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package org.netbeans.editor.ext;
/**
* Formatting layer that can be added to <tt>BaseFormatter</tt>
* to format the tokens.
*
* @author Miloslav Metelka
* @version 1.00
*/
public interface FormatLayer {
/** Get the name of the layer. This name is used to identify
* the layer when it's being removed or replaced and it can
* be used for debugging purposes too.
*/
public String getName();
/** Format the tokens begining with the firstItem till the end.
* @param fw format-writer to be formatted. The format-layer
* will usually create the format-support as an abstraction
* level over the format-layer.
*/
public void format(FormatWriter fw);
}