/*
 * SVG Salamander
 * Copyright (c) 2004, Mark McKay
 * All rights reserved.
 *
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 * Mark McKay can be contacted at mark@kitfox.com.  Salamander and other
 * projects can be found at http://www.kitfox.com
 *
 * Created on September 1, 2003, 1:46 AM
 */

package com.kitfox.svg.xml;

import org.w3c.dom.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.util.*;
import java.lang.reflect.*;

/**
 * @author Mark McKay
 * @author <a href="mailto:mark@kitfox.com">Mark McKay</a>
 */
public interface ReadableXMLElement {

    /**
     * Initializes this element from the passed DOM tree.
     * @param root - DOM tree to build from
     * @param docRoot - URL of the document this DOM tree was created from
     */
    public void read(Element root, URL docRoot);

}
