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package com.evolveum.midpoint.prism.polystring;
/**
* Normalizer for PolyStrings. Classes implementing this interface are able to take an
* original string (in the PolyString sense) and return a normalized version of the
* string.
*
* @see PolyString
* @author Radovan Semancik
*/
public interface PolyStringNormalizer {
/**
* Returns a normalized version of the string.
* @return normalized version of the string
*/
public String normalize(String orig);
}