content: /*
   * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
   *
   * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
   * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
   * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
   * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
   * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
   *
   * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
   */
  
  package mf.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.
       */
      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.
       */
      void setCharacterStream(java.io.Writer characterStream);
  
      /**
       * An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
       * a writable stream of bytes.
       */
      java.io.OutputStream getByteStream();
  
      /**
       * An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents
       * a writable stream of bytes.
       */
      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.
       */
      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.
       */
      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.
       */
      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.
       */
      void setEncoding(String encoding);
  
  }
  