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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