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 package javax.faces.context;

 import javax.faces.component.UIComponent;

 import java.io.IOException;

 import java.io.Writer;

 /**

  * see Javadoc of <a href="http://java.sun.com/javaee/javaserverfaces/1.2/docs/api/index.html">JSF Specification</a>

  * 

  * @author Manfred Geiler (latest modification by $Author: baranda $)

  * @version $Revision: 966679 $ $Date: 2010-07-22 09:21:46 -0500 (Thu, 22 Jul 2010) $

  */

 public abstract class ResponseWriter extends Writer

 {

     public abstract String getContentType();

     public abstract String getCharacterEncoding();

     @Override

     public abstract void flush() throws IOException;

     public abstract void startDocument() throws IOException;

     public abstract void endDocument() throws IOException;

     public abstract void startElement(String name, UIComponent component) throws IOException;

     public abstract void endElement(String name) throws IOException;

     public void startCDATA() throws IOException

     {

         write ("<![CDATA[");

     }

     public void endCDATA() throws IOException

     {

         write ("]]>");

     }

     public abstract void writeAttribute(String name, Object value, String property) throws IOException;

     public abstract void writeURIAttribute(String name, Object value, String property) throws IOException;

     public abstract void writeComment(Object comment) throws IOException;

     public abstract void writeText(Object text, String property) throws IOException;

     public abstract void writeText(char[] text, int off, int len) throws IOException;

     public abstract ResponseWriter cloneWithWriter(Writer writer);

     /**

      * @since 1.2

      */

     public void writeText(Object object, UIComponent component, String string) throws IOException

     {

         writeText(object, string);

     }

 }