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 * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many individuals
 * on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation and was originally created by
 * James Tauber <jtauber@jtauber.com>. For more information on the Apache
 * Software Foundation, please see <http://www.apache.org/>.
 */ 
package org.apache.fop.apps;

// Avalon
import org.apache.avalon.framework.logger.AbstractLogEnabled;

// SAX
import org.xml.sax.XMLReader;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * Abstract super class.
 * Creates a SAX Parser (defaulting to Xerces).
 */
public abstract class Starter extends AbstractLogEnabled {

    /** InputHandler associated with this Starter */
    protected InputHandler inputHandler;

    /**
     * Main constructor
     * @throws FOPException In case of a problem constructing the Starter
     */
    public Starter() throws FOPException {
    }

    /**
     * Sets the InputHandler to use.
     * @param inputHandler input handler
     */
    public void setInputHandler(InputHandler inputHandler) {
        this.inputHandler = inputHandler;
    }

    /**
     * Runs the current setup.
     * @throws FOPException In case of a problem during the FOP run
     */
    public abstract void run() throws FOPException;

    /**
     * Sets the parser features on an XMLReader
     * @param parser XMLReader to set features on
     * @throws FOPException if the XMLReader doesn't support the feature that
     * need to be set
     */
    public void setParserFeatures(XMLReader parser) throws FOPException {
        try {
            parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes",
                              true);
        } catch (SAXException e) {
            throw new FOPException("Error: You need a parser which allows the"
                   + " http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes"
                   + " feature to be set to true to support namespaces", e);
        }
    }

}