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 * Copyright (c) 2006 The Apache Software Foundation
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package org.apache.qpid.gentools;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * @author kpvdr
 * Interface allowing the addition of elements from a node in the
 * DOM of the AMQP specification. It is used by each of the model
 * elements in a recursive fashion to build the model.
 */
public interface NodeAware
{
	/**
	 * Add a model element from the current DOM node. All model elements must implement
	 * this interface. If the node contains children that are also a part of the model,
	 * then this method is called on new instances of those model elements.
	 * @param n Node from which the current model element is to be added.
	 * @param o Ordinal value of the current model elemet.
	 * @param v Verion of the DOM from which the node comes.
	 * @throws AmqpParseException
	 * @throws AmqpTypeMappingException
	 */
	public void addFromNode(Node n, int o, AmqpVersion v)
		throws AmqpParseException, AmqpTypeMappingException;
}
