1 /************************************************************** 2 * 3 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 4 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 5 * distributed with this work for additional information 6 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 7 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 8 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 9 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 10 * 11 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 12 * 13 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 14 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 15 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 16 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 17 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 18 * under the License. 19 * 20 *************************************************************/ 21 22 23 24 package org.openoffice.xmerge.merger; 25 26 import org.w3c.dom.Node; 27 28 /** 29 * This is an interface for a {@link 30 * org.openoffice.xmerge.merger.MergeAlgorithm 31 * MergeAlgorithm} to merge two <code>Node</code> objects. It is an 32 * interface so that different merge algorithms may be plugged-in. 33 * 34 * @author smak 35 */ 36 public interface NodeMergeAlgorithm { 37 38 /** 39 * This method is used to merge two given <code>Node</code> 40 * objects. Note: the original <code>Node</code> may be modified. 41 * 42 * @param originalNode The original <code>Node</code>. 43 * @param modifyNode The <code>Node</code> to be merged. It may 44 * be modified. 45 */ merge(Node originalNode, Node modifyNode)46 public void merge(Node originalNode, Node modifyNode); 47 } 48 49