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Writing Your Own RTF Converter

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An article on how to write a custom RTF parser and converter.
// -- FILE ------------------------------------------------------------------
// name       : IRtfParserListener.cs
// project    : RTF Framelet
// created    : Leon Poyyayil - 2008.05.19
// language   : c#
// environment: .NET 2.0
// copyright  : (c) 2004-2013 by Jani Giannoudis, Switzerland
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------

namespace Itenso.Rtf
{

	// ------------------------------------------------------------------------
	public interface IRtfParserListener
	{

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Called before any other of the methods upon starting parsing of new input.
		/// </summary>
		void ParseBegin();

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Called when a new group began.
		/// </summary>
		void GroupBegin();

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Called when a new tag was found.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="tag">the newly found tag</param>
		void TagFound( IRtfTag tag );

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Called when a new text was found.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="text">the newly found text</param>
		void TextFound( IRtfText text );

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Called after a group ended.
		/// </summary>
		void GroupEnd();

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Called if parsing finished sucessfully.
		/// </summary>
		void ParseSuccess();

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Called if parsing failed.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="reason">the reason for the failure</param>
		void ParseFail( RtfException reason );

		// ----------------------------------------------------------------------
		/// <summary>
		/// Called after parsing finished. Always called, also in case of a failure.
		/// </summary>
		void ParseEnd();

	} // interface IRtfParserListener

} // namespace Itenso.Rtf
// -- EOF -------------------------------------------------------------------

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