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 * Copyright (c) 2002-2011 Gargoyle Software Inc.
 *
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package com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.html;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;

import com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.SgmlPage;

/**
 * Specification of a factory capable of creating {@link HtmlElement} objects.
 *
 * @version $Revision: 6204 $
 * @author Christian Sell
 * @author Ahmed Ashour
 */
public interface IElementFactory {
    /**
     * Creates an element according to this factory's specification. Note that even though this method
     * takes a page parameter, the element is not automatically added to the page's DOM tree.
     *
     * @param page the enclosing page for the new element
     * @param tagName the tag name (most factories will be responsible for a specific tag, but this
     *        parameter is passed in for factories that don't follow this rule)
     * @param attributes the attributes encountered during XML/HTML parsing (possibly null
     *        if no attributes specified
     * @return the newly created and initialized element
     */
    HtmlElement createElement(final SgmlPage page, final String tagName, final Attributes attributes);

    /**
     * Creates an element according to this factory's specification. Note that even though this method
     * takes a page parameter, the element is not automatically added to the page's DOM tree.
     *
     * @param page the enclosing page for the new element
     * @param namespaceURI the URI that identifies an XML namespace
     * @param qualifiedName the qualified name of the element type to instantiate
     * @param attributes the attributes encountered during XML/HTML parsing (possibly null
     *        if no attributes specified
     * @return the newly created and initialized element
     */
    HtmlElement createElementNS(final SgmlPage page, final String namespaceURI, final String qualifiedName,
        final Attributes attributes);
}