/*

  * Copyright 2005-2008 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,

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  * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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 package org.kuali.rice.kew.routeheader;

 import java.io.Serializable;

 import org.kuali.rice.kew.engine.RouteContext;

 import org.w3c.dom.Document;

 import org.w3c.dom.Element;

 /**

  * A facade for the XML content of the document.  Provides methods for

  * accessing the various relevant portions of the content as well as the

  * entire document content in DOM or String form.  If the document does

  * not contain a particular piece, then the associated getter should return

  * null.

  * 

  * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)

  */

 public interface DocumentContent extends Serializable {

     public Document getDocument();

     public Element getApplicationContent();

     public Element getAttributeContent();

     public Element getSearchableContent();

     public String getDocContent();

     /*

      * This method is a total hacks, once we fix the interface for role attributes and regular attributes, they can go away

      */

     public RouteContext getRouteContext();

 }