src/java/org/apache/nutch/parse/HtmlParseFilter.java

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package org.apache.nutch.parse;

import org.w3c.dom.DocumentFragment;

import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configurable;

import org.apache.nutch.plugin.Pluggable;
import org.apache.nutch.protocol.Content;

/**
 * Extension point for DOM-based HTML parsers. Permits one to add additional
 * metadata to HTML parses. All plugins found which implement this extension
 * point are run sequentially on the parse.
 */
public interface HtmlParseFilter extends Pluggable, Configurable {
  /** The name of the extension point. */
  final static String X_POINT_ID = HtmlParseFilter.class.getName();

  /**
   * Adds metadata or otherwise modifies a parse of HTML content, given the DOM
   * tree of a page.
   */
  ParseResult filter(Content content, ParseResult parseResult,
      HTMLMetaTags metaTags, DocumentFragment doc);
}