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package javax.xml.stream;

import javax.xml.namespace.NamespaceContext;
import javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent;
import javax.xml.stream.util.XMLEventConsumer;

/**
 * Interface for writing XML documents from a series of events.
 */
public interface XMLEventWriter
  extends XMLEventConsumer
{

  /**
   * Ensures that any cached events are written to the underlying output
   * sink.
   */
  void flush()
    throws XMLStreamException;

  /**
   * Frees any resources used by this writer.
   */
  void close()
    throws XMLStreamException;

  /**
   * Adds the specified event to this writer.
   */
  void add(XMLEvent event)
    throws XMLStreamException;

  /**
   * Adds the specified XML stream to this writer.
   * The implementation will call <code>next</code> on the given argument
   * while <code>hasNext</code> returns true.
   */
  void add(XMLEventReader reader)
    throws XMLStreamException;

  /**
   * Returns the namespace prefix the specified URI is currently associated
   * with.
   */
  String getPrefix(String uri)
    throws XMLStreamException;

  /**
   * Associates the given namespace prefix and URI.
   */
  void setPrefix(String prefix, String uri)
    throws XMLStreamException;

  /**
   * Sets the current default namespace URI.
   */
  void setDefaultNamespace(String uri)
    throws XMLStreamException;

  /**
   * Sets the namespace context for managing namespace prefixes and URIs.
   */
  void setNamespaceContext(NamespaceContext context)
    throws XMLStreamException;

  /**
   * Returns the namespace context.
   */
  NamespaceContext getNamespaceContext();
  
}