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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 DomElement} objects.
 *
 * @author Christian Sell
 * @author Ahmed Ashour
 */
public interface ElementFactory {

    /**
     * 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 {@code null}
     *        if no attributes specified
     * @return the newly created and initialized element
     */
    DomElement createElement(SgmlPage page, String tagName, 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 {@code null}
     *        if no attributes specified
     * @return the newly created and initialized element
     */
    DomElement createElementNS(SgmlPage page, String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, 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 {@code null}
     *        if no attributes specified
     * @param checkBrowserCompatibility if true and the page doesn't support this element, return null
     * @return the newly created and initialized element
     */
    DomElement createElementNS(SgmlPage page, String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, Attributes attributes,
            boolean checkBrowserCompatibility);
}