/*
 * @(#)NullElementFactory.java 1.0 12/09/97
 * 
 * Copyright (c) 1997 Microsoft, Corp. All Rights Reserved.
 * 
 */

import com.ms.xml.om.*;
import com.ms.xml.util.*;

/**
 * This class implements 'do nothing' ElementFactory for fast XML
 * processing.
 * 
 * @version     1.0, 09 Dec 1997
 * @author      Don Park
 */
public class NullElementFactory implements ElementFactory
{
    /**
     * Creates an element with the specified tag for the
     * specified type of element.
     *
     * @param   tag The name of the element.
     * @param   type One of the predefined Element types that
     * can be returned from <code>Element.getType</code>.
     * @return  the created element.
     * @see     Element
     */
		public Element
	createElement(Element parent, int type, Name tag, String text)
	{
		return null;
	}

    /**
     * Notifies that the element is fully parsed.
     *
     * @param   elem  The element parsed.
     * @see     Element
     */
		public void
	parsed(Element elem)
	{
	};

    /**
     * Notification that an attribute just got parsed.
     * Value may be a String, Name or Vector of Names.
     */
		public void
	parsedAttribute(Element e, Name name, Object value)
	{
	};
}