source: trunk/docx4j/src/main/java/org/docx4j/model/Model.java @ 949

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package org.docx4j.model;

import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;

import org.docx4j.convert.out.Converter;
import org.docx4j.openpackaging.packages.WordprocessingMLPackage;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

public abstract class Model {
        
        protected WordprocessingMLPackage wordMLPackage;
        public void setWordMLPackage(WordprocessingMLPackage wordMLPackage) {
                this.wordMLPackage = wordMLPackage;
        }
        
        /**
         * Build the model from a DOM node.
         * This is useful if the model is being built via
         * XSLT, for the purposes of conversion to some other format. 
         * 
         * It is assumed the children of the structure being transformed
         * have already been transformed, so they can be attached to
         * the resulting structure and returned as-is. 
         * 
         * @param node
         * @param children 
         * @throws TransformerException
         */
        public abstract void build(Node node,  NodeList children  ) 
                throws TransformerException;
        
        /**
         * Generate a JAXB OpenXML object from this structure.
         * 
         * For conversion to other formats (eg HTML, XSL FO), refer to
         * the ModelConverter implementations.
         */
        public abstract Object toJAXB();
        
}