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package org.springframework.beans.factory.xml;
import org.w3c.dom.Document;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionReader;
import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
/**
* Strategy interface for parsing XML bean definitions.
* Used by XmlBeanDefinitionReader for actually parsing a DOM document.
*
* Instantiated per document to parse: Implementations can hold
* state in instance variables during the execution of the
* registerBeanDefinitions
method, for example global
* settings that are defined for all bean definitions in the document.
*
* @author Juergen Hoeller
* @since 18.12.2003
* @deprecated as of Spring 2.0: superseded by BeanDefinitionDocumentReader
* @see BeanDefinitionDocumentReader
* @see XmlBeanDefinitionReader#setParserClass
*/
public interface XmlBeanDefinitionParser {
/**
* Parse bean definitions from the given DOM document,
* and register them with the given bean factory.
* @param reader the bean definition reader, containing the bean factory
* to work on and the bean class loader to use. Can also be used to load
* further bean definition files referenced by the given document.
* @param doc the DOM document
* @param resource descriptor of the original XML resource
* (useful for displaying parse errors)
* @return the number of bean definitions found
* @throws BeanDefinitionStoreException in case of parsing errors
*/
int registerBeanDefinitions(BeanDefinitionReader reader, Document doc, Resource resource)
throws BeanDefinitionStoreException;
}