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package org.springframework.beans.factory.xml;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException;
/**
* SPI for parsing an XML document that contains Spring bean definitions.
* Used by XmlBeanDefinitionReader for actually parsing a DOM document.
*
* <p>Instantiated per document to parse: Implementations can hold
* state in instance variables during the execution of the
* <code>registerBeanDefinitions</code> method, for example global
* settings that are defined for all bean definitions in the document.
*
* @author Juergen Hoeller
* @author Rob Harrop
* @since 18.12.2003
* @see XmlBeanDefinitionReader#setDocumentReaderClass
*/
public interface BeanDefinitionDocumentReader {
/**
* Read bean definitions from the given DOM document,
* and register them with the given bean factory.
* @param doc the DOM document
* @param readerContext the current context of the reader. Includes the resource being parsed
* @throws BeanDefinitionStoreException in case of parsing errors
*/
void registerBeanDefinitions(Document doc, XmlReaderContext readerContext)
throws BeanDefinitionStoreException;
}