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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 $Id$ |
| */ |
| 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; |
| } |
