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diff --git a/xmerge/source/xmerge/java/org/openoffice/xmerge/DocumentMergerFactory.java b/xmerge/source/xmerge/java/org/openoffice/xmerge/DocumentMergerFactory.java new file mode 100644 index 000000000..e665d662a --- /dev/null +++ b/xmerge/source/xmerge/java/org/openoffice/xmerge/DocumentMergerFactory.java @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +/* + * This file is part of the LibreOffice project. + * + * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public + * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this + * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. + * + * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice: + * + * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more + * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed + * with this work for additional information regarding copyright + * ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you 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 . + */ + +package org.openoffice.xmerge; + +/** + * All plug-in implementations of the {@code PluginFactory} interface that also + * support merging must also implement this interface. + * + * <p>Merge is useful when an {@code OfficeDocument} is converted to a + * "Device" {@code Document} format, and the "Device" + * {@code Document} version is modified.</p> + * + * <p>Those changes can be merged back into the original {@code OfficeDocument} + * with the merger. The merger is capable of doing this even if the + * "Device" format is lossy in comparison to the {@code OfficeDocument} + * format.</p> + * + * @see PluginFactory + * @see DocumentMerger + * @see ConverterCapabilities + */ +public interface DocumentMergerFactory { + + /** + * Create a {@code DocumentMerger} object given a {@code Document} object. + * + * @param doc {@code Document} object that the created + * {@code DocumentMerger} object uses as a base {@code Document} + * for merging changes into. + * + * @return A {@code DocumentMerger} object or {@code null} if none exists. + */ + DocumentMerger createDocumentMerger(Document doc); +}
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