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package org.teiid.core.types;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;
/**
* This an interface defined to convert the various kinds of the XML sources
* defined into a character stream.
*/
public abstract class XMLTranslator {
public abstract void translate(Writer writer) throws TransformerException, IOException;
public String getString() throws IOException, TransformerException {
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
this.translate(writer);
return writer.toString();
}
}