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 *
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/*
 * $Id: SourceLoader.java,v 1.3 2004/02/16 22:24:29 minchau Exp $
 */

package org.apache.xalan.xsltc.compiler;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

/**
 * @author Morten Jorgensen
 */
public interface SourceLoader {

    /**
     * This interface is used to plug external document loaders into XSLTC
     * (used with the <xsl:include> and <xsl:import> elements.
     *
     * @param href The URI of the document to load
     * @param context The URI of the currently loaded document
     * @param xsltc The compiler that resuests the document
     * @return An InputSource with the loaded document
     */
    public InputSource loadSource(String href, String context, XSLTC xsltc);

}