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// $Id: Result.java 446598 2006-09-15 12:55:40Z jeremias $
package javax.xml.transform;
/**
* <p>An object that implements this interface contains the information
* needed to build a transformation result tree.</p>
*
* @author <a href="Jeff.Suttor@Sun.com">Jeff Suttor</a>
*/
public interface Result {
/**
* The name of the processing instruction that is sent if the
* result tree disables output escaping.
*
* <p>Normally, result tree serialization escapes & and < (and
* possibly other characters) when outputting text nodes.
* This ensures that the output is well-formed XML. However,
* it is sometimes convenient to be able to produce output that is
* almost, but not quite well-formed XML; for example,
* the output may include ill-formed sections that will
* be transformed into well-formed XML by a subsequent non-XML aware
* process. If a processing instruction is sent with this name,
* serialization should be output without any escaping. </p>
*
* <p>Result DOM trees may also have PI_DISABLE_OUTPUT_ESCAPING and
* PI_ENABLE_OUTPUT_ESCAPING inserted into the tree.</p>
*
* @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#disable-output-escaping">disable-output-escaping in XSLT Specification</a>
*/
public static final String PI_DISABLE_OUTPUT_ESCAPING =
"javax.xml.transform.disable-output-escaping";
/**
* The name of the processing instruction that is sent
* if the result tree enables output escaping at some point after having
* received a PI_DISABLE_OUTPUT_ESCAPING processing instruction.
*
* @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#disable-output-escaping">disable-output-escaping in XSLT Specification</a>
*/
public static final String PI_ENABLE_OUTPUT_ESCAPING =
"javax.xml.transform.enable-output-escaping";
/**
* Set the system identifier for this Result.
*
* <p>If the Result is not to be written to a file, the system identifier is optional.
* The application may still want to provide one, however, for use in error messages
* and warnings, or to resolve relative output identifiers.</p>
*
* @param systemId The system identifier as a URI string.
*/
public void setSystemId(String systemId);
/**
* Get the system identifier that was set with setSystemId.
*
* @return The system identifier that was set with setSystemId,
* or null if setSystemId was not called.
*/
public String getSystemId();
}