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9package com.ibm.icu.text;
10
11/**
12 * Provide an interface for Transforms that focuses just on the transformation of the text.
13 * APIs that take Transliterator or StringTransform, but only depend on the transformation should use this interface in the API instead.
14 *
15 * @author markdavis
16 * @stable ICU 4.4
17
18 */
19
20public interface Transform<S,D> {
21    /**
22     * Transform the input in some way, to be determined by the subclass.
23     * @param source to be transformed (eg lowercased)
24     * @return result
25     * @stable ICU 4.4
26     */
27    public D transform(S source);
28}
29