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// Copyright (c) 2005, 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
// All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
// are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
// which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
// http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
//
// Contributors:
// IBM Corporation - initial implementation
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
package org.eclipse.epf.library.edit.util;
import java.util.Map;
import org.eclipse.emf.ecore.EObject;
/**
* Instance of this class can scan text and replaces textual references to the
* old objects with references to new objects
*
* @author Phong Nguyen Le - Jun 22, 2006
* @since 1.0
*/
public interface ITextReferenceReplacer {
/**
* Replaces textual references to the old objects with references to new
* objects provided in the <code>oldToNewObjectMap</code>
*
* @param text
* @param owner
* the owner of the text
* @param oldToNewObjectMap
* @return
*/
String replace(String text, EObject owner, Map oldToNewObjectMap);
}