1 /**
2 * Copyright 2005-2012 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.coreservice.api.style;
17
18 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.GloballyUnique;
19 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Identifiable;
20 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.Versioned;
21 import org.kuali.rice.core.api.mo.common.active.Inactivatable;
22
23 /**
24 * This is the contract for a Style. A style represents a stylesheet that is used for transforming data from
25 * one format to another (currently only XSL is supported).
26 *
27 * @author Kuali Rice Team (rice.collab@kuali.org)
28 *
29 */
30 public interface StyleContract extends Identifiable, Versioned, GloballyUnique, Inactivatable {
31
32 /**
33 * Returns the name of this style. All styles have a name and this value
34 * can never be null or blank. The name must be unique within the entire
35 * repository of existing styles.
36 *
37 * @return the name of this style
38 */
39 String getName();
40
41 /**
42 * Returns the XML definition of this style as a String.
43 *
44 * @return the xml definition of this style
45 */
46 String getXmlContent();
47 }