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Return a reference to the underlining output stream&period; This method is provided in order to enable user to temporarily jump out of the formatter and write user&apos;s own free&hyphen;lance content directly to the stream&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;balxml&lowbar;formatter&period;h&gt;`

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std::ostream&
rawOutputStream();
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