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.serializers.encoding;
18:
19: /**
20: *
21: *
22: * @author <a href="mailto:pier@apache.org">Pier Fumagalli</a>, February 2003
23: * @version CVS $Id: Encoder.java 433543 2006-08-22 06:22:54Z crossley $
24: */
25: public interface Encoder extends Verifier {
26:
27: /**
28: * Encode the specified character as a sequence of characters.
29: * <p>
30: * For example, in XML, the character "<code>&</code>" can
31: * be encoded as "<code>&amp;</code>", or the Unicode
32: * "<code>\u012F</code>" character can be encoded as
33: * "<code>&#x012F;</code>"
34: * </p>
35: */
36: public char[] encode(char character);
37: }
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