_TEXT = "Element Text";

    /** Extra method to query the state of the pullparser */
    boolean isDone();

    /** add the parent namespace context to this parser */
    void addNamespaceContext(NamespaceContext nsContext);

    /**
     * Initiate the parser - this will do whatever the needed tasks to initiate the parser and must
     * be called before attempting any specific parsing using this parser
     */
    void init();
}