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package org.springframework.webflow.engine.builder.xml;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
/**
* A generic strategy interface encapsulating the logic to load an XML-based document.
*
* @author Keith Donald
*/
public interface DocumentLoader {
/**
* Load the XML-based document from the external resource.
* @param resource the document resource
* @return the loaded (parsed) document
* @throws IOException an exception occured accessing the resource input stream
* @throws ParserConfigurationException an exception occured building the document parser
* @throws SAXException a error occured during document parsing
*/
public Document loadDocument(Resource resource) throws IOException, ParserConfigurationException, SAXException;
}