org.springframework.webflow.engine.model.builder.xml

Interface DocumentLoader

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultDocumentLoader

public interface DocumentLoader

A generic strategy interface encapsulating the logic to load an XML-based document.

Author:

Keith Donald

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
org.w3c.dom.Document	loadDocument(org.springframework.core.io.Resource resource) Load the XML-based document from the external resource.

Method Detail

loadDocument

org.w3c.dom.Document loadDocument(org.springframework.core.io.Resource resource)
                                  throws java.io.IOException,
                                         javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException,
                                         org.xml.sax.SAXException

Load the XML-based document from the external resource.

Parameters:

resource - the document resource

Returns:

the loaded (parsed) document

Throws:

java.io.IOException - an exception occured accessing the resource input stream

javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException - an exception occured building the document parser

org.xml.sax.SAXException - a error occured during document parsing