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+package org.eclipse.jface.text.reconciler;
+
+/*
+ * (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2000, 2001.
+ * All Rights Reserved.
+ */
+
+
+import org.eclipse.jface.text.IDocument;
+import org.eclipse.jface.text.IRegion;
+
+
+/**
+ * A reconciling strategy is used by an reconciler to reconcile a model
+ * based on text of a particular content type. It provides methods for 
+ * incremental as well as non-incremental reconciling.<p>
+ * This interface must be implemented by clients. Implementers should be
+ * registered with a reconciler in order get involved in the reconciling 
+ * process.
+ */
+public interface IReconcilingStrategy {
+	
+	/**
+	 * Tells this reconciling strategy on which document it will
+	 * work. This method will be called before any other method 
+	 * and can be called multiple times. The regions passed to the
+	 * other methods always refer to the most recent document 
+	 * passed into this method.
+	 *
+	 * @param document the document on which this strategy will work
+	 */
+	void setDocument(IDocument document);
+	
+	/**
+	 * Activates incremental reconciling of the specified dirty region.
+	 * As a dirty region might span multiple content types, the segment of the
+	 * dirty region which should be investigated is also provided to this 
+	 * reconciling strategy. The given regions refer to the document passed into
+	 * the most recent call of <code>setDocument</code>.
+	 *
+	 * @param dirtyRegion the document region which has been changed
+	 * @param subRegion the sub region in the dirty region which should be reconciled 
+	 */
+	void reconcile(DirtyRegion dirtyRegion, IRegion subRegion);
+
+	/**
+	 * Activates non-incremental reconciling. The reconciling strategy is just told
+	 * that there are changes and that it should reconcile the given partition of the
+	 * document most recently passed into <code>setDocument</code>.
+	 *
+	 * @param partition the document partition to be reconciled
+	 */
+	void reconcile(IRegion partition);
+}
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