/* * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, * * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 */ package org.w3c.dom.ls; /** * This interface represents an output destination for data. *
This interface allows an application to encapsulate information about * an output destination in a single object, which may include a URI, a byte * stream (possibly with a specified encoding), a base URI, and/or a * character stream. *
The exact definitions of a byte stream and a character stream are * binding dependent. *
The application is expected to provide objects that implement this
* interface whenever such objects are needed. The application can either
* provide its own objects that implement this interface, or it can use the
* generic factory method DOMImplementationLS.createLSOutput()
* to create objects that implement this interface.
*
The LSSerializer
will use the LSOutput
object
* to determine where to serialize the output to. The
* LSSerializer
will look at the different outputs specified in
* the LSOutput
in the following order to know which one to
* output to, the first one that is not null and not an empty string will be
* used:
*
LSOutput.characterStream
* LSOutput.byteStream
* LSOutput.systemId
* LSOutput
objects belong to the application. The DOM
* implementation will never modify them (though it may make copies and
* modify the copies, if necessary).
*
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load
and Save Specification.
*/
public interface LSOutput {
/**
* An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
* a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.
*/
public java.io.Writer getCharacterStream();
/**
* An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
* a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.
*/
public void setCharacterStream(java.io.Writer characterStream);
/**
* An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
* a writable stream of bytes.
*/
public java.io.OutputStream getByteStream();
/**
* An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
* a writable stream of bytes.
*/
public void setByteStream(java.io.OutputStream byteStream);
/**
* The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this
* output destination.
*
If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the
* behavior is implementation dependent.
*/
public String getSystemId();
/**
* The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this
* output destination.
*
If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the
* behavior is implementation dependent.
*/
public void setSystemId(String systemId);
/**
* The character encoding to use for the output. The encoding must be a
* string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([XML 1.0] section
* 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that
* character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet
* Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA-CHARSETS]
* should be referred to using their registered names.
*/
public String getEncoding();
/**
* The character encoding to use for the output. The encoding must be a
* string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([XML 1.0] section
* 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that
* character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet
* Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA-CHARSETS]
* should be referred to using their registered names.
*/
public void setEncoding(String encoding);
}