01: /*
02: * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
03: * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
04: * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
05: * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
06: * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
07: * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
08: *
09: * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
10: *
11: * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
12: * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
13: * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
14: * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
15: * limitations under the License.
16: */
17: package org.apache.cocoon.components.sax;
18:
19: import org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component;
20: import org.apache.cocoon.xml.XMLConsumer;
21:
22: /**
23: * This interfaces identifies classes that serialize XML data, receiving
24: * notification of SAX events.
25: * <br>
26: * It's beyond the scope of this interface to specify the format for
27: * the serialized data.
28: *
29: * @author <a href="mailto:cziegeler@apache.org">Carsten Ziegeler</a>
30: * @version CVS $Id: XMLSerializer.java 433543 2006-08-22 06:22:54Z crossley $
31: */
32: public interface XMLSerializer extends XMLConsumer, Component {
33:
34: String ROLE = XMLSerializer.class.getName();
35:
36: /**
37: * Get the serialized xml data
38: *
39: * @return The serialized xml data.
40: */
41: Object getSAXFragment();
42: }
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