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package org.w3c.dom.ls;

/**

 *  This interface represents an output destination for data.

 * <p> 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.

 * <p> The exact definitions of a byte stream and a character stream are

 * binding dependent.

 * <p> 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 <code>DOMImplementationLS.createLSOutput()</code>

 * to create objects that implement this interface.

 * <p> The <code>LSSerializer</code> will use the <code>LSOutput</code> object

 * to determine where to serialize the output to. The

 * <code>LSSerializer</code> will look at the different outputs specified in

 * the <code>LSOutput</code> 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:

 * <ol>

 * <li> <code>LSOutput.characterStream</code>

 * </li>

 * <li>

 * <code>LSOutput.byteStream</code>

 * </li>

 * <li> <code>LSOutput.systemId</code>

 * </li>

 * </ol>

 * <p> <code>LSOutput</code> objects belong to the application. The DOM

 * implementation will never modify them (though it may make copies and

 * modify the copies, if necessary).

 * <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

and Save Specification</a>.

 */

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 [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>], for this

     * output destination.

     * <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

     * behavior is implementation dependent.

     */

    public String getSystemId();

    /**

     *  The system identifier, a URI reference [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>], for this

     * output destination.

     * <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

     * 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 ([<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>] section

     * 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that

     * character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet

     * Assigned Numbers Authority [<a href='ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets'>IANA-CHARSETS</a>]

     *  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 ([<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>] section

     * 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that

     * character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet

     * Assigned Numbers Authority [<a href='ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets'>IANA-CHARSETS</a>]

     *  should be referred to using their registered names.

     */

    public void setEncoding(String encoding);

}