cdmlib-services/src/main/java/eu/etaxonomy/cdm/api/service/INaturalLanguageTextDataProcessor.java

   1 // $Id$
   2 /**
   3 * Copyright (C) 2009 EDIT
   4 * European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy
   5 * http://www.e-taxonomy.eu
   6 *
   7 * The contents of this file are subject to the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1
   8 * See LICENSE.TXT at the top of this package for the full license terms.
   9 */
  10 package eu.etaxonomy.cdm.api.service;
  11
  12 import eu.etaxonomy.cdm.model.description.TextData;
  13
  14 /**
  15  * @author a.kohlbecker
  16  * @date 13.10.2010
  17  *
  18  */
  19 public interface INaturalLanguageTextDataProcessor {
  20
  21         /**
  22          * Applies some special proccessing to the text contained in the TextData or/and
  23          * to the Feature label/representation
  24          *
  25          * @param textData
  26          * @param previousTextData TODO
  27          * @return the modified TextData
  28          */
  29         public TextData process(TextData textData, TextData previousTextData);
  30
  31 }