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 * $Id: DOMSerializer.java,v 1.2.4.1 2005/09/15 08:15:15 suresh_emailid Exp $

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package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**

 * Interface for a DOM serializer implementation.

 * <p>

 * The DOMSerializer is a facet of a serializer and is obtained from the

 * asDOMSerializer() method of the Serializer interface.

 * A serializer may or may not support a DOM serializer, if it does not then the

 * return value from asDOMSerializer() is null.

 * <p>

 * Example:

 * <pre>

 * Document     doc;

 * Serializer   ser;

 * OutputStream os;

 *

 * ser = ...;

 * os = ...;

 *

 * ser.setOutputStream( os );

 * DOMSerialzier dser = ser.asDOMSerializer();

 * dser.serialize(doc);

 * </pre>

 *

 * @see Serializer

 *

 * @xsl.usage general

 *

 */

public interface DOMSerializer

{

    /**

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

     * exception occured while serializing.

     *

     * This interface is a public API.

     *

     * @param node the DOM node to serialize

     * @throws IOException if an I/O exception occured while serializing

     */

    public void serialize(Node node) throws IOException;

}