/*
 * LoadableObject.java
 *
 *
 *  The Salamander Project - 2D and 3D graphics libraries in Java
 *  Copyright (C) 2004 Mark McKay
 *
 *  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
 *  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
 *
 *  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
 *  Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 *  You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
 *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 *
 *  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);

}