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package org.apache.xml.serialize;


import java.util.Hashtable;


/**
 * Holds the state of the currently serialized element.
 *
 * @deprecated This class was deprecated in Xerces 2.9.0. It is recommended 
 * that new applications use the DOM Level 3 LSSerializer or JAXP's Transformation 
 * API for XML (TrAX) for serializing XML. See the Xerces documentation for more 
 * information.
 * @version $Revision: 476047 $ $Date: 2006-11-16 23:27:45 -0500 (Thu, 16 Nov 2006) $
 * @author <a href="mailto:arkin@intalio.com">Assaf Arkin</a>
 * @see BaseMarkupSerializer
 */
public class ElementState
{


    /**
     * The element's raw tag name (local or prefix:local).
     */
    public String rawName;


    /**
     * The element's local tag name.
     */
    public String localName;


    /**
     * The element's namespace URI.
     */
    public String namespaceURI;


    /**
     * True if element is space preserving.
     */
    public boolean preserveSpace;


    /**
     * True if element is empty. Turns false immediately
     * after serializing the first contents of the element.
     */
    public boolean empty;


    /**
     * True if the last serialized node was an element node.
     */
    public boolean afterElement;


    /**
     * True if the last serialized node was a comment node.
     */
    public boolean afterComment;


    /**
     * True if textual content of current element should be
     * serialized as CDATA section.
     */
    public boolean doCData;


    /**
     * True if textual content of current element should be
     * serialized as raw characters (unescaped).
     */
    public boolean unescaped;


    /**
     * True while inside CData and printing text as CData.
     */
    public boolean inCData;


    /**
     * Association between namespace URIs (keys) and prefixes (values).
     */
    public Hashtable prefixes;


}
