package org.lcsim.util.xml;
   
   import org.jdom.Element;
   import org.jdom.JDOMException;
   
   /**
    * An interface that must be implemented by all element factories.
    * 
    * By providing their own implementation of ElementFactory users can cause custom classes to be
   * created by the reader.
   * @author tonyj
   * @version $Id: ElementFactory.java,v 1.1 2005/07/15 02:54:58 jeremy Exp $
   */
  public interface ElementFactory
  {
     <T> T createElement(Class<T> c, Element node, String type) throws JDOMException, ElementCreationException;
     public static class ElementCreationException extends Exception
     {
        ElementCreationException(String message)
        {
           super(message);
        }
        ElementCreationException(String message, Throwable cause)
        {
           super(message,cause);
        }
     }
  }