1 /*
2 * Copyright 2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
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 package org.apache.commons.jelly.impl;
17
18 import org.apache.commons.jelly.JellyException;
19 import org.apache.commons.jelly.Tag;
20
21 import org.xml.sax.Attributes;
22
23 /***
24 * <p><code>TagFactory</code> represents a Factory of {@link Tag} instances.</p>
25 *
26 * <b>Note</b> that this class should be re-entrant and used
27 * concurrently by multiple threads.
28 *
29 * @author <a href="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan</a>
30 * @version $Revision: 155420 $
31 */
32 public interface TagFactory {
33
34 /***
35 * Creates a Tag for the given local name and the SAX attributes
36 */
37 public Tag createTag(String name, Attributes attributes) throws JellyException;
38 }