/**
 *
 * Copyright 2003-2004 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
 *
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 *
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//
// This source code implements specifications defined by the Java
// Community Process. In order to remain compliant with the specification
// DO NOT add / change / or delete method signatures!
//

package javax.servlet.jsp.tagext;

import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * Translation-time information on a JSP page.  The information
 * corresponds to the XML view of the JSP page.
 *
 * <p>
 * Objects of this type are generated by the JSP translator, e.g.
 * when being pased to a TagLibraryValidator instance.
 */

abstract public class PageData {

    /**
     * Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, 
     * typically implicit.)
     */
    public PageData() {
    }
    
    /**
     * Returns an input stream on the XML view of a JSP page.
     * The stream is encoded in UTF-8.  Recall tht the XML view of a 
     * JSP page has the include directives expanded.
     * 
     * @return An input stream on the document.
     */
   abstract public InputStream getInputStream();
}
