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+/*
+ * reserved comment block
+ * DO NOT REMOVE OR ALTER!
+ */
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+ * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+ * distributed with this work for additional information
+ * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+ * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+ * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
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+ *
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+ *
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+ */
+package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.security.encryption;
+
+import com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.security.c14n.Canonicalizer;
+import org.w3c.dom.Element;
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
+
+/**
+ * Converts <code>String</code>s into <code>Node</code>s and visa versa.
+ */
+public interface Serializer {
+    
+    /**
+     * Set the Canonicalizer object to use.
+     */
+    void setCanonicalizer(Canonicalizer canon);
+    
+    /**
+     * Returns a <code>byte[]</code> representation of the specified
+     * <code>Element</code>.
+     *
+     * @param element the <code>Element</code> to serialize.
+     * @return the <code>byte[]</code> representation of the serilaized
+     *   <code>Element</code>.
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    byte[] serializeToByteArray(Element element) throws Exception;
+
+    /**
+     * Returns a <code>byte[]</code> representation of the specified
+     * <code>NodeList</code>.
+     * 
+     * @param content the <code>NodeList</code> to serialize.
+     * @return the <code>byte[]</code> representation of the serialized
+     *   <code>NodeList</code>.
+     * @throws Exception
+     */
+    byte[] serializeToByteArray(NodeList content) throws Exception;
+
+    /**
+     * Use the Canonicalizer to serialize the node
+     * @param node
+     * @return the (byte[]) canonicalization of the node
+     * @throws Exception
+     */ 
+    byte[] canonSerializeToByteArray(Node node) throws Exception;
+
+    /**
+     * @param source
+     * @param ctx
+     * @return the Node resulting from the parse of the source
+     * @throws XMLEncryptionException
+     */
+    Node deserialize(byte[] source, Node ctx) throws XMLEncryptionException;
+}