tapestry-core/src/main/java/org/apache/tapestry5/dom/MarkupModel.java

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package org.apache.tapestry5.dom;

/**
 * Used by a the DOM to determine how to produce markup. Delegates details about converted entities and some formatting
 * details.  This exists to handle the differences between traditional HTML output (which is SGML based, meaning there
 * can be elements that are valid without a close tag) and "modern" XML, such as XHTML.  Generally speaking, for XHTML
 * it is vital that a !DOCTYPE be included in the rendered response, or the browser will be unable to display the result
 * properly.
 */
public interface MarkupModel
{
    /**
     * Encodes the characters into the buffer, converting control characters (such as '<') into corresponding
     * entities (such as <).
     *
     * @param content to be filtered
     * @param buffer  to receive the filtered content
     */
    void encode(String content, StringBuilder buffer);

    /**
     * Encodes the characters into the buffer for use in a quoted value (that is, an attribute value), converting
     * control characters (such as '<') into corresponding entities (such as <). In addition, double quotes
     * must be quoted or otherwise escaped.
     *
     * @param content to be filtered
     * @param buffer  to receive the filtered content
     */
    void encodeQuoted(String content, StringBuilder buffer);

    /**
     * For a given element, determines how the end tag for the element should be rendered.
     */
    EndTagStyle getEndTagStyle(String element);

    /**
     * Returns true if the document markup is XML, which is used to determine the need for an XML declaration at the
     * start of the document, and whether CDATA sections are supported.
     *
     * @return true for XML output, false for HTML (SGML) output
     */
    boolean isXML();
}