jaxp/src/javax/xml/stream/XMLEventWriter.java
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+/*
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+
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2009 by Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
+ */
+
+package javax.xml.stream;
+
+import javax.xml.stream.events.*;
+import javax.xml.stream.util.XMLEventConsumer;
+import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
+
+/**
+ *
+ * This is the top level interface for writing XML documents.
+ *
+ * Instances of this interface are not required to validate the
+ * form of the XML.
+ *
+ * @version 1.0
+ * @author Copyright (c) 2009 by Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
+ * @see XMLEventReader
+ * @see javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent
+ * @see javax.xml.stream.events.Characters
+ * @see javax.xml.stream.events.ProcessingInstruction
+ * @see javax.xml.stream.events.StartElement
+ * @see javax.xml.stream.events.EndElement
+ * @since 1.6
+ */
+public interface XMLEventWriter extends XMLEventConsumer {
+
+  /**
+   * Writes any cached events to the underlying output mechanism
+   * @throws XMLStreamException
+   */
+  public void flush() throws XMLStreamException;
+
+  /**
+   * Frees any resources associated with this stream
+   * @throws XMLStreamException
+   */
+  public void close() throws XMLStreamException;
+
+  /**
+   * Add an event to the output stream
+   * Adding a START_ELEMENT will open a new namespace scope that
+   * will be closed when the corresponding END_ELEMENT is written.
+   * <table border="2" rules="all" cellpadding="4">
+   *   <thead>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <th align="center" colspan="2">
+   *         Required and optional fields for events added to the writer
+   *       </th>
+   *     </tr>
+   *   </thead>
+   *   <tbody>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <th>Event Type</th>
+   *       <th>Required Fields</th>
+   *       <th>Optional Fields</th>
+   *       <th>Required Behavior</th>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> START_ELEMENT  </td>
+   *       <td> QName name </td>
+   *       <td> namespaces , attributes </td>
+   *       <td> A START_ELEMENT will be written by writing the name,
+   *       namespaces, and attributes of the event in XML 1.0 valid
+   *       syntax for START_ELEMENTs.
+   *       The name is written by looking up the prefix for
+   *       the namespace uri.  The writer can be configured to
+   *       respect prefixes of QNames.  If the writer is respecting
+   *       prefixes it must use the prefix set on the QName.  The
+   *       default behavior is to lookup the value for the prefix
+   *       on the EventWriter's internal namespace context.
+   *       Each attribute (if any)
+   *       is written using the behavior specified in the attribute
+   *       section of this table.  Each namespace (if any) is written
+   *       using the behavior specified in the namespace section of this
+   *       table.
+   *       </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> END_ELEMENT  </td>
+   *       <td> Qname name  </td>
+   *       <td> None </td>
+   *       <td> A well formed END_ELEMENT tag is written.
+   *       The name is written by looking up the prefix for
+   *       the namespace uri.  The writer can be configured to
+   *       respect prefixes of QNames.  If the writer is respecting
+   *       prefixes it must use the prefix set on the QName.  The
+   *       default behavior is to lookup the value for the prefix
+   *       on the EventWriter's internal namespace context.
+   *       If the END_ELEMENT name does not match the START_ELEMENT
+   *       name an XMLStreamException is thrown.
+   *       </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> ATTRIBUTE  </td>
+   *       <td> QName name , String value </td>
+   *       <td> QName type </td>
+   *       <td> An attribute is written using the same algorithm
+   *            to find the lexical form as used in START_ELEMENT.
+   *            The default is to use double quotes to wrap attribute
+   *            values and to escape any double quotes found in the
+   *            value.  The type value is ignored.
+   *       </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> NAMESPACE  </td>
+   *       <td> String prefix, String namespaceURI,
+   *            boolean isDefaultNamespaceDeclaration
+   *      </td>
+   *       <td> None  </td>
+   *       <td> A namespace declaration is written.  If the
+   *            namespace is a default namespace declaration
+   *            (isDefault is true) then xmlns="$namespaceURI"
+   *            is written and the prefix is optional.  If
+   *            isDefault is false, the prefix must be declared
+   *            and the writer must prepend xmlns to the prefix
+   *            and write out a standard prefix declaration.
+   *      </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION  </td>
+   *       <td>   None</td>
+   *       <td>   String target, String data</td>
+   *       <td>   The data does not need to be present and may be
+   *              null.  Target is required and many not be null.
+   *              The writer
+   *              will write data section
+   *              directly after the target,
+   *              enclosed in appropriate XML 1.0 syntax
+   *      </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> COMMENT  </td>
+   *       <td> None  </td>
+   *       <td> String comment  </td>
+   *       <td> If the comment is present (not null) it is written, otherwise an
+   *            an empty comment is written
+   *      </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> START_DOCUMENT  </td>
+   *       <td> None  </td>
+   *       <td> String encoding , boolean standalone, String version  </td>
+   *       <td> A START_DOCUMENT event is not required to be written to the
+   *             stream.  If present the attributes are written inside
+   *             the appropriate XML declaration syntax
+   *      </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> END_DOCUMENT  </td>
+   *       <td> None </td>
+   *       <td> None  </td>
+   *       <td> Nothing is written to the output  </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *     <tr>
+   *       <td> DTD  </td>
+   *       <td> String DocumentTypeDefinition  </td>
+   *       <td> None  </td>
+   *       <td> The DocumentTypeDefinition is written to the output  </td>
+   *     </tr>
+   *   </tbody>
+   * </table>
+   * @param event the event to be added
+   * @throws XMLStreamException
+   */
+  public void add(XMLEvent event) throws XMLStreamException;
+
+  /**
+   * Adds an entire stream to an output stream,
+   * calls next() on the inputStream argument until hasNext() returns false
+   * This should be treated as a convenience method that will
+   * perform the following loop over all the events in an
+   * event reader and call add on each event.
+   *
+   * @param reader the event stream to add to the output
+   * @throws XMLStreamException
+   */
+
+  public void add(XMLEventReader reader) throws XMLStreamException;
+
+  /**
+   * Gets the prefix the uri is bound to
+   * @param uri the uri to look up
+   * @throws XMLStreamException
+   */
+  public String getPrefix(String uri) throws XMLStreamException;
+
+  /**
+   * Sets the prefix the uri is bound to.  This prefix is bound
+   * in the scope of the current START_ELEMENT / END_ELEMENT pair.
+   * If this method is called before a START_ELEMENT has been written
+   * the prefix is bound in the root scope.
+   * @param prefix the prefix to bind to the uri
+   * @param uri the uri to bind to the prefix
+   * @throws XMLStreamException
+   */
+  public void setPrefix(String prefix, String uri) throws XMLStreamException;
+
+  /**
+   * Binds a URI to the default namespace
+   * This URI is bound
+   * in the scope of the current START_ELEMENT / END_ELEMENT pair.
+   * If this method is called before a START_ELEMENT has been written
+   * the uri is bound in the root scope.
+   * @param uri the uri to bind to the default namespace
+   * @throws XMLStreamException
+   */
+  public void setDefaultNamespace(String uri) throws XMLStreamException;
+
+  /**
+   * Sets the current namespace context for prefix and uri bindings.
+   * This context becomes the root namespace context for writing and
+   * will replace the current root namespace context.  Subsequent calls
+   * to setPrefix and setDefaultNamespace will bind namespaces using
+   * the context passed to the method as the root context for resolving
+   * namespaces.
+   * @param context the namespace context to use for this writer
+   * @throws XMLStreamException
+   */
+  public void setNamespaceContext(NamespaceContext context)
+    throws XMLStreamException;
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the current namespace context.
+   * @return the current namespace context
+   */
+  public NamespaceContext getNamespaceContext();
+
+
+}