/*

  * Copyright 2005-2007 The Kuali Foundation

  * 

  * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

  * You may obtain a copy of the License at

  * 

  * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php

  * 

  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

  * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

  * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

  * limitations under the License.

  */

 package org.kuali.rice.kns.service;

 import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;

 /**

  * This interface defines methods that an XmlObjectSerializer Service must provide. This will wrap our needs for xml to object and

  * object to xml functionality.

  * 

  * 

  */

 public interface XmlObjectSerializerService {

     /**

      * Marshals out XML from an object instance.

      * 

      * @param object

      * @return

      */

     public String toXml(Object object);

     /**

      * Retrieves an Object instance from a String of XML - unmarshals.

      * 

      * @param xml

      * @return

      */

     public Object fromXml(String xml);

     /**

      * Renders an org.w3c.Node to a String.

      */

     public String writeNode(org.w3c.dom.Node node, boolean indent) throws TransformerException;

 }