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Xerces2 provides high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces continues to build upon the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 provides fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 processors. An experimental implementation of the "XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010)" is also provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use.

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package org.apache.xml.serialize;


import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.Writer;

import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler;


/**
 * Interface for a DOM serializer implementation, factory for DOM and SAX
 * serializers, and static methods for serializing DOM documents.
 * 
 * To serialize a document using SAX events, create a compatible serializer
 * and pass it around as a {@link
 * org.xml.sax.DocumentHandler}. If an I/O error occurs while serializing, it will
 * be thrown by {@link DocumentHandler#endDocument}. The SAX serializer
 * may also be used as {@link org.xml.sax.DTDHandler}, {@link org.xml.sax.ext.DeclHandler} and
 * {@link org.xml.sax.ext.LexicalHandler}.
 * 

 * To serialize a DOM document or DOM element, create a compatible
 * serializer and call it's {@link
 * DOMSerializer#serialize(Document)} or {@link DOMSerializer#serialize(Element)} methods.
 * Both methods would produce a full XML document, to serizlie only
 * the portion of the document use {@link OutputFormat#setOmitXMLDeclaration}
 * and specify no document type.
 * 
 * The {@link OutputFormat} dictates what underlying serialized is used
 * to serialize the document based on the specified method. If the output
 * format or method are missing, the default is an XML serializer with
 * UTF-8 encoding and now indentation.
 * 
 *
 * @version $Revision: 1.13 $ $Date: 2003/05/13 13:23:49 $
 * @author Assaf Arkin
 * @author Scott Boag
 * @see DocumentHandler
 * @see ContentHandler
 * @see OutputFormat
 * @see DOMSerializer
 */
public interface Serializer
{


    /**
     * Specifies an output stream to which the document should be
     * serialized. This method should not be called while the
     * serializer is in the process of serializing a document.
     */
    public void setOutputByteStream(OutputStream output);
    

    /**
     * Specifies a writer to which the document should be serialized.
     * This method should not be called while the serializer is in
     * the process of serializing a document.
     */
    public void setOutputCharStream( Writer output );


    /**
     * Specifies an output format for this serializer. It the
     * serializer has already been associated with an output format,
     * it will switch to the new format. This method should not be
     * called while the serializer is in the process of serializing
     * a document.
     *
     * @param format The output format to use
     */
    public void setOutputFormat( OutputFormat format );


    /**
     * Return a {@link DocumentHandler} interface into this serializer.
     * If the serializer does not support the {@link DocumentHandler}
     * interface, it should return null.
     */
    public DocumentHandler asDocumentHandler()
        throws IOException;


    /**
     * Return a {@link ContentHandler} interface into this serializer.
     * If the serializer does not support the {@link ContentHandler}
     * interface, it should return null.
     */
    public ContentHandler asContentHandler()
        throws IOException;


    /**
     * Return a {@link DOMSerializer} interface into this serializer.
     * If the serializer does not support the {@link DOMSerializer}
     * interface, it should return null.
     */
    public DOMSerializer asDOMSerializer()
        throws IOException;


}