1 /*
2 * Copyright 2007-2008 The Kuali Foundation
3 *
4 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
6 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
7 *
8 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
9 *
10 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
11 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
12 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
13 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
14 * limitations under the License.
15 */
16 package org.kuali.rice.kns.service;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.kns.document.Document;
19
20 /**
21 * Implementations of this interface are able to serialize documents into XML that's used by the workflow engine to perform routing, searches,
22 * etc.
23 *
24 */
25 public interface DocumentSerializerService extends SerializerService {
26 /**
27 * Serializes a document into XML for the workflow engine
28 *
29 * @param document the document
30 * @return a XML representation of the document
31 */
32 public String serializeDocumentToXmlForRouting(Document document);
33
34 }