1 /*
2 * Copyright 2005 Werner Guttmann
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 *
16 * $Id$
17 */
18
19 package org.exolab.castor.xml;
20
21 import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
22
23 /**
24 * A interface which abstracts anything which can produce SAX 2 events.
25 * This allows any EventProducer to be used with the Unmarshaller.
26 * @author <a href="mailto:werner DOT guttmann AT gmx DOT net">Werner Guttmann</a>
27 * @version $Revision$ $Date: 2006-02-22 09:05:40 -0700 (Wed, 22 Feb 2006) $
28 * @since 1.0M3
29 **/
30 public interface SAX2EventProducer {
31
32 /**
33 * Sets the SAX2 ContentHandler to send SAX 2 events to
34 */
35 public void setContentHandler(ContentHandler contentHandler);
36
37 /**
38 * Signals to start producing events.
39 */
40 public void start() throws org.xml.sax.SAXException;
41
42 }