SlopParser.java

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package org.apache.cocoon.slop.interfaces;

import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.apache.cocoon.ProcessingException;

/** Interface to SLOP parsers
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:bdelacretaz@apache.org">Bertrand Delacretaz</a>
 * @version CVS $Id$
 */
 
public interface SlopParser {

   /** must be called before any call to processLine() */
    public void startDocument(ContentHandler destination)
        throws SAXException, ProcessingException;

    /** must be called once all calls to processLine() are done */
    public void endDocument()
        throws SAXException, ProcessingException;

    /** call this to process input lines, does the actual parsing */
    public void processLine(String line)
        throws SAXException, ProcessingException;
}