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017package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml;
018
019import java.io.InputStream;
020
021/**
022 * Common interface for XML parsers.  We are not using JAXP because
023 * some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant.
024 *
025 * @author Dmitri Plotnikov
026 * @version $Revision: 652845 $ $Date: 2008-05-02 19:46:46 +0200 (Fr, 02 Mai 2008) $
027 */
028public interface XMLParser {
029
030    /**
031     * Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model,
032     * which is not necessarily DOM.
033     * @param stream InputStream
034     * @return Object
035     */
036    Object parseXML(InputStream stream);
037}