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package org.springframework.xml.xpath;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * An interface used by {@link XPathOperations} implementations for mapping {@link Node} objects on a per-node basis.
 * Implementations of this interface perform the actual work of mapping each node to a result object, but don't need to
 * worry about exception handling.
 *
 * @author Arjen Poutsma
 * @see XPathOperations#evaluate(String,javax.xml.transform.Source,NodeMapper)
 * @see XPathOperations#evaluateAsObject(String,javax.xml.transform.Source,NodeMapper)
 * @see XPathExpression#evaluate(org.w3c.dom.Node,NodeMapper)
 * @see XPathExpression#evaluateAsObject(org.w3c.dom.Node,NodeMapper)
 * @since 1.0.0
 */
public interface NodeMapper<T> {

	/**
	 * Maps a single node to an arbitrary object.
	 *
	 * @param node	  the node to map
	 * @param nodeNum the number of the current node
	 * @return object for the current node
	 * @throws DOMException in case of DOM errors
	 */
	T mapNode(Node node, int nodeNum) throws DOMException;

}