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/* * Copyright (c) 2009, Oracle and/or its affiliates. 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. Oracle designates this * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided * by Oracle 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 Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA * or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any * questions. */ package javax.xml.stream; /** * This interface declares a simple filter interface that one can * create to filter XMLStreamReaders * @version 1.0 * @author Copyright (c) 2009 by Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved. * @since 1.6 */ public interface StreamFilter { /** * Tests whether the current state is part of this stream. This method * will return true if this filter accepts this event and false otherwise. * * The method should not change the state of the reader when accepting * a state. * * @param reader the event to test * @return true if this filter accepts this event, false otherwise */ public boolean accept(XMLStreamReader reader); }