1 // Copyright (c) 2006-2009 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies).

     2 // All rights reserved.

     3 // This component and the accompanying materials are made available

     4 // under the terms of "Eclipse Public License v1.0"

     5 // which accompanies this distribution, and is available

     6 // at the URL "http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html".

     7 //

     8 // Initial Contributors:

     9 // Nokia Corporation - initial contribution.

    10 //

    11 // Contributors:

    12 //

    13 // Description:

    14 // Interface class describing class that may be used as

    15 // serializer for binary data

    16 //

    17 

    18 

    19 

    20 /**

    21  @file

    22  @publishedAll

    23  @released

    24 */

    25 #ifndef XMLENGMDATASERIALIZER_H

    26 #define XMLENGMDATASERIALIZER_H

    27 

    28 #include <xml/dom/xmlengnode.h>

    29 

    30 /**

    31 This interface is used to serialize binary data stored in a node, external

    32 memory chunk (RChunk) or file.  This interface may be implemented by client

    33 applications.

    34 @see TXmlEngSerializationOptions

    35 */

    36 class MXmlEngDataSerializer

    37     {

    38 public:

    39     /** 

    40 	Serializes the node.  The implementor of this class must allocate and own

    41 	the memory returned by this method until serialization is complete.

    42     @param aNode A node to serialize

    43     @return The serialized node

    44 	@leave - One of the system-wide error codes

    45     */

    46     virtual TPtrC8 SerializeDataL(TXmlEngNode aNode) = 0;

    47     };

    48 

    49 

    50 #endif /* XMLENGMDATASERIALIZER_H */