// XAAL toolkit
// Copyright (C) 2009 Ville Karavirta <vkaravir(a)cs.hut.fi>
//
// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
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//
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package xaal.adapters;

import java.io.OutputStream;

import xaal.objects.Xaal;

/**
 * Interface for adapters that adapt a Xaal objects hierarchy into some other
 * format. 
 * 
 * @author vkaravir
 */
public interface XaalObjectsAdapter {
    
    /**
     * Adapts the given Xaal object hierarchy into another format and writes the
     * output to the given Writer.
     * 
     * @param xaal The Xaal hierarchy to adapt.
     * @param out The output Writer.
     */
    public void adapt(Xaal xaal, OutputStream out);
}