import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.util.Map;

import org.apache.maven.artifact.repository.metadata.Metadata;

/**
 * Handles deserialization of metadata from some kind of textual format like XML.
 *
 */
public interface MetadataReader {

    /**
     * The key for the option to enable strict parsing. This option is of type {@link Boolean} and defaults to {@code