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1   /**
2    * Portions of this software was developed by employees of the National Institute
3    * of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the Federal Government and is
4    * being made available as a public service. Pursuant to title 17 United States
5    * Code Section 105, works of NIST employees are not subject to copyright
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26  
27  package gov.nist.secauto.decima.xml.templating.document.post.template;
28  
29  import gov.nist.secauto.decima.core.document.DocumentException;
30  import gov.nist.secauto.decima.core.document.handling.ResourceResolver;
31  import gov.nist.secauto.decima.xml.document.MutableXMLDocument;
32  
33  import java.net.URL;
34  import java.util.List;
35  
36  /**
37   * Represents a template processor that applies a number of {@code Action} transforms to a template
38   * document.
39   */
40  public interface TemplateProcessor {
41    /*
42     * Retrieve the URL of the template definition file.
43     * 
44     * @return a URL pointing to the template definition file
45     */
46    URL getContextSystemId();
47  
48    /**
49     * Retrieve the URL for the base template that is used for the transformations.
50     * 
51     * @return a URL pointing to the template to use
52     */
53    URL getBaseTemplateURL();
54  
55    /**
56     * Retrieves the sequence of actions to be applied to the template.
57     * 
58     * @return a list of actions
59     */
60    List<Action> getActions();
61  
62    /**
63     * Creates a resulting {@code Template} by processing a set of {@code Action} transforms against a
64     * base template.
65     * 
66     * @param resolver
67     *          the TemplateResolver to use to load the template
68     * @return a new {@code Document} based on the provided template and transformations
69     * @throws DocumentException
70     *           if a processing error occurs
71     */
72    MutableXMLDocument generate(ResourceResolver<MutableXMLDocument> resolver) throws DocumentException;
73  }