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Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 is a fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 processor. A partial experimental implementation of the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes Working Drafts (December 2009) and an experimental implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010) are provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use.

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package org.apache.xerces.xni.parser;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.xerces.xni.XNIException;

/**
 * Represents a parser configuration that can be used as the 
 * configuration for a "pull" parser. A pull parser allows the
 * application to drive the parser instead of having document
 * information events "pushed" to the registered handlers.
 * 
 * A pull parser using this type of configuration first calls
 * the setInputSource method. After the input
 * source is set, the pull parser repeatedly calls the
 * parse(boolean):boolean method. This method 
 * returns a value of true if there is more to parse in the
 * document.
 * 
 * Calling the parse(XMLInputSource) is equivalent
 * to setting the input source and calling the 
 * parse(boolean):boolean method with a "complete" 
 * value of true.
 *
 * @author Andy Clark, IBM
 *
 * @version $Id: XMLPullParserConfiguration.java 447244 2006-09-18 05:20:40Z mrglavas $
 */
public interface XMLPullParserConfiguration
    extends XMLParserConfiguration {

    //
    // XMLPullParserConfiguration methods
    //

    // parsing

    /**
     * Sets the input source for the document to parse.
     *
     * @param inputSource The document's input source.
     *
     * @exception XMLConfigurationException Thrown if there is a 
     *                        configuration error when initializing the
     *                        parser.
     * @exception IOException Thrown on I/O error.
     *
     * @see #parse(boolean)
     */
    public void setInputSource(XMLInputSource inputSource)
        throws XMLConfigurationException, IOException;

    /**
     * Parses the document in a pull parsing fashion.
     *
     * @param complete True if the pull parser should parse the
     *                 remaining document completely.
     *
     * @return True if there is more document to parse.
     *
     * @exception XNIException Any XNI exception, possibly wrapping 
     *                         another exception.
     * @exception IOException  An IO exception from the parser, possibly
     *                         from a byte stream or character stream
     *                         supplied by the parser.
     *
     * @see #setInputSource
     */
    public boolean parse(boolean complete) throws XNIException, IOException;

    /**
     * If the application decides to terminate parsing before the xml document
     * is fully parsed, the application should call this method to free any
     * resource allocated during parsing. For example, close all opened streams.
     */
    public void cleanup();
    
} // interface XMLPullParserConfiguration