/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2005 Oracle Corporation.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Ian Trimble - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.jst.pagedesigner.dtmanager.converter;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
/**
* Produces output rendering for ITagConverter instances.
*
* <p><b>Provisional API - subject to change</b></p>
*
* @author Ian Trimble - Oracle
*/
public interface IOutputRenderer {
/**
* Uses the ITagConverterContext argument to produce output rendering.
*
* @param tagConverterContext ITagConverterContext instance providing
* ITagConverter-specific context and functionality.
* @return Element instance representing top Element in resulting output
* tree.
*
* TODO: let's parameterize the return type either with a generic type
* or with Object so that sub-classes can co-vary
*/
public Element render(ITagConverterContext tagConverterContext);
}