Class ParentNode

java.lang.Object

org.castor.xmlctf.xmldiff.xml.nodes.XMLNode

org.castor.xmlctf.xmldiff.xml.nodes.ParentNode

Direct Known Subclasses:

Element, Root

public abstract class ParentNode
extends XMLNode

The base object for both Element and RootNode. The children of a ParentNode can be any type of XMLNode.

Since:

Castor 1.1

Version:

$Revision: 0000 $ $Date: 2007-01-11 00:00:00 -0600 (Thu, 11 Jan 2007) $

Author:

Edward Kuns

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class XMLNode

ATTRIBUTE, ELEMENT, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, ROOT, TEXT

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final int	ATTRIBUTE	Node is an attribute.
static final int	ELEMENT	Node is an element.
static final int	PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION	Node is a processing instruction.
static final int	ROOT	Node is a root node.
static final int	TEXT	Node is a text node.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	addChild(XMLNode node)	Adds the given child node to this ParentNode.
Iterator	getChildIterator()	Returns an Iterator over the list of child nodes.
String	getStringValue()	Returns the string value of this parent node.
boolean	hasChildNodes()	Returns true if this node has any child nodes.

Methods inherited from class XMLNode

getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNamespaceURI, getNodeLocation, getNodeType, getParentNode, getRootNode, getXPath, setNamespace

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getLocalName()	Returns the local name of the node.
String	getNamespaceURI()	Returns the namespace URI the node.
String	getNamespaceURI(String prefix)	Returns the namespace URI associated with this namespace prefix, as defined in the context of this node.
String	getNodeLocation()	Finds and returns the location of this node in its root's tree.
final int	getNodeType()	Returns the type of this node.
ParentNode	getParentNode()	Returns the parent node, or null if the node has no parent.
XMLNode	getRootNode()	Returns the root node.
protected String	getXPath()	Returns the XPath from the root node to this node.
void	setNamespace(String namespace)	Sets the namespace URI for this XMLNode.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Details

getChildIterator

public Iterator getChildIterator()

Returns an Iterator over the list of child nodes.

Returns:

an Iterator over the list of child nodes.

hasChildNodes

public boolean hasChildNodes()

Returns true if this node has any child nodes.

Returns:

True if this node has any child nodes.

getStringValue

public String getStringValue()

Returns the string value of this parent node. The string value is the concatenation of the string value of all child nodes.

Specified by:

getStringValue in class XMLNode

Returns:

The string value of the node

addChild

public void addChild(XMLNode node)

Adds the given child node to this ParentNode.

Parameters:

node - the child node to add