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 *
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package org.apache.commons.jelly.impl;

import org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyException;
import org.apache.commons.jelly.Tag;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;

/**
 * <p><code>DefaultTagFactory</code> a default implementation of TagFactory
 * which creates new instances of a given class.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a>
 * @version $Revision: 1.16 $
 */
public class DefaultTagFactory implements TagFactory {

    private Class tagClass;

    public DefaultTagFactory() {
    }

    public DefaultTagFactory(Class tagClass) {
        this.tagClass = tagClass;
    }

    // TagFactory interface
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------
    public Tag createTag(String name, Attributes attributes) throws JellyException {
        try {
          return (Tag) tagClass.newInstance();
        } catch (InstantiationException e) {
            throw new JellyException(e.toString());
        } catch (IllegalAccessException e) {
            throw new JellyException(e.toString());
        }
    }


    // Properties
    //-------------------------------------------------------------------------

    /**
     * Returns the tagClass.
     * @return Class
     */
    public Class getTagClass() {
        return tagClass;
    }

    /**
     * Sets the tagClass.
     * @param tagClass The tagClass to set
     */
    public void setTagClass(Class tagClass) {
        this.tagClass = tagClass;
    }

}