001 /* 002 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more 003 * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with 004 * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. 005 * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 006 * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with 007 * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 008 * 009 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 010 * 011 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 012 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 013 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 014 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 015 * limitations under the License. 016 */ 017 package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml; 018 019 import java.io.InputStream; 020 021 /** 022 * Common interface for XML parsers. We are not using JAXP because 023 * some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant. 024 * 025 * @author Dmitri Plotnikov 026 * @version $Revision: 652845 $ $Date: 2008-05-02 12:46:46 -0500 (Fri, 02 May 2008) $ 027 */ 028 public interface XMLParser { 029 030 /** 031 * Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model, 032 * which is not necessarily DOM. 033 * @param stream InputStream 034 * @return Object 035 */ 036 Object parseXML(InputStream stream); 037 }