ValidatingContentHandler.java

/*
 * Copyright 2011 Revelytix, Inc.
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package org.mulgara.content;

/**
 * Hack to account for the fact that the MBox content handler does a blind parse of the content
 * to determine whether it can parse it. This fell out of the inversion of logic in choosing a
 * content handler that resulted from eliminating the ContentHandler.canParse method.
 * 
 * @author Alex Hall
 * @created Jul 19, 2011
 */
public interface ValidatingContentHandler extends ContentHandler {

  /**
   * Validate the given content, most likely based on a blind parse.
   * @param content Some content.
   * @return <tt>true</tt> if we can parse this content.
   */
  public boolean validate(Content content) throws NotModifiedException;
}