1 /* 2 * Copyright (c) 2001 World Wide Web Consortium, 3 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de 4 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All 5 * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software 6 * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the 7 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 8 * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 9 * PURPOSE. 10 * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details. 11 */ 12 13 package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom3.as; 14 15 import org.w3c.dom.ls.LSSerializer; 16 17 /** 18 * @deprecated 19 * A Abstract Schema serialization interface. 20 * <p> DOMASWriters provides an API for serializing Abstract Schemas out in 21 * the form of a source Abstract Schema. The Abstract Schema is written to 22 * an output stream, the type of which depends on the specific language 23 * bindings in use. 24 * <p> DOMASWriter is a generic Abstract Schema serialization interface. It 25 * can be applied to both an internal Abstract Schema and/or an external 26 * Abstract Schema. DOMASWriter is applied to serialize a single Abstract 27 * Schema. Serializing a document with an active Internal Abstract Schema 28 * will serialize this internal Abstract Schema with the document as it is 29 * part of the Document (see <code>LSSerializer</code>). 30 * <p>See also the <a HREF='http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-DOM-Level-3-ASLS-20011025'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Abstract Schemas and Load 31 and Save Specification</a>. 32 */ 33 public interface DOMASWriter extends LSSerializer { 34 /** 35 * Write out the specified Abstract Schema to the specified destination. 36 * Does it write a DTD or an XML Schema (or something else)? Is it 37 * possible to use this method to convert a DTD to an XML Schema? 38 * @param destination The destination for the data to be written. 39 * @param model The Abstract Schema to serialize. 40 * @exception DOMSystemException 41 * This exception will be raised in response to any sort of IO or system 42 * error that occurs while writing to the destination. It may wrap an 43 * underlying system exception. 44 */ 45 public void writeASModel(java.io.OutputStream destination, 46 ASModel model) 47 throws Exception; 48 49 } 50