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  50.  * This software consists of voluntary contributions made by many

  51.  * individuals on behalf of the Apache Software Foundation and was

  52.  * originally based on software copyright (c) 1999, Lotus

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  57. package org.apache.xalan.serialize;

  58. 

  59. import java.io.IOException;

  60. 

  61. import org.w3c.dom.Node;

  62. 

  63. /**

  64.  * Interface for a DOM serializer implementation.

  65.  * <p>

  66.  * The DOM serializer is a facet of a serializer. A serializer may or may

  67.  * not support a DOM serializer.

  68.  * <p>

  69.  * Example:

  70.  * <pre>

  71.  * Document     doc;

  72.  * Serializer   ser;

  73.  * OutputStream os;

  74.  *

  75.  * ser.setOutputStream( os );

  76.  * ser.asDOMSerializer( doc );

  77.  * </pre>

  78.  *

  79.  *

  80.  * @version Alpha

  81.  * @author <a href="mailto:Scott_Boag/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com">Scott Boag</a>

  82.  * @author <a href="mailto:arkin@exoffice.com">Assaf Arkin</a>

  83.  */

  84. public interface DOMSerializer

  85. {

  86.   /**

  87.    * Serializes the DOM node. Throws an exception only if an I/O

  88.    * exception occured while serializing.

  89.    *

  90.    * @param elem The element to serialize

  91.    * @throws IOException An I/O exception occured while serializing

  92.    */

  93.   public void serialize(Node node) throws IOException;

  94. }