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package org.apache.batik.dom;

import org.apache.batik.dom.util.HashTable;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.stylesheets.StyleSheet;

/**
 * This interface represents a StyleSheet factory.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:stephane@hillion.org">Stephane Hillion</a>
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface StyleSheetFactory {
    /**
     * Creates a stylesheet from the data of the xml-stylesheet
     * processing instruction or return null when it is not possible
     * to create the given stylesheet.
     */
    StyleSheet createStyleSheet(Node node, HashTable pseudoAttrs);
}