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+package org.apache.lucene.search.highlight;
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You 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.
+ */
+
+import org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenStream;
+
+/**
+ * Implements the policy for breaking text into multiple fragments for
+ * consideration by the {@link Highlighter} class. A sophisticated
+ * implementation may do this on the basis of detecting end of sentences in the
+ * text.
+ */
+public interface Fragmenter {
+
+ /**
+ * Initializes the Fragmenter. You can grab references to the Attributes you are
+ * interested in from tokenStream and then access the values in {@link #isNewFragment()}.
+ *
+ * @param originalText the original source text
+ * @param tokenStream the {@link TokenStream} to be fragmented
+ */
+ public void start(String originalText, TokenStream tokenStream);
+
+
+ /**
+ * Test to see if this token from the stream should be held in a new
+ * TextFragment. Every time this is called, the TokenStream
+ * passed to start(String, TokenStream) will have been incremented.
+ *
+ */
+ public boolean isNewFragment();
+}