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16 */
17
18 package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml;
19
20 import java.io.InputStream;
21
22 /**
23 * Common interface for XML parsers. We are not using JAXP because some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant.
24 */
25 public interface XMLParser {
26
27 /**
28 * Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model, which is not necessarily DOM.
29 *
30 * @param stream InputStream
31 * @return Object
32 */
33 Object parseXML(InputStream stream);
34 }