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+/*
+ * Copyright  2004 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.
+ *
+ */
+package org.apache.tools.ant;
+
+/**
+ * Enables a task to control unknown attributes and elements.
+ *
+ * @since Ant 1.7
+ */
+public interface DynamicConfiguratorNS {
+
+    /**
+     * Set a named attribute to the given value
+     *
+     * @param uri The namespace uri for this attribute, "" is
+     *            used if there is no namespace uri.
+     * @param localName The localname of this attribute.
+     * @param qName The qualified name for this attribute
+     * @param value The value of this attribute.
+     * @throws BuildException when any error occurs
+     */
+    void setDynamicAttribute(
+        String uri, String localName, String qName, String value)
+            throws BuildException;
+
+    /**
+     * Create an element with the given name
+     *
+     * @param uri The namespace uri for this attribute.
+     * @param localName The localname of this attribute.
+     * @param qName The qualified name for this element.
+     * @throws BuildException when any error occurs
+     * @return the element created for this element.
+     */
+    Object createDynamicElement(
+        String uri, String localName, String qName) throws BuildException;
+}