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package jakarta.faces.view.facelets;

import java.io.IOException;

import jakarta.faces.component.UIComponent;

/**
 * 
 * This is the root class for markup elements in Facelets VDL. Facelets is XHTML, and XHTML is XML, and the root unit of
 * abstraction in XML is the element. A FaceletHandler instance represents an XML element at runtime. Two
 * direct implementations exist to embody the contract for more specific behavior.
 * 
 *
 * 
 *
 * 
 *
 * {@link CompositeFaceletHandler}
 *
 * A container for other FaceletHandlers
 *
 * {@link TagHandler}
 *
 * The foundation class for FaceletHandlers associated with markup in a Facelet document.
 *
 * 
 *
 * 
 *
 * @since 2.0
 */
public interface FaceletHandler {

    /**
     * 
     * Process changes on a particular UIComponent
     * 
     *
     * @param ctx the current FaceletContext instance for this execution
     * @param parent the parent UIComponent to operate upon
     *
     * @throws IOException if unable to load relativePath
     *
     * @throws FaceletException if unable to parse the markup loaded from relativePath
     *
     * @throws jakarta.faces.FacesException if unable to create child UIComponent instances
     *
     * @throws jakarta.el.ELException if any of the expressions in the markup loaded from relativePath fail
     *
     * @since 2.0
     *
     */
    void apply(FaceletContext ctx, UIComponent parent) throws IOException;
}