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org.w3c.dom.ls

public Interface LSOutput

Known Direct Implementers
com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.DOMOutputImpl, com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer.dom3.DOMOutputImpl

This interface represents an output destination for data.

This interface allows an application to encapsulate information about an output destination in a single object, which may include a URI, a byte stream (possibly with a specified encoding), a base URI, and/or a character stream.

The exact definitions of a byte stream and a character stream are binding dependent.

The application is expected to provide objects that implement this interface whenever such objects are needed. The application can either provide its own objects that implement this interface, or it can use the generic factory method DOMImplementationLS.createLSOutput() to create objects that implement this interface.

The LSSerializer will use the LSOutput object to determine where to serialize the output to. The LSSerializer will look at the different outputs specified in the LSOutput in the following order to know which one to output to, the first one that is not null and not an empty string will be used:

  1. LSOutput.characterStream
  2. LSOutput.byteStream
  3. LSOutput.systemId

LSOutput objects belong to the application. The DOM implementation will never modify them (though it may make copies and modify the copies, if necessary).

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification.

Since
1.5

Method Summary

Modifier and TypeMethod and Description
public OutputStream
getByteStream()

An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream of bytes.

public Writer
getCharacterStream()

An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.

public String
getEncoding()

The character encoding to use for the output.

public String
getSystemId()

The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this output destination.

public void
setByteStream(OutputStream byteStream)

An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream of bytes.

public void
setCharacterStream(Writer characterStream)

An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.

public void
setEncoding(String encoding)

The character encoding to use for the output.

public void
setSystemId(String systemId)

The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this output destination.

Method Detail

getByteStreamback to summary
public OutputStream getByteStream()

An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream of bytes.

getCharacterStreamback to summary
public Writer getCharacterStream()

An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.

getEncodingback to summary
public String getEncoding()

The character encoding to use for the output. The encoding must be a string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([XML 1.0] section 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA-CHARSETS] should be referred to using their registered names.

getSystemIdback to summary
public String getSystemId()

The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this output destination.
If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the behavior is implementation dependent.

setByteStreamback to summary
public void setByteStream(OutputStream byteStream)

An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream of bytes.

setCharacterStreamback to summary
public void setCharacterStream(Writer characterStream)

An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.

setEncodingback to summary
public void setEncoding(String encoding)

The character encoding to use for the output. The encoding must be a string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([XML 1.0] section 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA-CHARSETS] should be referred to using their registered names.

setSystemIdback to summary
public void setSystemId(String systemId)

The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this output destination.
If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the behavior is implementation dependent.