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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.xmlgraphics.util;

/*
 * Copied from Apache Excalibur:
 * https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/excalibur/trunk/components/xmlutil/
 *                                           src/java/org/apache/excalibur/xml/sax/XMLizable.java
 */

import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * This interface can be implemented by classes willing to provide an XML representation
 * of their current state as SAX events.
 */
public interface XMLizable {

    /**
     * Generates SAX events representing the object's state.
     * @param handler ContentHandler instance to send the SAX events to
     * @throws SAXException if there's a problem generating the SAX events
     */
    void toSAX(ContentHandler handler) throws SAXException;

}