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package org.apache.xerces.impl;

import org.apache.xerces.xni.XMLResourceIdentifier;
import org.apache.xerces.xni.XNIException;

/**
 * The entity handler interface defines methods to report information
 * about the start and end of entities.
 *
 * @see org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLEntityScanner
 *
 * @author Andy Clark, IBM
 *
 * @version $Id: XMLEntityHandler.java,v 1.7 2003/05/08 20:11:54 elena Exp $
 */
public interface XMLEntityHandler {

    //
    // XMLEntityHandler methods
    //

    /**
     * This method notifies of the start of an entity. The DTD has the 
     * pseudo-name of "[dtd]" parameter entity names start with '%'; and 
     * general entities are just specified by their name.
     * 
     * @param name     The name of the entity.
     * @param identifier The resource identifier.
     * @param encoding The auto-detected IANA encoding name of the entity
     *                 stream. This value will be null in those situations
     *                 where the entity encoding is not auto-detected (e.g.
     *                 internal entities or a document entity that is
     *                 parsed from a java.io.Reader).
     *
     * @throws XNIException Thrown by handler to signal an error.
     */
    public void startEntity(String name, 
                            XMLResourceIdentifier identifier,
                            String encoding) throws XNIException;

    /**
     * This method notifies the end of an entity. The DTD has the pseudo-name
     * of "[dtd]" parameter entity names start with '%'; and general entities 
     * are just specified by their name.
     * 
     * @param name The name of the entity.
     *
     * @throws XNIException Thrown by handler to signal an error.
     */
    public void endEntity(String name) throws XNIException;

} // interface XMLEntityHandler
