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1   /*
2    * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation
3    *
4    * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5    * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6    * You may obtain a copy of the License at
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10   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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15   */
16  package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml;
17  
18  import java.io.InputStream;
19  
20  /***
21   * Common interface for XML parsers.  We are not using JAXP because
22   * some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant.
23   *
24   * @author Dmitri Plotnikov
25   * @version $Revision: 1.4 $ $Date: 2004/02/29 14:17:37 $
26   */
27  public interface XMLParser {
28  
29      /***
30       * Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model,
31       * which is not necessarily DOM.
32       */
33      Object parseXML(InputStream stream);
34  }