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+/*
+ *
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you 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.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.qpid.gentools;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+
+/**
+ * @author kpvdr
+ *         Interface allowing the addition of elements from a node in the
+ *         DOM of the AMQP specification. It is used by each of the model
+ *         elements in a recursive fashion to build the model.
+ */
+public interface NodeAware
+{
+    /**
+     * Add a model element from the current DOM node. All model elements must implement
+     * this interface. If the node contains children that are also a part of the model,
+     * then this method is called on new instances of those model elements.
+     *
+     * @param n Node from which the current model element is to be added.
+     * @param o Ordinal value of the current model elemet.
+     * @param v Verion of the DOM from which the node comes.
+     * @throws AmqpParseException
+     * @throws AmqpTypeMappingException
+     * @returns true if a node was added, false if not
+     */
+    public boolean addFromNode(Node n, int o, AmqpVersion v)
+            throws AmqpParseException, AmqpTypeMappingException;
+}