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+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2003 IBM Corporation and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials 
+ * are made available under the terms of the Common Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/cpl-v10.html
+ * 
+ * Contributors:
+ *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+
+package net.sourceforge.phpdt.internal.ui.text.spelling.engine;
+
+/**
+ * Interface of algorithms to compute the phonetic distance between two words.
+ * 
+ * @since 3.0
+ */
+public interface IPhoneticDistanceAlgorithm {
+
+	/**
+	 * Returns the non-negative phonetic distance between two words
+	 * 
+	 * @param from
+	 *            The first word
+	 * @param to
+	 *            The second word
+	 * @return The non-negative phonetic distance between the words.
+	 */
+	public int getDistance(String from, String to);
+}