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017 package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml;
018
019 import 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 12:46:46 -0500 (Fri, 02 May 2008) $
027 */
028 public 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 }