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/* ========================================================================
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* JCommon : a free general purpose class library for the Java(tm) platform
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* ========================================================================
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* (C) Copyright 2000-2005, by Object Refinery Limited and Contributors.
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* Project Info: http://www.jfree.org/jcommon/index.html
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* This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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* under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
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* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
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* (at your option) any later version.
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* This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
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* WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY
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* or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License for more details.
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
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* License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
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* Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301,
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* [Java is a trademark or registered trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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* in the United States and other countries.]
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* (C)opyright 2003, 2004, by Thomas Morgner and Contributors.
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* Original Author: Thomas Morgner;
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* Contributor(s): David Gilbert (for Object Refinery Limited);
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* $Id: XmlReadHandler.java,v 1.3 2005/10/18 13:32:52 mungady Exp $
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* Changes (from 25-Nov-2003)
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* --------------------------
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* 25-Nov-2003 : Added Javadocs (DG);
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package org.jfree.xml.parser;
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import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
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import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
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* A handler for reading an XML element.
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public interface XmlReadHandler {
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* This method is called at the start of an element.
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* @param tagName the tag name.
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* @param attrs the attributes.
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* @throws SAXException if there is a parsing error.
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* @throws XmlReaderException if there is a reader error.
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public void startElement(String tagName, Attributes attrs)
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throws SAXException, XmlReaderException;
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* This method is called to process the character data between element tags.
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* @param ch the character buffer.
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* @param start the start index.
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* @param length the length.
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* @throws SAXException if there is a parsing error.
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public void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
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* This method is called at the end of an element.
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* @param tagName the tag name.
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* @throws SAXException if there is a parsing error.
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* @throws XmlReaderException if there is a reader error.
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public void endElement(String tagName)
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throws SAXException, XmlReaderException;
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* Returns the object for this element or null, if this element does
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* not create an object.
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* @throws XmlReaderException if there is a parsing error.
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public Object getObject() throws XmlReaderException;
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* @param rootHandler the root handler.
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* @param tagName the tag name.
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public void init(RootXmlReadHandler rootHandler, String tagName);