1 /* 2 * Copyright [2005] [University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, Inc.] 3 * 4 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at 7 * 8 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 9 * 10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 14 * limitations under the License. 15 */ 16 17 package org.opensaml.xml.io; 18 19 import org.opensaml.xml.XMLObject; 20 import org.w3c.dom.Element; 21 22 /** 23 * Unmarshallers are used to unmarshall a W3C DOM element into a {@link org.opensaml.xml.XMLObject}. 24 */ 25 public interface Unmarshaller { 26 27 /** 28 * Unmarshalls the given W3C DOM element into a XMLObject. 29 * 30 * @param element the DOM Element 31 * 32 * @return the unmarshalled XMLObject 33 * 34 * @throws UnmarshallingException thrown if an error occurs unmarshalling the DOM element into the XMLObject 35 */ 36 public XMLObject unmarshall(Element element) throws UnmarshallingException; 37 }