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/*
* Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
*
* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
* You may obtain a copy of the License at
*
* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*
* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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*/
package org.apache.cocoon.woody.datatype;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
/**
* Interface for classes that can build ValidationRules from an XML description.
* A ValidationRuleBuilder can be Composable.
* A ValidationRuleBuilder should be thread safe, only one instance of it
* will be created.
*
* @version $Id: ValidationRuleBuilder.java,v 1.3 2004/03/05 13:02:28 bdelacretaz Exp $
*/
public interface ValidationRuleBuilder {
public ValidationRule build(Element validationRuleElement) throws Exception;
}