45 lines
1.6 KiB
Java
45 lines
1.6 KiB
Java
/*
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* Copyright 2008 National Library of Sweden
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*
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* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
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* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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* You may obtain a copy of the License at
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*
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* http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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*
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* Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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* distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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* WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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* See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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* limitations under the License.
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*/
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package se.kb.oai.ore;
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import java.io.File;
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import java.io.IOException;
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import org.dom4j.Element;
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/**
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* A <code>ResourceMapSerializer</code> is used to serialize the content of a
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* {@link ResourceMap} to a machine readable format (for example XML). Different
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* implementations of this interface will handle serialization to different formats.
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* <p>
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* At the moment the Open Archive Initiative describes two possible serialization formats:
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* <ul>
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* <li> Atom - <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.2/atom-implementation">http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.2/atom-implementation</a>
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* <li> RDF/XML - <a href="http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.2/rdfsyntax">http://www.openarchives.org/ore/0.2/rdfsyntax</a>
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* </ul>
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*
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* @author Oskar Grenholm, National Library of Sweden
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*/
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public interface ResourceMapSerializer {
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public void serializeToFile(File file, ResourceMap map) throws IOException;
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public String serializeToString(ResourceMap map) throws IOException;
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public Element serializeToXml(ResourceMap map);
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}
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