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A lib to access XML via XPath
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/*
 * $Header: /cvs/jaxen/jaxen/src/java/main/org/jaxen/saxpath/XPathReader.java,v 1.6 2006/02/05 21:47:42 elharo Exp $
 * $Revision: 1.6 $
 * $Date: 2006/02/05 21:47:42 $
 *
 * ====================================================================
 *
 * Copyright 2000-2002 bob mcwhirter & James Strachan.
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 * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many
 * individuals on behalf of the Jaxen Project and was originally
 * created by bob mcwhirter  and
 * James Strachan .  For more information on the
 * Jaxen Project, please see .
 *
 * $Id: XPathReader.java,v 1.6 2006/02/05 21:47:42 elharo Exp $
 */


package org.navimatrix.jaxen.saxpath;


/** Interface for readers which can parse textual
 *  XPath expressions, and produce callbacks to
 *  {@link org.navimatrix.jaxen.saxpath.XPathHandler} objects.
 *
 *  @author bob mcwhirter ([email protected])
 */
public interface XPathReader extends SAXPathEventSource
{
    /** Parse an XPath expression,
     *  and send event callbacks to an {@link org.navimatrix.jaxen.saxpath.XPathHandler}.
     *
     *  @param xpath the textual XPath expression to parse
     *
     *  @throws SAXPathException if the expression is syntactically incorrect
     */
    void parse(String xpath) throws SAXPathException;
}