001/**
002 * Copyright 2005-2016 The Kuali Foundation
003 *
004 * Licensed under the Educational Community License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
005 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
006 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
007 *
008 * http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl2.php
009 *
010 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
011 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
012 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
013 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
014 * limitations under the License.
015 */
016package org.kuali.rice.krad.service;
017
018import org.kuali.rice.krad.document.Document;
019
020/**
021 * Implementations of this interface are able to serialize documents into XML that's used by the workflow engine to perform routing, searches,
022 * etc.
023 *
024 */
025public interface DocumentSerializerService extends SerializerService  {
026    /**
027     * Serializes a document into XML for the workflow engine
028     * 
029     * @param document the document
030     * @return a XML representation of the document
031     */
032    public String serializeDocumentToXmlForRouting(Document document);
033    
034}