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1 package org.apache.velocity.anakia;
2
3 /*
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17  */

18
19 import java.io.IOException JavaDoc;
20 import java.io.StringWriter JavaDoc;
21
22 import org.jdom.Element;
23 import org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter;
24
25 /**
26  * This class extends XMLOutputter in order to provide
27  * a way to walk an Element tree into a String.
28  *
29  * @author <a HREF="mailto:jon@latchkey.com">Jon S. Stevens</a>
30  * @author <a HREF="mailto:rubys@us.ibm.com">Sam Ruby</a>
31  * @version $Id: OutputWrapper.java,v 1.6.4.1 2004/03/03 23:22:04 geirm Exp $
32  */

33 public class OutputWrapper extends XMLOutputter
34 {
35     /**
36      * Empty constructor
37      */

38     public OutputWrapper()
39     {
40     }
41     
42     /**
43      * This method walks an Element tree into a String. The cool
44      * thing about it is that it will strip off the first Element.
45      * For example, if you have:
46      * <p>
47      * &lt;td&gt; foo &lt;strong&gt;bar&lt;/strong&gt; ack &lt;/td&gt;
48      * </p>
49      * It will output
50      * <p>
51      * foo &lt;strong&gt;bar&lt;/strong&gt; ack &lt;/td&gt;
52      * </p>
53      */

54     public String JavaDoc outputString(Element element, boolean strip)
55     {
56         StringWriter JavaDoc buff = new StringWriter JavaDoc();
57         String JavaDoc name = element.getName();
58
59         try
60         {
61             outputElementContent(element, buff);
62         }
63         catch (IOException JavaDoc e)
64         {
65         }
66         return buff.toString();
67     }
68 }
69
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