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package org.apache.maven.model.path;
/**
* Normalizes a URL to remove the ugly parent references "../" that got potentially inserted by URL adjustment during
* model inheritance.
*
* @author Benjamin Bentmann
*/
public interface UrlNormalizer {
/**
* Normalizes the specified URL.
*
* @param url The URL to normalize, may be {@code null}.
* @return The normalized URL or {@code null} if the input was {@code null}.
*/
String normalize(String url);
}