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package org.apache.vysper.xml.decoder;

import java.util.List;

import org.apache.vysper.xml.fragment.AbstractXMLElementBuilder;
import org.apache.vysper.xml.fragment.Attribute;
import org.apache.vysper.xml.fragment.XMLElementBuilder;
import org.apache.vysper.xml.fragment.XMLFragment;


/**
 * Factory for creating {@link XMLElementBuilder} instances
 * @author The Apache MINA Project (dev@mina.apache.org)
 */
public class XMLElementBuilderFactory {

	/**
	 * Create a {@link XMLElementBuilder}
	 * @param elementName The element local name
	 * @param namespaceURI The element namespace URI
	 * @param namespacePrefix The element namespace prefix, or null if namespace should be default
	 * @param attributes The element attributes or null if no attributes
	 * @param innerFragments The element inner fragments or null if no inner fragments 
	 * @return
	 */
	public AbstractXMLElementBuilder<?, ?> createBuilder(String elementName, String namespaceURI, String namespacePrefix, List<Attribute> attributes, List<XMLFragment> innerFragments) {
		return new XMLElementBuilder(elementName, namespaceURI, namespacePrefix, attributes, innerFragments);
	}
}