- /*
- * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
- /*
- * $Id: XMLStringFactory.java,v 1.4 2004/02/17 04:21:14 minchau Exp $
- */
- package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.utils;
-
- /**
- * A concrete class that implements this interface creates XMLString objects.
- */
- public abstract class XMLStringFactory
- {
-
- /**
- * Create a new XMLString from a Java string.
- *
- *
- * @param string Java String reference, which must be non-null.
- *
- * @return An XMLString object that wraps the String reference.
- */
- public abstract XMLString newstr(String string);
-
- /**
- * Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer.
- *
- *
- * @param string FastStringBuffer reference, which must be non-null.
- * @param start The start position in the array.
- * @param length The number of characters to read from the array.
- *
- * @return An XMLString object that wraps the FastStringBuffer reference.
- */
- public abstract XMLString newstr(FastStringBuffer string, int start,
- int length);
-
- /**
- * Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer.
- *
- *
- * @param string FastStringBuffer reference, which must be non-null.
- * @param start The start position in the array.
- * @param length The number of characters to read from the array.
- *
- * @return An XMLString object that wraps the FastStringBuffer reference.
- */
- public abstract XMLString newstr(char[] string, int start,
- int length);
-
- /**
- * Get a cheap representation of an empty string.
- *
- * @return An non-null reference to an XMLString that represents "".
- */
- public abstract XMLString emptystr();
- }