blob: 3351ddef1dde61b7650077c9c58d56351e67eb96 [file] [log] [blame]
/*
* Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
* contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
* this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
* The ASF licenses this file to You 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,
* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
* limitations under the License.
*/
package org.apache.cocoon.serialization;
import org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.SitemapOutputComponent;
import org.apache.cocoon.xml.XMLConsumer;
/**
* A serializer is the last point of a pipeline. It "serializes" XML
* arriving as SAX events into any binary format. <br> Serializers can
* additionally implement the {@link org.apache.cocoon.sitemap.SitemapModelComponent}
* interface to gain access to the <code>resolver</code>, <code>objectModel</code>,
* <code>source</code> or <code>parameters</code> objects.
*
* @author <a href="mailto:pier@apache.org">Pierpaolo Fumagalli</a>
* (Apache Software Foundation)
* @version CVS $Id$
*/
public interface Serializer extends XMLConsumer, SitemapOutputComponent {
String ROLE = Serializer.class.getName();
}