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package org.eclipse.ui.intro.config;

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

/**
 * A content provider for dynamic XHTML Intro content. When an XHTML intro page
 * is parsed and a contentProvider element is detected, it is used to create
 * dynamic XHTML content in the page.
 *
 * @since 3.1
 */
public interface IIntroXHTMLContentProvider extends IIntroContentProvider {

    /**
     * Create XHTML content in the provided parent DOM Element. A typical usage
     * for this method would be: <br>
     *
     * <br>
     * <code>
     * <contentProvider id="contentProviderId"
     * class="xx.yy.IntroContentProvider"
     * pluginId="xx.yy.id"/> <br></code> <br>
     *
     * A parent DOM Element will be passed to allow for adding dynamic content
     * by manipulating the Java XML DOM for the XHTML file. A div is created
     * with an id equal to the id specified in the contentProvider element, and
     * is passed as the parent. In the above example, the DOM element
     * representing a div with id=myContentProviderDivId would be the parent
     * passed.
     *
     * @param id
     *            the unique identifier of the content element. The same content
     *            provider class can be reused for several elements and the id
     *            can be used to tell them apart.
     *
     * @param parent
     *            the parent xml Element where dynamic content will be added as
     *            children.
     *
     */
    public void createContent(String id, Element parent);



}