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1   ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2   // MillScript-XML: an Open Spice interpreter and batch website creation tool
3   // Copyright (C) 2005 Kevin Rogers
4   //
5   // This file is part of MillScript-XML.
6   //
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8   // the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
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20  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
21  package org.millscript.commons.xml.api.token;
22  
23  /**
24   * This interface represents a token that can be returned by the tokenizer. It
25   * allows us to provide an object oriented tokenizer and also provides us with
26   * a way to ensure the tokenizer only ever returns valid tokens.
27   * <p>
28   * By ensuring that every token implements the visitor pattern, we effectively
29   * unify the tokenizing and event style of parsing a document.
30   * </p>
31   */
32  public interface Token {
33  
34      /**
35       * Visits the specified token visitor with this token.
36       *
37       * @param tokenVisitor  the <code>TokenVisitor</code> to visit with this
38       * token
39       */
40      void visit( final TokenVisitor tokenVisitor );
41  
42  }