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.serialization;
18:
19: import org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.SitemapOutputComponent;
20: import org.apache.cocoon.xml.XMLConsumer;
21:
22: /**
23: * A serializer is the last point of a pipeline. It "serializes" XML
24: * arriving as SAX events into any binary format. <br> Serializers can
25: * additionally implement the {@link org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.SitemapModelComponent}
26: * interface to gain access to the <code>resolver</code>, <code>objectModel</code>,
27: * <code>source</code> or <code>parameters</code> objects.
28: *
29: * @author <a href="mailto:pier@apache.org">Pierpaolo Fumagalli</a>
30: * (Apache Software Foundation)
31: * @version CVS $Id: Serializer.java 433543 2006-08-22 06:22:54Z crossley $
32: */
33: public interface Serializer extends XMLConsumer, SitemapOutputComponent {
34:
35: String ROLE = Serializer.class.getName();
36: }
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