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It encodes the internal in-memory representation of a configuration model to an external representation consumable from the resulting input stream.
Resource identifier in composite data will get encoded to resource identifier stream and data node will be encoded to resource data stream.
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Facilities to convert Input stream to DataNode and vice versa.
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