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+/*
+ * Copyright 2000-2005 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Sun designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Sun in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Sun Microsystems, Inc., 4150 Network Circle, Santa Clara,
+ * CA 95054 USA or visit www.sun.com if you need additional information or
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+ */
+
+package javax.xml.transform;
+
+import java.util.Properties;
+
+
+
+
+/**
+ * An object that implements this interface is the runtime representation of processed
+ * transformation instructions.
+ *
+ * <p>Templates must be threadsafe for a given instance
+ * over multiple threads running concurrently, and may
+ * be used multiple times in a given session.</p>
+ */
+public interface Templates {
+
+    /**
+     * Create a new transformation context for this Templates object.
+     *
+     * @return A valid non-null instance of a Transformer.
+     *
+     * @throws TransformerConfigurationException if a Transformer can not be created.
+     */
+    Transformer newTransformer() throws TransformerConfigurationException;
+
+    /**
+     * Get the properties corresponding to the effective xsl:output element.
+     * The object returned will
+     * be a clone of the internal values. Accordingly, it can be mutated
+     * without mutating the Templates object, and then handed in to
+     * {@link javax.xml.transform.Transformer#setOutputProperties}.
+     *
+     * <p>The properties returned should contain properties set by the stylesheet,
+     * and these properties are "defaulted" by default properties specified by
+     * <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#output">section 16 of the
+     * XSL Transformations (XSLT) W3C Recommendation</a>.  The properties that
+     * were specifically set by the stylesheet should be in the base
+     * Properties list, while the XSLT default properties that were not
+     * specifically set should be in the "default" Properties list.  Thus,
+     * getOutputProperties().getProperty(String key) will obtain any
+     * property in that was set by the stylesheet, <em>or</em> the default
+     * properties, while
+     * getOutputProperties().get(String key) will only retrieve properties
+     * that were explicitly set in the stylesheet.</p>
+     *
+     * <p>For XSLT,
+     * <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#attribute-value-templates">Attribute
+     * Value Templates</a> attribute values will
+     * be returned unexpanded (since there is no context at this point).  The
+     * namespace prefixes inside Attribute Value Templates will be unexpanded,
+     * so that they remain valid XPath values.</p>
+     *
+     * @return A Properties object, never null.
+     */
+    Properties getOutputProperties();
+}