package org.hl7.fhir.utilities.xml;

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import java.io.IOException;

import org.hl7.fhir.utilities.ElementDecoration;


/**
 * Generalize 
 * @author dennisn
 */
public interface IXMLWriter {
	
  public abstract void start() throws IOException;
  public abstract void end() throws IOException;

	public abstract void attribute(String namespace, String name, String value, boolean onlyIfNotEmpty) throws IOException;
	public abstract void attribute(String namespace, String name, String value) throws IOException;
	public abstract void attribute(String name, String value, boolean onlyIfNotEmpty) throws IOException;
	public abstract void attribute(String name, String value) throws IOException;
	public abstract void attributeNoLines(String name, String value) throws IOException;

	public abstract boolean namespaceDefined(String namespace);
	public abstract boolean abbreviationDefined(String abbreviation);
	public abstract String getDefaultNamespace();
	public abstract void namespace(String namespace) throws IOException;
	public abstract void setDefaultNamespace(String namespace) throws IOException;
	public abstract void namespace(String namespace, String abbreviation) throws IOException;
	
	public abstract void comment(String comment, boolean doPretty) throws IOException;
	public abstract void decorate(ElementDecoration decoration) throws IOException;
	public abstract void setSchemaLocation(String ns, String loc) throws IOException;

  public abstract void enter(String name) throws IOException;
	public abstract void enter(String namespace, String name) throws IOException;
	public abstract void enter(String namespace, String name, String comment) throws IOException;
	
  public abstract void exit() throws IOException;
	public abstract void exit(String name) throws IOException;
	public abstract void exit(String namespace, String name) throws IOException;
	public abstract void exitToLevel(int count) throws IOException;


	public abstract void element(String namespace, String name, String content,	boolean onlyIfNotEmpty) throws IOException;
	public abstract void element(String namespace, String name, String content,	String comment) throws IOException;
	public abstract void element(String namespace, String name, String content)	throws IOException;
	public abstract void element(String name, String content,	boolean onlyIfNotEmpty) throws IOException;
	public abstract void element(String name, String content)	throws IOException;
	public abstract void element(String name) throws IOException;

	public abstract void text(String content) throws IOException;
	public abstract void text(String content, boolean dontEscape) throws IOException;

	public abstract void cData(String text) throws IOException;

	public abstract void writeBytes(byte[] bytes) throws IOException;

	public abstract boolean isPretty() throws IOException;
	public abstract void setPretty(boolean pretty) throws IOException;

	/**
	 * Start comment inserts a <!-- in the stream, but allows the user to 
	 * go on creating xml content as usual, with proper formatting applied etc.
	 * Any comments inserted inside a comment will be terminated with -- > instead of -->
	 * so the comment doesn't close prematurely.
	 * @throws IOException 
	 */
	public abstract void startCommentBlock() throws IOException;
	public abstract void endCommentBlock() throws IOException;
	public abstract void escapedText(String content) throws IOException;
	
	// this is only implemented by an implementation that is producing an xhtml representation, and is able to render elements as hyperlinks 
  public abstract void link(String href);
  public abstract void anchor(String name);
}