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017
018package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml;
019
020import java.io.InputStream;
021
022/**
023 * Common interface for XML parsers. We are not using JAXP because some of the parsers we want to support may not be JAXP compliant.
024 */
025public interface XMLParser {
026
027    /**
028     * Reads the supplied XML file and returns the resulting model, which is not necessarily DOM.
029     *
030     * @param stream InputStream
031     * @return Object
032     */
033    Object parseXML(InputStream stream);
034}