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 * or the Eclipse Distribution License v. 1.0 which is available at
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 */

// 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);

}