gecko-dev/content/base/public/nsIElementFactory.h

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#ifndef nsIElementFactory_h___
#define nsIElementFactory_h___

#include "nsISupports.h"

class nsIContent;
class nsINodeInfo;

/* a6cf90fb-15b3-11d2-932e-00805f8add32 */
#define NS_IELEMENT_FACTORY_IID \
 { 0xa6cf90fb, 0x15b3, 0x11d2,{0x93, 0x2e, 0x00, 0x80, 0x5f, 0x8a, 0xdd, 0x32}}

/**
 * An API for creating html content objects
 */
class nsIElementFactory : public nsISupports {
public:
  static const nsIID& GetIID() { static nsIID iid = NS_IELEMENT_FACTORY_IID; return iid; }

  NS_IMETHOD CreateInstanceByTag(nsINodeInfo *aNodeInfo,
                                 nsIContent** aResult) = 0;
};

// ContractIDs for element factory registration
#define NS_ELEMENT_FACTORY_CONTRACTID          "@mozilla.org/layout/element-factory;1"
#define NS_ELEMENT_FACTORY_CONTRACTID_PREFIX   NS_ELEMENT_FACTORY_CONTRACTID "?namespace="

#define NS_HTML_NAMESPACE                  "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
#define NS_XML_NAMESPACE                   "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
 
#define NS_HTML_ELEMENT_FACTORY_CONTRACTID     NS_ELEMENT_FACTORY_CONTRACTID_PREFIX NS_HTML_NAMESPACE
#define NS_XML_ELEMENT_FACTORY_CONTRACTID      NS_ELEMENT_FACTORY_CONTRACTID_PREFIX NS_XML_NAMESPACE

#endif /* nsIElementFactory_h___ */