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public interface: LSOutput [javadoc | source] This interface represents an output destination for data.

This interface allows an application to encapsulate information about an output destination in a single object, which may include a URI, a byte stream (possibly with a specified encoding), a base URI, and/or a character stream.

The exact definitions of a byte stream and a character stream are binding dependent.

The application is expected to provide objects that implement this interface whenever such objects are needed. The application can either provide its own objects that implement this interface, or it can use the generic factory method DOMImplementationLS.createLSOutput() to create objects that implement this interface.

The LSSerializer will use the LSOutput object to determine where to serialize the output to. The LSSerializer will look at the different outputs specified in the LSOutput in the following order to know which one to output to, the first one that is not null and not an empty string will be used:

  1. LSOutput.characterStream
  2. LSOutput.byteStream
  3. LSOutput.systemId

LSOutput objects belong to the application. The DOM implementation will never modify them (though it may make copies and modify the copies, if necessary).

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification.
Method from org.w3c.dom.ls.LSOutput Summary:
getByteStream,   getCharacterStream,   getEncoding,   getSystemId,   setByteStream,   setCharacterStream,   setEncoding,   setSystemId
Method from org.w3c.dom.ls.LSOutput Detail:
 public OutputStream getByteStream()
    An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents 
a writable stream of bytes.
 public Writer getCharacterStream()
    An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents 
a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.
 public String getEncoding()
    The character encoding to use for the output. The encoding must be a 
string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([XML 1.0] section 
4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that 
character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet 
Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA-CHARSETS]
 should be referred to using their registered names.
 public String getSystemId()
    The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this 
output destination. 

     If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the 
behavior is implementation dependent.
 public  void setByteStream(OutputStream byteStream)
    An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents 
a writable stream of bytes.
 public  void setCharacterStream(Writer characterStream)
    An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents 
a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output.
 public  void setEncoding(String encoding)
    The character encoding to use for the output. The encoding must be a 
string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([XML 1.0] section 
4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"), it is recommended that 
character encodings registered (as charsets) with the Internet 
Assigned Numbers Authority [IANA-CHARSETS]
 should be referred to using their registered names.
 public  void setSystemId(String systemId)
    The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this 
output destination. 

     If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the 
behavior is implementation dependent.