owlapi-version5/parsers/src/main/java/org/semanticweb/owlapi/rdf/rdfxml/renderer/XMLWriter.java
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package org.semanticweb.owlapi.rdf.rdfxml.renderer;

import org.semanticweb.owlapi.model.IRI;

/**
 * Developed as part of the CO-ODE project http://www.co-ode.org .
 *
 * @author Matthew Horridge, The University Of Manchester, Medical Informatics Group
 * @since 2.0.0
 */
public interface XMLWriter {

    /**
     * Sets the encoding for the document that the RDF writer produces. The default encoding is
     * {@code UTF-8}.
     *
     * @param encoding The encoding.
     */
    void setEncoding(String encoding);

    /**
     * Gets the Writer's namespace manager.
     *
     * @return The namespace manager.
     */
    XMLWriterNamespaceManager getNamespacePrefixes();

    /**
     * @return the XML base
     */
    String getXMLBase();

    /**
     * Causes the current element's attributes to be wrapped in the output.
     *
     * @param b If {@code true} then the attributes will be wrapped if they are long. If {@code
     * false} then no attribute wrapping will occur.
     */
    void setWrapAttributes(boolean b);

    /**
     * Starts writing the document. The root element will contain the namespace declarations and
     * xml:base attribute.
     *
     * @param rootElement The iri of the root element.
     */
    void startDocument(IRI rootElement);

    /**
     * Causes all open elements, including the document root element, to be closed.
     */
    void endDocument();

    /**
     * Writes the start of an element.
     *
     * @param name The tag name of the element to be written. This must be a valid QName. @throws
     *        IllegalElementNameException if the specified name is not a valid QName
     */
    void writeStartElement(IRI name);

    /**
     * Writes the closing tag of the last element to be started.
     */
    void writeEndElement();

    /**
     * Writes an attribute of the last element to be started (that has not been closed). Note: if
     * the attribute is an iri, use writeAttribute(IRI, String
     *
     * @param attr The name of the attribute
     * @param val The value of the attribute
     */
    void writeAttribute(String attr, String val);

    /**
     * Writes an attribute of the last element to be started (that has not been closed).
     *
     * @param attr The name of the attribute
     * @param val The value of the attribute
     */
    void writeAttribute(IRI attr, String val);

    /**
     * Writes a text element.
     *
     * @param text The text to be written
     */
    void writeTextContent(String text);

    /**
     * @param commentText comment text
     */
    void writeComment(String commentText);
}
