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package com.intellij.psi.tree;

import com.intellij.lang.ASTNode;

/**
 * An additional interface to be implemented by {@link IElementType} instances for tokens which should be parsed lazily, but 
 * for some reasons extending {@link ILazyParseableElementType} is impossible.
 */
public interface ILazyParseableElementTypeBase {
  
  /**
   * Parses the contents of the specified chameleon node and returns the AST tree
   * representing the parsed contents.
   *
   * @param chameleon the node to parse.
   * @return the parsed contents of the node.
   */
  ASTNode parseContents(ASTNode chameleon);
}
