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014    
015    package org.apache.tapestry.describe;
016    
017    import org.apache.tapestry.IMarkupWriter;
018    
019    /**
020     * Service used to describe an object to a markup writer as HTML (typically, as a <table>).
021     * 
022     * @author Howard M. Lewis Ship
023     * @since 4.0
024     */
025    public interface HTMLDescriber
026    {
027        void describeObject(Object object, IMarkupWriter writer);
028    }