content: /*
   * Copyright (C) 2010 A. Horn
   *
   * Licensed 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.mcsoxford.rss;
  
  /**
   * Thread-safe RSS parser service provider interface.
   * 
   * @author Mr Horn
   */
  public interface RSSParserSPI {
  
    /**
     * Parses an input stream as an RSS feed. It is the responsibility of the
     * caller to close the specified RSS feed input stream.
     * 
     * @param feed RSS 2.0 feed input stream
     * @return in-memory representation of RSS feed
     * @throws RSSFault if an unrecoverable parse error occurs
     */
    RSSFeed parse(java.io.InputStream feed);
  
  }
  
  