/*
* NOTE: This copyright does *not* cover user programs that use HQ
* program services by normal system calls through the application
* program interfaces provided as part of the Hyperic Plug-in Development
* Kit or the Hyperic Client Development Kit - this is merely considered
* normal use of the program, and does *not* fall under the heading of
* "derived work".
*
* Copyright (C) [2004, 2005, 2006], Hyperic, Inc.
* This file is part of HQ.
*
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* PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
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*
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*/
package org.hyperic.util.xmlparser;
/**
* An interface which classes much implement in order to have their
* attributes handled. If this interface is not implemented, then
* all attributes for a tag are considered to be 'unknown', and the
* object must implement the XmlUnAttrHandler to process them.
*/
public interface XmlAttrHandler {
/**
* Get a list of attributes which the handler knows about.
*/
public XmlAttr[] getAttributes();
/**
* Called when XmlParser finds a known attributes (as returned by
* getAttributes()).
*
* @param attrNumber An index into the array which was returned
* from getAttributes. The index represents the
* found attribute
* @param value The value of the attribute
*/
public void handleAttribute(int attrNumber, String value)
throws XmlAttrException;
}