## Babble/Output.pm
## Copyright (C) 2004 Gergely Nagy <algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org>
##
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package Babble::Output;

use strict;
use Carp;

use Exporter ();
use vars qw(@ISA);
@ISA = qw(Exporter);

=pod

=head1 NAME

Babble::Output - Base output class for Babble

=head1 DESCRIPTION

Babble::Output is a base class, a class which should never ever
be used directly by applications (as it does nothing useful).

This class is merely provided to be a base to inherit from. All
descendants must implement at least the methods this class implements.

=head1 METHODS

=over 4

=item I<output>(B<$babble>, B<$params>)

This method takes the Babble object refernece in its first argument,
and all the supplied parameters (as a hashref), and does whatever is
necessary to return a scalar, containing the output.

=cut

sub output {
	croak "output() unimplemented in this class!";
}

=pod

=back

=head1 AUTHOR

Gergely Nagy, algernon@bonehunter.rulez.org

Bugs should be reported at L<http://bugs.bonehunter.rulez.org/babble>.

=head1 SEE ALSO

Babble::Output::RSS, Babble::Output::TTk

=cut

1;

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