# -*- 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.
#
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class IParser(object):
    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()

    def tostring(self, elem):
        """
        Get HTML string from an element.
        """
        raise NotImplementedError()