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package org.jdom2.input.sax;

import org.jdom2.JDOMFactory;

/**
 * Provides SAXBuilder with SAXHandler instances to support SAX parsing. Users
 * wanting to customise the way that JDOM processes the SAX events should
 * override the {@link SAXHandler} class, and then use an implementation of this
 * factory to feed instances of that new class to SAXBuilder.
 * 
 * @see SAXHandler
 * @see org.jdom2.input.sax
 * @author Rolf Lear
 */
public interface SAXHandlerFactory {
    /**
     * Create a new SAXHandler instance for SAXBuilder to use.
     * 
     * @param factory
     *        The {@link JDOMFactory} to use for creating JDOM content.
     * @return a new instance of a SAXHandler (or subclass) class.
     */
    public SAXHandler createSAXHandler(JDOMFactory factory);
}