content: /*
   * Style.java July 2008
   *
   * Copyright (C) 2008, Niall Gallagher <niallg@users.sf.net>
   *
   * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
   * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
   * You may obtain a copy of the License at
   *
   *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
   *
   * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
   * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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   * implied. See the License for the specific language governing 
   * permissions and limitations under the License.
   */
  
  package com.aliyun.odps.simpleframework.xml.stream;
  
  /**
   * The <code>Style</code> interface is used to represent an XML style
   * that can be applied to a serialized object. A style can be used to
   * modify the element and attribute names for the generated document.
   * Styles can be used to generate hyphenated or camel case XML.
   * <pre>
   * 
   *    &lt;example-element&gt;
   *        &lt;child-element example-attribute='example'&gt;
   *           &lt;inner-element&gt;example&lt;/inner-element&gt;
   *        &lt;/child-element&gt;
   *     &lt;/example-element&gt;
   *     
   * </pre>
   * Above the hyphenated XML elements and attributes can be generated
   * from a style implementation. Styles enable the same objects to be
   * serialized in different ways, generating different styles of XML
   * without having to modify the class schema for that object.    
   * 
   * @author Niall Gallagher
   */
  public interface Style {
    
     /**
      * This is used to generate the XML element representation of 
      * the specified name. Element names should ensure to keep the
      * uniqueness of the name such that two different names will
      * be styled in to two different strings.
      * 
      * @param name this is the element name that is to be styled
      * 
      * @return this returns the styled name of the XML element
      */
     String getElement(String name);
     
     /**
      * This is used to generate the XML attribute representation of 
      * the specified name. Attribute names should ensure to keep the
      * uniqueness of the name such that two different names will
      * be styled in to two different strings.
      * 
      * @param name this is the attribute name that is to be styled
      * 
      * @return this returns the styled name of the XML attribute
      */
     String getAttribute(String name);
  }
  