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+package org.apache.lucene.search.highlight;
+/**
+ * Copyright 2005 The Apache Software Foundation
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+
+/**
+ * Encodes original text. The Encoder works with the {@link Formatter} to generate output.
+ *
+ */
+public interface Encoder
+{
+ /**
+ * @param originalText The section of text being output
+ */
+ String encodeText(String originalText);
+}
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