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package com.sun.xml.internal.xsom.parser;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.EntityResolver;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * Interface that hides the detail of parsing mechanism.
 * 
 * @author
 *     Kohsuke Kawaguchi (kohsuke.kawaguchi@sun.com)
 */
public interface XMLParser {
    /**
     * Parses the document identified by the given input source
     * and sends SAX events to the given content handler.
     * 
     * <p>
     * This method must be re-entrant.
     * 
     * @param errorHandler
     *      Errors found during the parsing must be reported to
     *      this handler so that XSOM can recognize that something went wrong.
     *      Always a non-null valid object
     * @param entityResolver
     *      Entity resolution should be done through this interface.
     *      Can be null.
     * 
     * @exception SAXException
     *      If ErrorHandler throws a SAXException, this method
     *      will tunnel it to the caller. All the other errors
     *      must be reported to the error handler.
     */
    void parse( InputSource source, ContentHandler handler,
        ErrorHandler errorHandler, EntityResolver entityResolver )
        
        throws SAXException, IOException;
}