| This interface represents an output destination for data.
This interface allows an application to encapsulate information about
an output destination in a single object, which may include a URI, a byte
stream (possibly with a specified encoding), a base URI, and/or a
character stream.
The exact definitions of a byte stream and a character stream are
binding dependent.
The application is expected to provide objects that implement this
interface whenever such objects are needed. The application can either
provide its own objects that implement this interface, or it can use the
generic factory method DOMImplementationLS.createLSOutput()
to create objects that implement this interface.
The LSSerializer will use the LSOutput object
to determine where to serialize the output to. The
LSSerializer will look at the different outputs specified in
the LSOutput in the following order to know which one to
output to, the first one that is not null and not an empty string will be
used:
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LSOutput.characterStream
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LSOutput.byteStream
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LSOutput.systemId
LSOutput objects belong to the application. The DOM
implementation will never modify them (though it may make copies and
modify the copies, if necessary).
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load
and Save Specification.
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