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package org.thymeleaf.dialect;
/**
* <p>
* Base interface for all dialects created for extending the features available during
* Thymeleaf's template processing.
* </p>
* <p>
* Note this is a base interface without much meaning of its own. Instead, dialects
* should implement one or several of the following sub-interfaces:
* </p>
* <ul>
* <li>{@link IProcessorDialect} for dialects providing processors.</li>
* <li>{@link IPreProcessorDialect} for dialects providing pre-processors.</li>
* <li>{@link IPostProcessorDialect} for dialects providing post-processors.</li>
* <li>{@link IExpressionObjectDialect} for dialects providing expression objects.</li>
* <li>{@link IExecutionAttributeDialect} for dialects providing execution attributes.</li>
* </ul>
* <p>
* Note a class with this name existed since 1.0, but it was completely reimplemented
* in Thymeleaf 3.0
* </p>
*
* @author Daniel Fernández
*
* @see IProcessorDialect
* @see IPreProcessorDialect
* @see IPostProcessorDialect
* @see IExpressionObjectDialect
* @see IExecutionAttributeDialect
* @see org.thymeleaf.standard.StandardDialect
*
* @since 3.0.0
*
*/
public interface IDialect {
public String getName();
}