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+/*
+ * Copyright 2006 The Apache Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+/* $Id$ */
+
+package org.apache.fop.fonts;
+
+import javax.xml.transform.Source;
+
+/**
+ * This interface is used to resolve absolute and relative font URIs.
+ */
+public interface FontResolver {
+
+    /**
+     * Called to resolve an URI to a Source instance. The base URI needed by the URIResolver's
+     * resolve() method is defined to be implicitely available in this case. If the URI cannot
+     * be resolved, null is returned and it is assumed that the FontResolver implementation
+     * already warned the user about the problem.
+     * @param href An href attribute, which may be relative or absolute.
+     * @return A Source object, or null if the href could not resolved.
+     */
+    Source resolve(String href);
+    
+}