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/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 2; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
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#include "nsISupports.idl"
interface nsIOutputStream;
interface nsIDOMNode;
/**
* The nsIDOMSerializer interface is really a placeholder till the W3C
* DOM Working Group defines a mechanism for serializing DOM nodes.
* An instance of this interface can be used to serialize a DOM document
* or any DOM subtree.
*/
[scriptable, uuid(9fd4ba15-e67c-4c98-b52c-7715f62c9196)]
interface nsIDOMSerializer : nsISupports
{
/**
* The subtree rooted by the specified element is serialized to
* a string.
*
* @param root The root of the subtree to be serialized. This could
* be any node, including a Document.
* @returns The serialized subtree in the form of a Unicode string
*/
AString serializeToString(in nsIDOMNode root);
/**
* The subtree rooted by the specified element is serialized to
* a byte stream using the character set specified.
* @param root The root of the subtree to be serialized. This could
* be any node, including a Document.
* @param stream The byte stream to which the subtree is serialized.
* @param charset The name of the character set to use for the encoding
* to a byte stream. If this string is empty and root is
* a document, the document's character set will be used.
*/
void serializeToStream(in nsIDOMNode root, in nsIOutputStream stream,
in AUTF8String charset);
};
%{ C++
#define NS_XMLSERIALIZER_CID \
{ /* a6cf9124-15b3-11d2-932e-00805f8add32 */ \
0xa6cf9124, 0x15b3, 0x11d2, \
{0x93, 0x2e, 0x00, 0x80, 0x5f, 0x8a, 0xdd, 0x32} }
#define NS_XMLSERIALIZER_CONTRACTID \
"@mozilla.org/xmlextras/xmlserializer;1"
%}