interface IIspecCycle : Idispatch
{
 [id(1), helpstring("Initialize the GenericClass")]     
HRESULT Initialize([in] IUnknown* punkSegment, [in] BSTR bstrClassName );
 [id(2), helpstring("Creates a copy of this GenericClass")]     
HRESULT CreateCopy([out,retval] IIspecCycle **pOutput);
[id(3), helpstring("Set an attribute on the class")]     
HRESULT SetValue([in] BSTR bstrName, [in] BSTR bstrValue);
[id(4), helpstring("Return the value of an attribute in the class")]     
HRESULT GetValue([in] BSTR bstrName, [out,retval] BSTR* pbstrValue);
[id(5), helpstring("Processes the Ispec cycle")]     
HRESULT Process( LONG lSessId );
[id(6), helpstring("Converts a NOF buffer to this class")]     
HRESULT FromNof([in] SAFEARRAY(BYTE) saNofData, [in] LONG lcidNofData);
[id(7), helpstring("Converts this class to a NOF buffer")]     
HRESULT ToNof([in] LONG lcidNofData, [out,retval] SAFEARRAY(BYTE) *psaNofData);
[id(8), helpstring("Converts an XML document to this class")]    
 HRESULT FromXml([in] IUnknown *punkSegment, [in] BSTR bstrXml);
[id(9), helpstring("Converts an XML document to this class")]     
HRESULT FromXmlDom([in] MSXML2.IXMLDOMNode *pClassNode);
 [id(10), helpstring("Converts this class to an XML document")]     
HRESULT ToXml([out,retval] BSTR *pbstrXml);
[id(11), helpstring("Converts this class to an XML document fragment")]     
HRESULT ToXmlDom([in] BSTR bstrNamespace, [in,out] MSXML2.IXMLDOMDocumentFragment *pDocFragment, 
[in,defaultvalue(0)] bool bIncTypes);
[id(12), helpstring("Initialize the GenericClass with a parser type")]     
HRESULT Initialize2([in] IUnknown* punkSegment, [in] BSTR bstrClassName, [in] LONG lParserType, 
[in] BSTR bstrIspecFieldDescr );
[id(13), helpstring("Converts a GLI buffer to this class")]     
HRESULT FromGli([in] SAFEARRAY(BYTE) saGLIData, [in] LONG lcidGLIData);
[id(14), helpstring("Converts this class to a GLI buffer")]     
HRESULT ToGli([in] LONG lcidGLIData, [out,retval] SAFEARRAY(BYTE) *psaGLIData);
[id(15), helpstring("Sets a value in an array or copy.from region")]     
HRESULT SetArrayValue( [in] BSTR bstrName, [in] LONG lRowNumber, [in] BSTR bstrValue );
[id(16), helpstring("Returns a value in an array or copy.from region")]     
HRESULT GetArrayValue( [in] BSTR bstrName, [in] LONG lRowNumber, [out,retval] BSTR *pbstrValue );
[id(17), propget, helpstring("Returns the maximum number of copies in the copy.from region")]     
HRESULT MaxCopies( [out,retval] LONG *plNumCopies );
 [id(18), propget, helpstring("Returns the number of messages we've got")]     
HRESULT NumMessages( [out,retval] LONG *plNumMessages );
[id(19), propget, helpstring("Returns the given message. The first message is the status line")]     
HRESULT Message( [in] LONG lMessage, [out,retval] BSTR *pbstrValue );
[id(20), helpstring("Appends a message to the list of messages we have")]     
HRESULT AppendMessage( [in] BSTR bstrMessage );
[id(21), helpstring("Clears the message queue in the object")]     
HRESULT ClearMessages();
 [id(22), helpstring("Adds a dynamic list our internal list")]     
HRESULT AddDynamicList( [in] IStream *pList );
[id(23), propget, helpstring("Returns the number of lists we're holding a reference to")]     
HRESULT NumDynamicLists( [out,retval] LONG *plNumLists );
[id(24), helpstring("Returns (and removes the reference to) the given list")]     
HRESULT GetDynamicList( [in] LONG lListNumber, [out,retval] IStream **ppList );
[id(25), helpstring("Clears the list of dynamic lists that we have a reference to")]     
HRESULT ClearDynamicLists();
 [id(26), propget, helpstring("Returns an integer describing whatever errors there were, 
or 0 if everything succeeded.")]     
HRESULT Error( [out,retval] LONG *plError );
 [id(27), helpstring("Returns the data needed to switch to another application")     
HRESULT GetSwitchToData( [out] IUnknown **ppunkNewSegment, [out] BSTR *pbstrNewSystemName, [out,retval] 
BOOL *pbSwitched );
};

The following IIspecCycle methods are:

There are a number of other methods present on the IIspecCycle interface, however these are for internal use by the product and are therefore not described.