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package org.kabeja.xml;

import java.io.OutputStream;

import org.kabeja.processing.Configurable;
import org.xml.sax.ContentHandler;


/**
 *This interface describes a Serializer, which will serialize the SAX-Events
 *to the given stream.
 *<h3>Lifecycle</h3>
 *
 * <ol>
 * <li>setProperties</li>
 * <li>getSuffix()</li>
 * <li>getMimeType()</li>
 * <li>setOutput()</li>
 * <li>startDocument and all other methods from org.xml.sax.ContentHandler </li>
 * </ol>
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:simon.mieth@gmx.de">Simon Mieth</a>
 *
 */
public interface SAXSerializer extends ContentHandler, Configurable {
    public String getSuffix();

    public String getMimeType();

    public void setOutput(OutputStream out);
}