1 package org.apache.commons.digester3; 2 3 /* 4 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 5 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 6 * distributed with this work for additional information 7 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 8 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 9 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 10 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 11 * 12 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 13 * 14 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 15 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 16 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 17 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 18 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 19 * under the License. 20 */ 21 22 import org.xml.sax.Attributes; 23 24 /** 25 * Defines a functor interface implemented by classes that perform a predicate test 26 * 27 * @since 3.0 28 */ 29 public interface RuleMatcher 30 { 31 32 /** 33 * Use the specified parameter to perform a test. 34 * 35 * @param namespace the namespace URI of the matching element, or an empty string if the parser is not namespace 36 * aware or the element has no namespace 37 * @param pattern Nesting pattern to be matched for this Rule 38 * @param name the local name if the parser is namespace aware, or just the element name otherwise 39 * @param attributes The attribute list of this element 40 * @return true, if the test succeeds, false otherwise 41 */ 42 boolean match( String namespace, String pattern, String name, Attributes attributes ); 43 44 }