# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

"""
Copyright(C) 2010  Romain Bignon

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, version 3 of the License.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

"""

class IParser(object):
    def dump(self, elem):
        """
        Get HTML string from an element.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError()

    def parse(self, data, encoding=None):
        """
        Parse a HTML document with a specific encoding to get a tree.

        @param data  [str] HTML document
        @param encoding  [str] encoding to use
        @return  an object with the structured document
        """
        raise NotImplementedError()