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+/*
+ * reserved comment block
+ * DO NOT REMOVE OR ALTER!
+ */
+/*
+ * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+/*
+ * $Id: XPathFactory.java,v 1.1.2.1 2005/08/01 01:30:14 jeffsuttor Exp $
+ */
+package com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator;
+
+import com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.utils.PrefixResolver;
+
+/**
+ * Factory class for creating an XPath. Implementors of XPath derivatives
+ * will need to make a derived class of this.
+ * @xsl.usage advanced
+ */
+public interface XPathFactory
+{
+
+ /**
+ * Create an XPath.
+ *
+ * @param exprString The XPath expression string.
+ * @param locator The location of the expression string, mainly for diagnostic
+ * purposes.
+ * @param prefixResolver This will be called in order to resolve prefixes
+ * to namespace URIs.
+ * @param type One of {@link com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.XPath#SELECT} or
+ * {@link com.sun.org.apache.xpath.internal.XPath#MATCH}.
+ *
+ * @return an XPath ready for execution.
+ */
+ XPath create(String exprString, SourceLocator locator,
+ PrefixResolver prefixResolver, int type);
+}