001/** 002 * Portions Copyright 2001 Sun Microsystems, Inc. 003 * Portions Copyright 1999-2001 Language Technologies Institute, 004 * Carnegie Mellon University. 005 * All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. 006 * 007 * See the file "license.terms" for information on usage and 008 * redistribution of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL 009 * WARRANTIES. 010 */ 011package com.sun.speech.freetts; 012 013 014/** 015 * Manages a feature or item path. Allows navigation 016 * to the corresponding feature or item. 017 */ 018public interface PathExtractor { 019 020 /** 021 * Finds the item associated with this object. 022 * 023 * @param item the starting point for the path navigation 024 * 025 * @return the item associated with the path or null 026 */ 027 Item findItem(Item item); 028 029 /** 030 * Finds the feature associated with this object. 031 * 032 * @param item the starting point for the path navigation 033 * 034 * @return the feature associated or "0" if the 035 * feature was not found 036 */ 037 Object findFeature(Item item); 038 039 040 // TODO: add these to the interface should we support binary 041 // files 042 /* 043 public void writeBinary(); 044 public void readBinary(); 045 */ 046}