fop/src/java/org/apache/fop/accessibility/StructureTreeEventHandler.java

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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.accessibility;

import java.util.Locale;

import org.xml.sax.Attributes;

/**
 * Receive notifications relating to the structure tree of an FO document.
 * A structure tree is a reduced version of the document's FO tree, containing only the logical
 * structure that is used by accessible output formats.
 */
public interface StructureTreeEventHandler {

    /**
     * Starts a page sequence structure tree node.
     *
     * @param locale The locale of the page sequence
     * @param role the value of the role property. May be null.
     */
    void startPageSequence(Locale locale, String role);

    /**
     * Starts a structure tree node.
     *
     * @param name the name of the structure tree node
     * @param attributes the node properties
     * @return the corresponding structure tree element
     */
    StructureTreeElement startNode(String name, Attributes attributes);

    /**
     * Ends a structure tree node.
     *
     * @param name the name of the structure tree node
     */
    void endNode(String name);

    /**
     * Starts an image node.
     *
     * @param name the name of the structure tree node
     * @param attributes the node properties
     * @return the corresponding structure tree element
     */
    StructureTreeElement startImageNode(String name, Attributes attributes);

    /**
     * Starts a node that can be referenced by other nodes. This is usually a
     * node that can have Marked Content References as children.
     *
     * @param name the name of the structure tree node
     * @param attributes the node properties
     * @return the corresponding structure tree element
     */
    StructureTreeElement startReferencedNode(String name, Attributes attributes);

    /**
     * Ends a page sequence structure tree node.
     */
    void endPageSequence();
}