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package org.apache.axiom.ts.dimension.serialization;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintStream;

import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;

import org.xml.sax.InputSource;

/**
 * Encapsulates serialized XML data. In contrast to {@link InputSource} or {@link StreamSource} the
 * data can be read multiple times.
 */
public interface XML {
    /**
     * Get an {@link InputSource} object for the XML data.
     *
     * @return the XML data as an {@link InputSource} object
     */
    InputSource getInputSource();

    /**
     * Dump the XML data to the given stream.
     *
     * @param out the stream to write the XML data to
     * @throws IOException
     */
    void dump(PrintStream out) throws IOException;
}
