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 * easySchema - easyWSDL toolbox Platform.
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package org.ow2.easywsdl.schema.api;

import java.io.OutputStream;

import org.w3c.dom.Document;

/**
 * This interface describes a collection of methods that allow a SchemaImpl
 * model to be written to a writer in an XML format that follows the SchemaImpl
 * parent.
 * 
 * @author Nicolas Salatge - eBM WebSourcing
 */
public interface SchemaWriter {
    /**
     * Sets the specified feature to the specified value.
     * <p>
     * There are no minimum features that must be supported.
     * <p>
     * All feature names must be fully-qualified, Java package style. All names
     * starting with javax.wsdl. are reserved for features defined by the
     * JSchema specification. It is recommended that implementation- specific
     * features be fully-qualified to match the package name of that
     * implementation. For example: com.abc.featureName
     * 
     * @param name
     *            the name of the feature to be set.
     * @param value
     *            the value to set the feature to.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *             if the feature name is not recognized.
     * @see #getFeature(String)
     */
    void setFeature(String name, boolean value) throws IllegalArgumentException;

    /**
     * Gets the value of the specified feature.
     * 
     * @param name
     *            the name of the feature to get the value of.
     * @return the value of the feature.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException
     *             if the feature name is not recognized.
     * @see #setFeature(String, boolean)
     */
    boolean getFeature(String name) throws IllegalArgumentException;

    /**
     * Return a document generated from the specified SchemaImpl model.
     */
    Document getDocument(Schema schemaDef) throws SchemaException;
    
	void writeSchema(final Schema schemaDef, OutputStream output) throws SchemaException;

}