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/*
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* Copyright (C) 2009-2010, Google, International Business Machines Corporation *
* and others. All Rights Reserved. *
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*/
package com.ibm.icu.text;
/**
* Provide an interface for Transforms that focuses just on the transformation of the text.
* APIs that take Transliterator or StringTransform, but only depend on the transformation should use this interface in the API instead.
*
* @author markdavis
* @stable ICU 4.4
*/
public interface Transform {
/**
* Transform the input in some way, to be determined by the subclass.
* @param source to be transformed (eg lowercased)
* @return result
* @stable ICU 4.4
*/
public D transform(S source);
}