/**

  * Copyright 2005-2011 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.krad.service;

 import org.kuali.rice.krad.document.Document;

 /**

  * Implementations of this interface are able to serialize documents into XML that's used by the workflow engine to perform routing, searches,

  * etc.

  *

  */

 public interface DocumentSerializerService extends SerializerService  {

     /**

      * Serializes a document into XML for the workflow engine

      * 

      * @param document the document

      * @return a XML representation of the document

      */

     public String serializeDocumentToXmlForRouting(Document document);

 }