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package org.apache.cocoon.components.sax;

import org.apache.cocoon.xml.AbstractSAXFragment;
import org.apache.cocoon.xml.EmbeddedXMLPipe;
import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

/**
 * An XMLByteStream wrapped by an XMLFragment implementation. This allows to
 * store SAX events and insert them in an XSP result using <xsp:expr>.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:sylvain@apache.org">Sylvain Wallez</a>
 * @version CVS $Id$
 */
public class XMLByteStreamFragment extends AbstractSAXFragment {

    /** The XML byte stream */
    private Object xmlBytes;

    /**
     * Creates a new <code>XMLByteStreamFragment</code> defined by the given
     * XML byte stream.
     *
     * @param bytes the XML byte stream representing the document fragment
     */
    public XMLByteStreamFragment(Object bytes) {
        this.xmlBytes = bytes;
    }

    /**
     * Output the fragment. If the fragment is a document, start/endDocument
     * events are discarded.
     */
    public void toSAX(ContentHandler ch) throws SAXException {
        // Stream bytes and discard start/endDocument
        XMLByteStreamInterpreter deserializer = new XMLByteStreamInterpreter();
        deserializer.setContentHandler(new EmbeddedXMLPipe(ch));
        deserializer.deserialize(this.xmlBytes);
    }
}