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      <p class="shortcomment cmt">Provides common infrastructure for parsing CIM elements.</p><div class="fullcomment"><div class="comment cmt"><p>Provides common infrastructure for parsing CIM elements.
Subclasses (actually their companion objects) must implement the <code>parse</code> method.
Other methods are helpers for parsing the regular XML structure of CIM rdf files.
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