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9package com.ibm.icu.text;
10
11/**
12 * Provide a base class for Transforms that focuses just on the transformation of the text. APIs that take Transliterator, but only depend on the text transformation should use this interface in the API instead.
13 *
14 * @stable ICU 3.8
15 * @author markdavis
16 *
17 */
18public interface StringTransform extends Transform<String,String> {
19    /**
20     * Transform the text in some way, to be determined by the subclass.
21     * @param source text to be transformed (eg lowercased)
22     * @return result
23     * @stable ICU 3.8
24     */
25    @Override
26    public String transform(String source);
27}