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package com.intellij.psi.tree;
import com.intellij.lang.ASTNode;
/**
* An additional interface to be implemented by {@link IElementType} instances for tokens which should be parsed lazily, but
* for some reasons extending {@link ILazyParseableElementType} is impossible.
*/
public interface ILazyParseableElementTypeBase {
/**
* Parses the contents of the specified chameleon node and returns the AST tree
* representing the parsed contents.
*
* @param chameleon the node to parse.
* @return the parsed contents of the node.
*/
ASTNode parseContents(ASTNode chameleon);
}