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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.
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package org.apache.cocoon.components.language.markup;
import org.apache.excalibur.source.Source;
import org.apache.cocoon.xml.AbstractXMLPipe;
/**
* This interfaces defines the functionality of a source code generator
*
* @author <a href="mailto:ricardo@apache.org">Ricardo Rocha</a>
* @author <a href="mailto:vgritsenko@apache.org">Vadim Gritsenko</a>
* @version CVS $Id: MarkupCodeGenerator.java,v 1.3 2004/03/05 13:02:47 bdelacretaz Exp $
*/
public interface MarkupCodeGenerator {
/**
* Generate source code from the given markup source.
* Start and end specify SAX pre processing pipeline.
*
* @param source The source of the markup program
* @param filter Pre-processing SAX filter
* @return The generated source code
* @exception Exception If an error occurs during code generation
*/
String generateCode(Source source, AbstractXMLPipe filter)
throws Exception;
}