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package org.opensaml.xml.io;

import org.opensaml.xml.XMLObject;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

/**
 * Base class for {@link Marshaller} classes.
 * 
 * This base class provides no-op implementations of the methods {@link #marshallAttributes(XMLObject, Element)} and
 * {@link #marshallElementContent(XMLObject, Element)}. Developers extending this class may need to override one or
 * both of these.
 */
public abstract class BaseXMLObjectMarshaller extends AbstractXMLObjectMarshaller {

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    protected void marshallAttributes(XMLObject xmlObject, Element domElement) throws MarshallingException {

    }

    /** {@inheritDoc} */
    protected void marshallElementContent(XMLObject xmlObject, Element domElement) throws MarshallingException {

    }
}