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package org.apache.myfaces.trinidadinternal.share.xml;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;

/**
 * Interface for generic access to XML functionality.  Abstracts
 * differences between XML parsers.
 * <p>
 * @version $Name:  $ ($Revision: adfrt/faces/adf-faces-impl/src/main/java/oracle/adfinternal/view/faces/share/xml/XMLProvider.java#0 $) $Date: 10-nov-2005.18:59:16 $
 */
public interface XMLProvider
{
  /**
   * Returns an implementation of the SAX2 XMLReader interface.
   */
  public XMLReader getXMLReader();

  /**
   * Parses the specified input.
   * @param source The InputSource to parse
   * @return Returns a Document object containing the DOM representation
   *   of the specified InputSource.
   */
  public Document parseDocument(InputSource source)
    throws IOException, SAXException;
}
