Package nu.staldal.xmltree

XMLTree is a lightweight tree representation of an XML document.

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Class Summary

Element	An XML Element.
Node	Base class for a node in an XMLTree.
NodeWithChildren	Base class for a node with children.
ProcessingInstruction	An XML processing instruction.
Text	Character content in an XML document.
TreeBuilder	Build an XMLTree from a SAX2 event stream, or by parsing an XML document.

Package nu.staldal.xmltree Description

XMLTree is a lightweight tree representation of an XML document.

XMLTree is desiged to be compatible with SAX2. An XMLTree contains (almost) the same information as a SAX2 ContentHandler. It's easy to construct an XMLTree from SAX2 events using TreeBuilder and to serialize an XMLTree into SAX2 events using the Node.toSAX(org.xml.sax.ContentHandler) method.

Unlike DOM, XMLTree has no concept of a document, a document is equvivalent to its root element. It's not possible to distinguish between a complete document and a document fragment, both are simply representated by an Element.

Qualified names are representated as in QName.toString(): "{" + Namespace URI + "}" + local part. If the Namespace URI is empty, only the local part is used (no "{" "}").