gecko-dev/content/base/public/nsIContentSerializer.h

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#ifndef _nsIContentSerializer_h__
#define _nsIContentSerializer_h__

#include "nsISupports.h"

class nsIContent;
class nsIDocument;
class nsAString;

/* starting interface:    nsIContentSerializer */

#define NS_ICONTENTSERIALIZER_IID \
{ 0xb1ee32f2, 0xb8c4, 0x49b9, \
  { 0x93, 0xdf, 0xb6, 0xfa, 0xb5, 0xd5, 0x46, 0x88 } }

class nsIContentSerializer : public nsISupports {
 public: 

  NS_DECLARE_STATIC_IID_ACCESSOR(NS_ICONTENTSERIALIZER_IID)

  NS_IMETHOD Init(PRUint32 flags, PRUint32 aWrapColumn,
                  const char* aCharSet, PRBool aIsCopying,
                  PRBool aIsWholeDocument) = 0;

  NS_IMETHOD AppendText(nsIContent* aText, PRInt32 aStartOffset,
                        PRInt32 aEndOffset, nsAString& aStr) = 0;

  NS_IMETHOD AppendCDATASection(nsIContent* aCDATASection,
                                PRInt32 aStartOffset, PRInt32 aEndOffset,
                                nsAString& aStr) = 0;

  NS_IMETHOD AppendProcessingInstruction(nsIContent* aPI,
                                         PRInt32 aStartOffset,
                                         PRInt32 aEndOffset,
                                         nsAString& aStr) = 0;

  NS_IMETHOD AppendComment(nsIContent* aComment, PRInt32 aStartOffset,
                           PRInt32 aEndOffset, nsAString& aStr) = 0;

  NS_IMETHOD AppendDoctype(nsIContent *aDoctype,
                           nsAString& aStr) = 0;

  NS_IMETHOD AppendElementStart(nsIContent *aElement,
                                nsIContent *aOriginalElement,
                                nsAString& aStr) = 0;

  NS_IMETHOD AppendElementEnd(nsIContent *aElement,
                              nsAString& aStr) = 0;

  NS_IMETHOD Flush(nsAString& aStr) = 0;

  /**
   * Append any items in the beginning of the document that won't be 
   * serialized by other methods. XML declaration is the most likely 
   * thing this method can produce.
   */
  NS_IMETHOD AppendDocumentStart(nsIDocument *aDocument,
                                 nsAString& aStr) = 0;
};

NS_DEFINE_STATIC_IID_ACCESSOR(nsIContentSerializer, NS_ICONTENTSERIALIZER_IID)

#define NS_CONTENTSERIALIZER_CONTRACTID_PREFIX \
"@mozilla.org/layout/contentserializer;1?mimetype="

#endif /* __gen_nsIContentSerializer_h__ */