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16 */
17 package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml;
18
19 import java.io.InputStream;
20
21 /**
22 * Common interface for XML parsers. We are not using JAXP because
23 * some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant.
24 *
25 * @author Dmitri Plotnikov
26 * @version $Revision: 652845 $ $Date: 2008-05-02 19:46:46 +0200 (Fr, 02 Mai 2008) $
27 */
28 public interface XMLParser {
29
30 /**
31 * Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model,
32 * which is not necessarily DOM.
33 * @param stream InputStream
34 * @return Object
35 */
36 Object parseXML(InputStream stream);
37 }