src/java/org/apache/commons/jxpath/xml/XMLParser.java

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package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml;

import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Common interface for XML parsers.  We are not using JAXP because
 * some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant.
 *
 * @author Dmitri Plotnikov
 * @version $Revision$ $Date$
 */
public interface XMLParser {

    /**
     * Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model,
     * which is not necessarily DOM.
     * @param stream InputStream
     * @return Object
     */
    Object parseXML(InputStream stream);
}