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package com.phloc.commons.xml.serialize;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
import com.phloc.commons.annotations.Nonempty;
import com.phloc.commons.xml.EXMLIncorrectCharacterHandling;
import com.phloc.commons.xml.EXMLVersion;
/**
* Interface for the settings to be used for serializing XML nodes.
*
* @author Philip Helger
*/
public interface IXMLWriterSettings
{
/**
* @return Create XML or HTML? Default is XML.
*/
@Nonnull
EXMLSerializeFormat getFormat ();
/**
* @return The XML version to use. Default is 1.0
*/
@Nonnull
EXMLVersion getXMLVersion ();
/**
* @return Write document type? Default is true.
*/
@Nonnull
EXMLSerializeDocType getSerializeDocType ();
/**
* @return Write comments? Default is true.
*/
@Nonnull
EXMLSerializeComments getSerializeComments ();
/**
* @return Indent code? Default is indent and aligned.
*/
@Nonnull
EXMLSerializeIndent getIndent ();
/**
* @return The incorrect character handling to be used. May not be
* null.
*/
@Nonnull
EXMLIncorrectCharacterHandling getIncorrectCharacterHandling ();
/**
* @return The charset name to use. May never be null.
*/
@Nonnull
String getCharset ();
/**
* @return The charset to use. May never be null.
*/
@Nonnull
Charset getCharsetObj ();
/**
* @return The namespace context to be used. May be null to
* dynamically create the namespace prefixes.
*/
@Nullable
NamespaceContext getNamespaceContext ();
/**
* @return true if attribute values should be enclosed in double
* quotes, false if single quotes should be used.
*/
boolean isUseDoubleQuotesForAttributes ();
/**
* Determine if a self closed element (an element having no children) should
* be emitted with a space at the end (<br />) or not (
* <br/>)
*
* @return true if a space should be emitted, false
* if no space should be emitted.
*/
boolean isSpaceOnSelfClosedElement ();
/**
* @return The newline string to be used. By default it is the platform
* specific newline string. Never null nor empty.
*/
@Nonnull
@Nonempty
String getNewlineString ();
/**
* @return The string to be used for indentation. By default it is 2 spaces.
*/
@Nonnull
@Nonempty
String getIndentationString ();
/**
* Determine if namespaces should be emitted or not.
*
* @return true if namespaces should be emitted,
* false if all created elements should reside in the
* default namespace.
*/
boolean isEmitNamespaces ();
/**
* Check if the flag for putting all namespace prefixes specified in the
* namespace context should be put in the root document. This setting only has
* an effect if a namespace context is defined and if it implements the
* {@link com.phloc.commons.xml.namespace.IIterableNamespaceContext}
* interface!
*
* @return true if it is enabled, false if not.
*/
boolean isPutNamespaceContextPrefixesInRoot ();
}