/*

 * Copyright 2001-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.

 * 

 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

 * You may obtain a copy of the License at

 * 

 *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

 * 

 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software

 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,

 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.

 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and

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 */

package org.jboss.axis.components.encoding;


/**
 * Interface for XMLEncoders
 */

public interface XMLEncoder
{

   /**
    * gets the encoding supported by this encoder
    *
    * @return
    */

   public String getEncoding();


   /**
    * encode a given string
    *
    * @param xmlString string to be encoded
    * @return encoded string
    */

   String encode(String xmlString);

}