/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2008 Standards for Technology in Automotive Retail
 * 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:
 *     David Carver - STAR - bug 224197 - initial API and implementation
 *                    based on work from Apache Xalan 2.7.0
 *******************************************************************************/
/*
 * 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
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 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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/*
 * $Id: TransformerClient.java,v 1.2 2008/03/28 02:38:16 dacarver Exp $
 */
package org.eclipse.wst.xsl.core.internal.compiler.xslt10.transformer;

/**
 * A content handler can get a reference to a TransformState by implementing the
 * TransformerClient interface. Xalan will check for that interface before it
 * calls startDocument, and, if it is implemented, pass in a TransformState
 * reference to the setTransformState method.
 */
public interface TransformerClient {

	/**
	 * Pass in a reference to a TransformState object, which can be used during
	 * SAX ContentHandler events to obtain information about he state of the
	 * transformation. This method will be called before each startDocument
	 * event.
	 * 
	 * @param ts
	 *            A reference to a TransformState object
	 */
	public void setTransformState(TransformState ts);
}