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package org.netbeans.editor.ext;

/**
* Formatting layer that can be added to BaseFormatter
* to format the tokens.
*
* @author Miloslav Metelka
* @version 1.00
*/

public interface FormatLayer {

    /** Get the name of the layer. This name is used to identify
    * the layer when it's being removed or replaced and it can
    * be used for debugging purposes too.
    */
    public String getName();

    /** Format the tokens begining with the firstItem till the end.
    * @param fw format-writer to be formatted. The format-layer
    *  will usually create the format-support as an abstraction
    *  level over the format-layer.
    */
    public void format(FormatWriter fw);

}