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Return a reference to the underlying output stream.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balxml_formatter.h>`

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std::ostream&
rawOutputStream();
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== Description

This method is provided in order to enable user to temporarily jump out of the formatter and write user's own free‐lance content directly to the stream.

== Return Value

a reference to the modifiable underlying output stream


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