package net.sf.saxon;
import net.sf.saxon.trans.XPathException;

import javax.xml.transform.Source;


/**
 * This interface defines a SourceResolver. A SourceResolver can be registered as
 * part of the Configuration, and enables new kinds of Source to be recognized
 * beyond those that are natively recognized by Saxon.
 * <p>
 * The task of the SourceResolver is to take any Source as input, and to return
 * a Source that has native support in Saxon: that is, one of the classes
 * StreamSource, SAXSource, DOMSource, {@link net.sf.saxon.om.NodeInfo},
 * or {@link net.sf.saxon.pull.PullSource}
 * @author Michael H. Kay
*/

public interface SourceResolver {

    /**
     * Resolve a Source.
     * @param source A source object, typically the source supplied as the first
     * argument to {@link javax.xml.transform.Transformer#transform(javax.xml.transform.Source, javax.xml.transform.Result)}
     * or similar methods.
     * @param config The Configuration. This provides the SourceResolver with access to
     * configuration information; it also allows the SourceResolver to invoke the
     * resolveSource() method on the Configuration object as a fallback implementation.
     * @return a source object that Saxon knows how to process. This must be an instance of one
     * of the classes  StreamSource, SAXSource, DOMSource, {@link net.sf.saxon.AugmentedSource},
     *  {@link net.sf.saxon.om.NodeInfo},
     * or {@link net.sf.saxon.pull.PullSource}. Return null if the Source object is not
     * recognized
     * @throws XPathException if the Source object is recognized but cannot be processed
    */

    public Source resolveSource(Source source, Configuration config) throws XPathException;

}





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