nu.staldal.xmltree
Class Text

java.lang.Object
  nu.staldal.xmltree.Node
      nu.staldal.xmltree.Text

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, org.xml.sax.Locator

public class Text
extends Node

Character content in an XML document. This class is immutable.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class nu.staldal.xmltree.Node

parent

Constructor Summary

Text(char[] data, int start, int length, boolean forceCopy)
Constructs a text node from a char[] buffer.

Text(java.lang.String value)
Constructs a text node from a String.

Method Summary

char[]	asCharArray() Get the charater content as a char[].
java.lang.String	getValue() Get the charater content as a string
boolean	isWhitespaceNode() Check if this node consist of whitespace only.
void	toSAX(org.xml.sax.ContentHandler sax) Serialize this node, and recursively the (sub)tree beneath, into SAX2 events.

Methods inherited from class nu.staldal.xmltree.Node

getBaseURI, getColumnNumber, getInheritedAttribute, getLineNumber, getParent, getPreserveSpace, getPublicId, getSystemId, lookupNamespacePrefix, lookupNamespaceURI, setColumn, setLine, setPublicId, setSystemId

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Text

public Text(char[] data,
            int start,
            int length,
            boolean forceCopy)

Constructs a text node from a char[] buffer.

Parameters:

data - a char[] buffer

start - the offset to read from in the buffer

length - the number of characters to read from the buffer

forceCopy - force copying of the data, if false a reference to the buffer may be kept.

Text

public Text(java.lang.String value)

Constructs a text node from a String.

Parameters:

value - the string

Method Detail

getValue

public java.lang.String getValue()

Get the charater content as a string

Returns:

the character content

asCharArray

public char[] asCharArray()

Get the charater content as a char[].

Returns:

the char[]

toSAX

public void toSAX(org.xml.sax.ContentHandler sax)
           throws org.xml.sax.SAXException

Description copied from class: Node

Serialize this node, and recursively the (sub)tree beneath, into SAX2 events.

Specified by:

toSAX in class Node

Parameters:

sax - the SAX2 ContentHander to fire events on.

Throws:

org.xml.sax.SAXException - if any of the ContentHandler methods throw it

isWhitespaceNode

public boolean isWhitespaceNode()

Description copied from class: Node

Check if this node consist of whitespace only.

Overrides:

isWhitespaceNode in class Node

Returns:

true if and only if this is a Text node which contains no other characters than whitespace.