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package org.dom4j;
/**
* ElementHandler interface defines a handler of
* Element objects. It is used primarily in event based
* processing models such as for processing large XML documents as they are
* being parsed rather than waiting until the whole document is parsed.
*
* @author James Strachan
* @version $Revision: 1.8 $
*/
public interface ElementHandler {
/**
* Called by an event based processor when an elements openning tag is
* encountered.
*
* @param elementPath
* is the current ElementPath to process
*/
void onStart(ElementPath elementPath);
/**
* Called by an event based processor when an elements closing tag is
* encountered.
*
* @param elementPath
* is the current ElementPath to process
*/
void onEnd(ElementPath elementPath);
}
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