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package org.apache.tika.parser.html;

/**
 * HTML mapper used to make incoming HTML documents easier to handle by
 * Tika clients. The {@link HtmlParser} looks up an optional HTML mapper from
 * the parse context and uses it to map parsed HTML to "safe" XHTML. A client
 * that wants to customize this mapping can place a custom HtmlMapper instance
 * into the parse context.
 *
 * @since Apache Tika 0.6
 */
public interface HtmlMapper {

    /**
     * Maps "safe" HTML element names to semantic XHTML equivalents. If the
     * given element is unknown or deemed unsafe for inclusion in the parse
     * output, then this method returns null and the element
     * will be ignored but the content inside it is still processed. See
     * the {@link #isDiscardElement(String)} method for a way to discard
     * the entire contents of an element.
     *
     * @param name HTML element name (upper case)
     * @return XHTML element name (lower case), or
     * null if the element is unsafe
     */
    String mapSafeElement(String name);

    /**
     * Checks whether all content within the given HTML element should be
     * discarded instead of including it in the parse output.
     *
     * @param name HTML element name (upper case)
     * @return true if content inside the named element
     * should be ignored, false otherwise
     */
    boolean isDiscardElement(String name);


    /**
     * Maps "safe" HTML attribute names to semantic XHTML equivalents. If the
     * given attribute is unknown or deemed unsafe for inclusion in the parse
     * output, then this method returns null and the attribute
     * will be ignored. This method assumes that the element name
     * is valid and normalised.
     *
     * @param elementName   HTML element name (lower case)
     * @param attributeName HTML attribute name (lower case)
     * @return XHTML attribute name (lower case), or
     * null if the element is unsafe
     */
    String mapSafeAttribute(String elementName, String attributeName);

}