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1 /*
2  * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
3  *
4  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
5  * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
6  * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
7  * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
8  * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
9  *
10  * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
11  */
12 
13 package org.w3c.dom.ls;
14 
15 /**
16  *  This interface represents an output destination for data.
17  * <p> This interface allows an application to encapsulate information about
18  * an output destination in a single object, which may include a URI, a byte
19  * stream (possibly with a specified encoding), a base URI, and/or a
20  * character stream.
21  * <p> The exact definitions of a byte stream and a character stream are
22  * binding dependent.
23  * <p> The application is expected to provide objects that implement this
24  * interface whenever such objects are needed. The application can either
25  * provide its own objects that implement this interface, or it can use the
26  * generic factory method <code>DOMImplementationLS.createLSOutput()</code>
27  * to create objects that implement this interface.
28  * <p> The <code>LSSerializer</code> will use the <code>LSOutput</code> object
29  * to determine where to serialize the output to. The
30  * <code>LSSerializer</code> will look at the different outputs specified in
31  * the <code>LSOutput</code> in the following order to know which one to
32  * output to, the first one that is not null and not an empty string will be
33  * used:
34  * <ol>
35  * <li> <code>LSOutput.characterStream</code>
36  * </li>
37  * <li>
38  * <code>LSOutput.byteStream</code>
39  * </li>
40  * <li> <code>LSOutput.systemId</code>
41  * </li>
42  * </ol>
43  * <p> <code>LSOutput</code> objects belong to the application. The DOM
44  * implementation will never modify them (though it may make copies and
45  * modify the copies, if necessary).
46  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-LS-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load
47 and Save Specification</a>.
48  */
49 public interface LSOutput {
50     /**
51      *  An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
52      * a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.
53      */
getCharacterStream()54     public java.io.Writer getCharacterStream();
55     /**
56      *  An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
57      * a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.
58      */
setCharacterStream(java.io.Writer characterStream)59     public void setCharacterStream(java.io.Writer characterStream);
60 
61     /**
62      *  An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
63      * a writable stream of bytes.
64      */
getByteStream()65     public java.io.OutputStream getByteStream();
66     /**
67      *  An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
68      * a writable stream of bytes.
69      */
setByteStream(java.io.OutputStream byteStream)70     public void setByteStream(java.io.OutputStream byteStream);
71 
72     /**
73      *  The system identifier, a URI reference [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>], for this
74      * output destination.
75      * <br> If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>]), the
76      * behavior is implementation dependent.
77      */
getSystemId()78     public String getSystemId();
79     /**
80      *  The system identifier, a URI reference [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>], for this
81      * output destination.
82      * <br> If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>]), the
83      * behavior is implementation dependent.
84      */
setSystemId(String systemId)85     public void setSystemId(String systemId);
86 
87     /**
88      *  The character encoding to use for the output. The encoding must be a
89      * string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>] section
90      * 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that
91      * character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet
92      * Assigned Numbers Authority [<a href='ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets'>IANA-CHARSETS</a>]
93      *  should be referred to using their registered names.
94      */
getEncoding()95     public String getEncoding();
96     /**
97      *  The character encoding to use for the output. The encoding must be a
98      * string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>] section
99      * 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that
100      * character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet
101      * Assigned Numbers Authority [<a href='ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets'>IANA-CHARSETS</a>]
102      *  should be referred to using their registered names.
103      */
setEncoding(String encoding)104     public void setEncoding(String encoding);
105 
106 }
107