package net.sf.saxon;

import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
import javax.xml.transform.URIResolver;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;

/**
 * The standard JAXP URIResolver is given a relative URI and a base URI and returns the resource
 * identified by this combination. However, to support a stable implementation of the doc() function,
 * Saxon needs to know what the absolute URI is before the resource is fetched, so it can determine whether
 * a document with that absolute URI actually exists.
 * <p>
 * This extended interface defines a URIResolver that separates the two functions of resolving a relative URI
 * against a base URI, and fetching a resource with that absolute URI. If the URI resolver supplied to Saxon
 * implements this interface, the absolute URI associated with a loaded document will be the URI returned by
 * this resolver.
 * <p>
 * The particular motivation for providing this interface is to allow a URIResolver to wrap a .NET XmlResolver,
 * which has additional capability not present in the JAXP interface.
 */

public interface RelativeURIResolver extends URIResolver {

    /**
     * Create an absolute URI from a relative URI and a base URI. This method performs the
     * process which is correctly called "URI resolution": this is purely a syntactic operation
     * on the URI strings, and does not retrieve any resources.
     * @param href A relative or absolute URI, to be resolved against the specified base URI
     * @param base The base URI against which the first argument will be made
     * absolute if the absolute URI is required.
     * @return A string containing the absolute URI that results from URI resolution. If the resource
     * needs to be fetched, this absolute URI will be supplied as the href parameter in a subsequent
     * call to the <code>resolve</code> method.
     */

    public String makeAbsolute(String href, String base)
        throws TransformerException;

     /**
      * Called by the processor when it encounters
      * an xsl:include, xsl:import, or document() function.
      *
      * @param uri The absolute URI to be dereferenced
      *
      * @return A Source object, or null if the href cannot be dereferenced,
      * and the processor should try to resolve the URI itself.
      *
      * @throws javax.xml.transform.TransformerException if an error occurs when trying to
      * resolve the URI.
     */
    public Source dereference(String uri)
        throws TransformerException;

     /**
      * Called by the processor when it encounters
      * an xsl:include, xsl:import, or document() function.
      *
      * <p>Despite the name, the main purpose of this method is to dereference the URI, not merely
      * to resolve it.</p>
      *
      * <p>This method is provided because it is required by the interface. When using a RelativeURIResolver,
      * the single-argument dereference() method is preferred. The result of calling this method should be the
      * same as the result of calling <code>dereference(makeAbsolute(href, base))</code></p>
      *
      * @param href An href attribute, which may be relative or absolute.
      * @param base The base URI against which the first argument will be made
      * absolute if the absolute URI is required.
      *
      * @return A Source object, or null if the href cannot be resolved,
      * and the processor should try to resolve the URI itself.
      *
      * @throws javax.xml.transform.TransformerException if an error occurs when trying to
      * resolve the URI.
     */
    public Source resolve(String href, String base)
        throws TransformerException;

    /**
     * Specify the media type of the resource that is expected to be delivered. This information is
     * supplied by the processor primarily to indicate whether the URIResolver is allowed to return
     * an XML tree already parsed. If the value is "text/plain" then the Source returned by the
     * resolve() method should be a StreamSource.
     * @param mediaType the expected media type
     */

    public void setExpectedMediaType(String mediaType);
    // TODO: method is not currently used

}

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