foundation/org.eclipse.persistence.core/src/main/java/org/eclipse/persistence/internal/oxm/record/ExtendedContentHandler.java

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 *
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 * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0,
 * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/org/documents/edl-v10.php.
 *
 * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR BSD-3-Clause
 */

// Contributors:
//     Blaise Doughan - 2.3 - initial implementation
package org.eclipse.persistence.internal.oxm.record;

import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * This class is used to introduce new events to the standard ContentHandler
 * interface that can be leveraged by MOXy.
 */
public interface ExtendedContentHandler extends ContentHandler {

    /*
     * This method is an alternate to the characters method on ContentHandler.
     * If this method is called other characters methods must not be called.
     */
    void characters(CharSequence characters) throws SAXException;

    /**
     * This method can be used to track that the current element is nil
     */
    void setNil(boolean isNil);

}