package com.icl.saxon.style;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerConfigurationException;

/**
  * Interface ExtensionElementFactory. <br>
  * A "Factory" for used-defined nodes in the stylesheet tree. <br>
  * (Actually, it's not struictly a factory: it doesn't create the nodes,
  * it merely identifies what class they should be.
  */

public interface ExtensionElementFactory  {

    /**
    * Identify the class to be used for stylesheet elements with a given local name.
    * The returned class must extend com.icl.saxon.style.StyleElement
    * @return null if the local name is not a recognised element type in this
    * namespace.
    */

    public Class getExtensionClass(String localname);

}

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