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1   /**
2    * Portions of this software was developed by employees of the National Institute
3    * of Standards and Technology (NIST), an agency of the Federal Government and is
4    * being made available as a public service. Pursuant to title 17 United States
5    * Code Section 105, works of NIST employees are not subject to copyright
6    * protection in the United States. This software may be subject to foreign
7    * copyright. Permission in the United States and in foreign countries, to the
8    * extent that NIST may hold copyright, to use, copy, modify, create derivative
9    * works, and distribute this software and its documentation without fee is hereby
10   * granted on a non-exclusive basis, provided that this notice and disclaimer
11   * of warranty appears in all copies.
12   *
13   * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS' WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER
14   * EXPRESSED, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY WARRANTY
15   * THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL CONFORM TO SPECIFICATIONS, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
16   * MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND FREEDOM FROM
17   * INFRINGEMENT, AND ANY WARRANTY THAT THE DOCUMENTATION WILL CONFORM TO THE
18   * SOFTWARE, OR ANY WARRANTY THAT THE SOFTWARE WILL BE ERROR FREE.  IN NO EVENT
19   * SHALL NIST BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DIRECT,
20   * INDIRECT, SPECIAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES, ARISING OUT OF, RESULTING FROM,
21   * OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER OR NOT BASED UPON WARRANTY,
22   * CONTRACT, TORT, OR OTHERWISE, WHETHER OR NOT INJURY WAS SUSTAINED BY PERSONS OR
23   * PROPERTY OR OTHERWISE, AND WHETHER OR NOT LOSS WAS SUSTAINED FROM, OR AROSE OUT
24   * OF THE RESULTS OF, OR USE OF, THE SOFTWARE OR SERVICES PROVIDED HEREUNDER.
25   */
26  
27  package gov.nist.secauto.decima.xml.document;
28  
29  import gov.nist.secauto.decima.core.document.Document;
30  import gov.nist.secauto.decima.core.document.DocumentException;
31  import gov.nist.secauto.decima.xml.document.context.XMLContextResolver;
32  
33  import org.jdom2.Element;
34  import org.jdom2.output.Format;
35  
36  import java.io.File;
37  import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
38  import java.io.IOException;
39  
40  import javax.xml.transform.Source;
41  import javax.xml.xpath.XPathFactoryConfigurationException;
42  
43  /**
44   * Represents an instance of XML that can be reused for various forms of XML processing.
45   * Implementations of this class can choose to locally cache the XML and apply any pre-processing
46   * steps required to prepare the XML for use.
47   */
48  public interface XMLDocument extends Document, XMLContextResolver {
49  
50    /**
51     * Retrieves the document as an XML transformation source. This instance of the document is expected
52     * to be in a ready-to-be-processed state. Modifications to the returned instance should not affect
53     * the actual template. It may be necessary to make a defensive copy to ensure this.
54     * 
55     * @return an input source based on a copy of the template
56     */
57    Source getSource();
58  
59    /**
60     * Returns an XPath 2.0 evaluator.
61     * 
62     * @return the evaluator
63     * @throws XPathFactoryConfigurationException
64     *           if an error occurred while instantiating a new XPathFactory instance
65     */
66    XPathEvaluator newXPathEvaluator() throws XPathFactoryConfigurationException;
67  
68    XMLDocumentFragment newXMLDocumentFragment(String xpath) throws DocumentException;
69  
70    /**
71     * Creates an {@link XMLDocumentFragment} based on a sub-tree of the current document instance.
72     * 
73     * @param element
74     *          the element in the current document instance to use as the base of the sub-tree
75     * @return a new {@link XMLDocumentFragment} for the sub-tree
76     * @throws DocumentException
77     *           if an error occurred while parsing the document
78     */
79    XMLDocumentFragment newXMLDocumentFragment(Element element) throws DocumentException;
80  
81    /**
82     * Provides access to a (defensive) copy of the underlying JDOM document.
83     * 
84     * @return a copy of the underlying JDOM document
85     */
86    org.jdom2.Document getJDOMDocument();
87  
88    /**
89     * Writes a copy of the document to the provided file.
90     * 
91     * @param outputFile
92     *          the file to write to
93     * @throws FileNotFoundException
94     *           if the path to the file does not exist
95     * @throws IOException
96     *           if an error occurs while writing to the file
97     */
98    void copyTo(File outputFile) throws FileNotFoundException, IOException;
99  
100   /**
101    * Retrieves the document as a string.
102    * 
103    * @param format
104    *          the format to use during the conversion
105    * @return a string representation of the document
106    * @throws IOException
107    *           if an error occurs while outputting the document as a dtring
108    */
109   String asString(Format format) throws IOException;
110 
111 }