ContentHandlerFactory (Apache FOP Core 2.11 API)
Date: 2025-04-24

org.apache.fop.util

## Interface ContentHandlerFactory

- All Known Implementing Classes:
    AFPExtensionHandlerFactory, DOMBuilderContentHandlerFactory, PDFExtensionHandlerFactory, PSExtensionHandlerFactory, SVGDOMContentHandlerFactory, XMPContentHandlerFactory

      public interface ContentHandlerFactory

  Factory interface implemented by classes that can instantiate ContentHandler subclasses which parse a SAX stream into Java objects.

- - ### Nested Class Summary

    Nested Classes
    Modifier and Type | Interface and Description
    --- | ---
    `static interface` | `ContentHandlerFactory.ObjectBuiltListener` EventListener interface for objects which want to get notified when ContentHandler implementing the ObjectSource interface has finished parsing.
    `static interface` | `ContentHandlerFactory.ObjectSource` Interface that ContentHandler implementations that parse Java objects from XML can implement to return these objects.

  - ### Method Summary

    All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `ContentHandler` | `createContentHandler()`
    `String[]` | `getSupportedNamespaces()`

- - ### Method Detail

    - #### getSupportedNamespaces

          String[] getSupportedNamespaces()

      Returns:
        an array of supported namespaces.

    - #### createContentHandler

          ContentHandler createContentHandler()
                                       throws SAXException

      Returns:
        a new ContentHandler to handle a SAX stream
      Throws:
        `SAXException` - if there's an error while preparing the ContentHandler

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