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The XMLDocumentScanner.java Java example source code

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package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.parser;

import java.io.IOException;
import com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.XNIException;

/**
 * This interface defines a generic document scanner. This interface
 * allows a scanner to be used interchangably in existing parser
 * configurations.
 * <p>
 * If the parser configuration uses a document scanner that implements
 * this interface, components should be able to query the scanner
 * instance from the component manager using the following property
 * identifier:
 * <blockquote>
 *  "http://apache.org/xml/properties/internal/document-scanner"
 * </blockquote>
 *
 * @author Andy Clark, IBM
 *
 */
public interface XMLDocumentScanner
    extends XMLDocumentSource {

    //
    // XMLDocumentScanner methods
    //

    /**
     * Sets the input source.
     *
     * @param inputSource The input source.
     *
     * @throws IOException Thrown on i/o error.
     */
    public void setInputSource(XMLInputSource inputSource) throws IOException;

    /**
     * Scans a document.
     *
     * @param complete True if the scanner should scan the document
     *                 completely, pushing all events to the registered
     *                 document handler. A value of false indicates that
     *                 that the scanner should only scan the next portion
     *                 of the document and return. A scanner instance is
     *                 permitted to completely scan a document if it does
     *                 not support this "pull" scanning model.
     *
     * @return True if there is more to scan, false otherwise.
     */
    public boolean scanDocument(boolean complete)
        throws IOException, XNIException;

    public int next() throws XNIException, IOException;
} // interface XMLDocumentScanner