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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.fonts;

import javax.xml.transform.Source;

/**
 * This interface is used to resolve absolute and relative font URIs.
 */
public interface FontResolver {

    /**
     * Called to resolve an URI to a Source instance. The base URI needed by the URIResolver's
     * resolve() method is defined to be implicitly available in this case. If the URI cannot
     * be resolved, null is returned and it is assumed that the FontResolver implementation
     * already warned the user about the problem.
     * @param href An href attribute, which may be relative or absolute.
     * @return A Source object, or null if the href could not resolved.
     */
    Source resolve(String href);

    /**
     * Check whether complex script features are enabled.
     * @return true if FOP is to use complex script features
     */
    boolean isComplexScriptFeaturesEnabled();

}