Package org.apache.xerces.dom

Class NodeImpl

java.lang.Object
org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Cloneable, EventTarget, Node, NodeList
Direct Known Subclasses:
AttrImpl, ChildNode, NotationImpl
public abstract class NodeImpl extends Object implements Node, NodeList, EventTarget, Cloneable, Serializable
NodeImpl provides the basic structure of a DOM tree. It is never used directly, but instead is subclassed to add type and data information, and additional methods, appropriate to each node of the tree. Only its subclasses should be instantiated -- and those, with the exception of Document itself, only through a specific Document's factory methods.

The Node interface provides shared behaviors such as siblings and children, both for consistancy and so that the most common tree operations may be performed without constantly having to downcast to specific node types. When there is no obvious mapping for one of these queries, it will respond with null. Note that the default behavior is that children are forbidden. To permit them, the subclass ParentNode overrides several methods.

NodeImpl also implements NodeList, so it can return itself in response to the getChildNodes() query. This eliminiates the need for a separate ChildNodeList object. Note that this is an IMPLEMENTATION DETAIL; applications should _never_ assume that this identity exists.

All nodes in a single document must originate in that document. (Note that this is much tighter than "must be same implementation") Nodes are all aware of their ownerDocument, and attempts to mismatch will throw WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR.

However, to save memory not all nodes always have a direct reference to their ownerDocument. When a node is owned by another node it relies on its owner to store its ownerDocument. Parent nodes always store it though, so there is never more than one level of indirection. And when a node doesn't have an owner, ownerNode refers to its ownerDocument.

This class doesn't directly support mutation events, however, it still implements the EventTarget interface and forward all related calls to the document so that the document class do so.

INTERNAL:

Usage of this class is not supported. It may be altered or removed at any time.
Since:
PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.
Version:
$Id: NodeImpl.java 1502575 2013-07-12 14:37:06Z mrglavas $
Author:
Arnaud Le Hors, IBM, Joe Kesselman, IBM
See Also:

  • Field Details

    • TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING

      public static final short TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING
      The node precedes the reference node.
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    • TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING

      public static final short TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING
      The node follows the reference node.
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    • TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR

      public static final short TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR
      The node is an ancestor of the reference node.
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    • TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT

      public static final short TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT
      The node is a descendant of the reference node.
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    • TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT

      public static final short TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT
      The two nodes have an equivalent position. This is the case of two attributes that have the same ownerElement, and two nodes that are the same.
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    • TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE

      public static final short TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE
      The two nodes are the same. Two nodes that are the same have an equivalent position, though the reverse may not be true.
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    • TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED

      public static final short TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED
      The two nodes are disconnected, they do not have any common ancestor. This is the case of two nodes that are not in the same document.
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    • DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED

      public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED
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    • DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING

      public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING
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    • DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING

      public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING
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    • DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS

      public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS
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    • DOCUMENT_POSITION_IS_CONTAINED

      public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_IS_CONTAINED
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    • DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC

      public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC
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    • ELEMENT_DEFINITION_NODE

      public static final short ELEMENT_DEFINITION_NODE
      Element definition node type.
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    • ownerNode

      protected NodeImpl ownerNode

    • flags

      protected short flags

    • READONLY

      protected static final short READONLY
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    • SYNCDATA

      protected static final short SYNCDATA
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    • SYNCCHILDREN

      protected static final short SYNCCHILDREN
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    • OWNED

      protected static final short OWNED
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    • FIRSTCHILD

      protected static final short FIRSTCHILD
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    • SPECIFIED

      protected static final short SPECIFIED
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    • IGNORABLEWS

      protected static final short IGNORABLEWS
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    • HASSTRING

      protected static final short HASSTRING
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    • NORMALIZED

      protected static final short NORMALIZED
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    • ID

      protected static final short ID
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  • Constructor Details

    • NodeImpl

      protected NodeImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDocument)
      No public constructor; only subclasses of Node should be instantiated, and those normally via a Document's factory methods

      Every Node knows what Document it belongs to.

    • NodeImpl

      public NodeImpl()
      Constructor for serialization.

  • Method Details

    • getNodeType

      public abstract short getNodeType()
      A short integer indicating what type of node this is. The named constants for this value are defined in the org.w3c.dom.Node interface.
      Specified by:
      getNodeType in interface Node

    • getNodeName

      public abstract String getNodeName()
      the name of this node.
      Specified by:
      getNodeName in interface Node

    • getNodeValue

      public String getNodeValue() throws DOMException
      Returns the node value.
      Specified by:
      getNodeValue in interface Node
      Throws:
      DOMException

    • setNodeValue

      public void setNodeValue(String x) throws DOMException
      Sets the node value.
      Specified by:
      setNodeValue in interface Node
      Throws:
      DOMException

    • appendChild

      public Node appendChild(Node newChild) throws DOMException
      Adds a child node to the end of the list of children for this node. Convenience shorthand for insertBefore(newChild,null).
      Specified by:
      appendChild in interface Node
      Returns:
      newChild, in its new state (relocated, or emptied in the case of DocumentNode.)
      Throws:
      DOMException
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    • cloneNode

      public Node cloneNode(boolean deep)
      Returns a duplicate of a given node. You can consider this a generic "copy constructor" for nodes. The newly returned object should be completely independent of the source object's subtree, so changes in one after the clone has been made will not affect the other.

      Note: since we never have any children deep is meaningless here, ParentNode overrides this behavior.

      Specified by:
      cloneNode in interface Node
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    • getOwnerDocument

      public Document getOwnerDocument()
      Find the Document that this Node belongs to (the document in whose context the Node was created). The Node may or may not currently be part of that Document's actual contents.
      Specified by:
      getOwnerDocument in interface Node

    • setOwnerDocument

      protected void setOwnerDocument(CoreDocumentImpl doc)
      NON-DOM set the ownerDocument of this node

    • getNodeNumber

      protected int getNodeNumber()
      Returns the node number

    • getParentNode

      public Node getParentNode()
      Obtain the DOM-tree parent of this node, or null if it is not currently active in the DOM tree (perhaps because it has just been created or removed). Note that Document, DocumentFragment, and Attribute will never have parents.
      Specified by:
      getParentNode in interface Node

    • getNextSibling

      public Node getNextSibling()
      The next child of this node's parent, or null if none
      Specified by:
      getNextSibling in interface Node

    • getPreviousSibling

      public Node getPreviousSibling()
      The previous child of this node's parent, or null if none
      Specified by:
      getPreviousSibling in interface Node

    • getAttributes

      public NamedNodeMap getAttributes()
      Return the collection of attributes associated with this node, or null if none. At this writing, Element is the only type of node which will ever have attributes.
      Specified by:
      getAttributes in interface Node
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    • hasAttributes

      public boolean hasAttributes()
      Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes.
      Specified by:
      hasAttributes in interface Node
      Returns:
      true if this node has any attributes, false otherwise.
      Since:
      DOM Level 2
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    • hasChildNodes

      public boolean hasChildNodes()
      Test whether this node has any children. Convenience shorthand for (Node.getFirstChild()!=null)

      By default we do not have any children, ParentNode overrides this.

      Specified by:
      hasChildNodes in interface Node
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    • getChildNodes

      public NodeList getChildNodes()
      Obtain a NodeList enumerating all children of this node. If there are none, an (initially) empty NodeList is returned.

      NodeLists are "live"; as children are added/removed the NodeList will immediately reflect those changes. Also, the NodeList refers to the actual nodes, so changes to those nodes made via the DOM tree will be reflected in the NodeList and vice versa.

      In this implementation, Nodes implement the NodeList interface and provide their own getChildNodes() support. Other DOMs may solve this differently.

      Specified by:
      getChildNodes in interface Node

    • getFirstChild

      public Node getFirstChild()
      The first child of this Node, or null if none.

      By default we do not have any children, ParentNode overrides this.

      Specified by:
      getFirstChild in interface Node
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    • getLastChild

      public Node getLastChild()
      The first child of this Node, or null if none.

      By default we do not have any children, ParentNode overrides this.

      Specified by:
      getLastChild in interface Node
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    • insertBefore

      public Node insertBefore(Node newChild, Node refChild) throws DOMException
      Move one or more node(s) to our list of children. Note that this implicitly removes them from their previous parent.

      By default we do not accept any children, ParentNode overrides this.

      Specified by:
      insertBefore in interface Node
      Parameters:
      newChild - The Node to be moved to our subtree. As a convenience feature, inserting a DocumentNode will instead insert all its children.
      refChild - Current child which newChild should be placed immediately before. If refChild is null, the insertion occurs after all existing Nodes, like appendChild().
      Returns:
      newChild, in its new state (relocated, or emptied in the case of DocumentNode.)
      Throws:
      DOMException
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    • removeChild

      public Node removeChild(Node oldChild) throws DOMException
      Remove a child from this Node. The removed child's subtree remains intact so it may be re-inserted elsewhere.

      By default we do not have any children, ParentNode overrides this.

      Specified by:
      removeChild in interface Node
      Returns:
      oldChild, in its new state (removed).
      Throws:
      DOMException
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    • replaceChild

      public Node replaceChild(Node newChild, Node oldChild) throws DOMException
      Make newChild occupy the location that oldChild used to have. Note that newChild will first be removed from its previous parent, if any. Equivalent to inserting newChild before oldChild, then removing oldChild.

      By default we do not have any children, ParentNode overrides this.

      Specified by:
      replaceChild in interface Node
      Returns:
      oldChild, in its new state (removed).
      Throws:
      DOMException
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    • getLength

      public int getLength()
      NodeList method: Count the immediate children of this node

      By default we do not have any children, ParentNode overrides this.

      Specified by:
      getLength in interface NodeList
      Returns:
      int
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    • item

      public Node item(int index)
      NodeList method: Return the Nth immediate child of this node, or null if the index is out of bounds.

      By default we do not have any children, ParentNode overrides this.

      Specified by:
      item in interface NodeList
      Parameters:
      index - int
      Returns:
      org.w3c.dom.Node
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    • normalize

      public void normalize()
      Puts all Text nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this Node, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g., tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates Text nodes, i.e., there are no adjacent Text nodes. This can be used to ensure that the DOM view of a document is the same as if it were saved and re-loaded, and is useful when operations (such as XPointer lookups) that depend on a particular document tree structure are to be used.In cases where the document contains CDATASections, the normalize operation alone may not be sufficient, since XPointers do not differentiate between Text nodes and CDATASection nodes.

      Note that this implementation simply calls normalize() on this Node's children. It is up to implementors or Node to override normalize() to take action.

      Specified by:
      normalize in interface Node

    • isSupported

      public boolean isSupported(String feature, String version)
      Introduced in DOM Level 2.

      Tests whether the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and that feature is supported by this node.

      Specified by:
      isSupported in interface Node
      Parameters:
      feature - The package name of the feature to test. This is the same name as what can be passed to the method hasFeature on DOMImplementation.
      version - This is the version number of the package name to test. In Level 2, version 1, this is the string "2.0". If the version is not specified, supporting any version of the feature will cause the method to return true.
      Returns:
      boolean Returns true if this node defines a subtree within which the specified feature is supported, false otherwise.
      Since:
      WD-DOM-Level-2-19990923

    • getNamespaceURI

      public String getNamespaceURI()
      Introduced in DOM Level 2.

      The namespace URI of this node, or null if it is unspecified. When this node is of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and ATTRIBUTE_NODE, this is always null and setting it has no effect.

      This is not a computed value that is the result of a namespace lookup based on an examination of the namespace declarations in scope. It is merely the namespace URI given at creation time.

      For nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method, such as createElement from the Document interface, this is null.

      Specified by:
      getNamespaceURI in interface Node
      Since:
      WD-DOM-Level-2-19990923
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    • getPrefix

      public String getPrefix()
      Introduced in DOM Level 2.

      The namespace prefix of this node, or null if it is unspecified. When this node is of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and ATTRIBUTE_NODE this is always null and setting it has no effect.

      For nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method, such as createElement from the Document interface, this is null.

      Specified by:
      getPrefix in interface Node
      Since:
      WD-DOM-Level-2-19990923
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    • setPrefix

      public void setPrefix(String prefix) throws DOMException
      Introduced in DOM Level 2.

      The namespace prefix of this node, or null if it is unspecified. When this node is of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and ATTRIBUTE_NODE this is always null and setting it has no effect.

      For nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method, such as createElement from the Document interface, this is null.

      Note that setting this attribute changes the nodeName attribute, which holds the qualified name, as well as the tagName and name attributes of the Element and Attr interfaces, when applicable.

      Specified by:
      setPrefix in interface Node
      Since:
      WD-DOM-Level-2-19990923
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    • getLocalName

      public String getLocalName()
      Introduced in DOM Level 2.

      Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node. For nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method, such as createElement from the Document interface, and for nodes of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and ATTRIBUTE_NODE this is the same as the nodeName attribute.

      Specified by:
      getLocalName in interface Node
      Since:
      WD-DOM-Level-2-19990923
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    • addEventListener

      public void addEventListener(String type, EventListener listener, boolean useCapture)
      Specified by:
      addEventListener in interface EventTarget

    • removeEventListener

      public void removeEventListener(String type, EventListener listener, boolean useCapture)
      Specified by:
      removeEventListener in interface EventTarget

    • dispatchEvent

      public boolean dispatchEvent(Event event)
      Specified by:
      dispatchEvent in interface EventTarget

    • getBaseURI

      public String getBaseURI()
      The absolute base URI of this node or null if undefined. This value is computed according to . However, when the Document supports the feature "HTML" , the base URI is computed using first the value of the href attribute of the HTML BASE element if any, and the value of the documentURI attribute from the Document interface otherwise.
      When the node is an Element, a Document or a a ProcessingInstruction, this attribute represents the properties [base URI] defined in . When the node is a Notation, an Entity, or an EntityReference, this attribute represents the properties [declaration base URI] in the . How will this be affected by resolution of relative namespace URIs issue?It's not.Should this only be on Document, Element, ProcessingInstruction, Entity, and Notation nodes, according to the infoset? If not, what is it equal to on other nodes? Null? An empty string? I think it should be the parent's.No.Should this be read-only and computed or and actual read-write attribute?Read-only and computed (F2F 19 Jun 2000 and teleconference 30 May 2001).If the base HTML element is not yet attached to a document, does the insert change the Document.baseURI? Yes. (F2F 26 Sep 2001)
      Specified by:
      getBaseURI in interface Node
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • compareTreePosition

      public short compareTreePosition(Node other)
      Deprecated.
      Compares a node with this node with regard to their position in the tree and according to the document order. This order can be extended by module that define additional types of nodes.
      Parameters:
      other - The node to compare against this node.
      Returns:
      Returns how the given node is positioned relatively to this node.
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • compareDocumentPosition

      public short compareDocumentPosition(Node other) throws DOMException
      Compares a node with this node with regard to their position in the document.
      Specified by:
      compareDocumentPosition in interface Node
      Parameters:
      other - The node to compare against this node.
      Returns:
      Returns how the given node is positioned relatively to this node.
      Throws:
      DOMException
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • getTextContent

      public String getTextContent() throws DOMException
      This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants. When it is defined to be null, setting it has no effect. When set, any possible children this node may have are removed and replaced by a single Text node containing the string this attribute is set to. On getting, no serialization is performed, the returned string does not contain any markup. No whitespace normalization is performed, the returned string does not contain the element content whitespaces . Similarly, on setting, no parsing is performed either, the input string is taken as pure textual content.
      The string returned is made of the text content of this node depending on its type, as defined below: /** This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants. When it is defined to be null, setting it has no effect. When set, any possible children this node may have are removed and replaced by a single Text node containing the string this attribute is set to. On getting, no serialization is performed, the returned string does not contain any markup. No whitespace normalization is performed, the returned string does not contain the element content whitespaces . Similarly, on setting, no parsing is performed either, the input string is taken as pure textual content.
      The string returned is made of the text content of this node depending on its type, as defined below:
      Node type Content
      Node type Content
      ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE concatenation of the textContent attribute value of every child node, excluding COMMENT_NODE and PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE nodes
      ATTRIBUTE_NODE, TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE nodeValue
      DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE null
      Specified by:
      getTextContent in interface Node
      Throws:
      DOMException - NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
      DOMException - DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than fit in a DOMString variable on the implementation platform.
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • setTextContent

      public void setTextContent(String textContent) throws DOMException
      This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants. When it is defined to be null, setting it has no effect. When set, any possible children this node may have are removed and replaced by a single Text node containing the string this attribute is set to. On getting, no serialization is performed, the returned string does not contain any markup. No whitespace normalization is performed, the returned string does not contain the element content whitespaces . Similarly, on setting, no parsing is performed either, the input string is taken as pure textual content.
      The string returned is made of the text content of this node depending on its type, as defined below:
      Node type Content
      ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE concatenation of the textContent attribute value of every child node, excluding COMMENT_NODE and PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE nodes
      ATTRIBUTE_NODE, TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE nodeValue
      DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE null
      Specified by:
      setTextContent in interface Node
      Throws:
      DOMException - NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
      DOMException - DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than fit in a DOMString variable on the implementation platform.
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • isSameNode

      public boolean isSameNode(Node other)
      Returns whether this node is the same node as the given one.
      This method provides a way to determine whether two Node references returned by the implementation reference the same object. When two Node references are references to the same object, even if through a proxy, the references may be used completely interchangably, such that all attributes have the same values and calling the same DOM method on either reference always has exactly the same effect.
      Specified by:
      isSameNode in interface Node
      Parameters:
      other - The node to test against.
      Returns:
      Returns true if the nodes are the same, false otherwise.
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • isDefaultNamespace

      public boolean isDefaultNamespace(String namespaceURI)
      DOM Level 3: Experimental This method checks if the specified namespaceURI is the default namespace or not.
      Specified by:
      isDefaultNamespace in interface Node
      Parameters:
      namespaceURI - The namespace URI to look for.
      Returns:
      true if the specified namespaceURI is the default namespace, false otherwise.
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • lookupPrefix

      public String lookupPrefix(String namespaceURI)
      DOM Level 3 - Experimental: Look up the prefix associated to the given namespace URI, starting from this node.
      Specified by:
      lookupPrefix in interface Node
      Parameters:
      namespaceURI -
      Returns:
      the prefix for the namespace

    • lookupNamespaceURI

      public String lookupNamespaceURI(String specifiedPrefix)
      DOM Level 3 - Experimental: Look up the namespace URI associated to the given prefix, starting from this node. Use lookupNamespaceURI(null) to lookup the default namespace
      Specified by:
      lookupNamespaceURI in interface Node
      Parameters:
      specifiedPrefix -
      Returns:
      the URI for the namespace
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • isEqualNode

      public boolean isEqualNode(Node arg)
      Tests whether two nodes are equal.
      This method tests for equality of nodes, not sameness (i.e., whether the two nodes are references to the same object) which can be tested with Node.isSameNode. All nodes that are the same will also be equal, though the reverse may not be true.
      Two nodes are equal if and only if the following conditions are satisfied: The two nodes are of the same type.The following string attributes are equal: nodeName, localName, namespaceURI, prefix, nodeValue , baseURI. This is: they are both null, or they have the same length and are character for character identical. The attributes NamedNodeMaps are equal. This is: they are both null, or they have the same length and for each node that exists in one map there is a node that exists in the other map and is equal, although not necessarily at the same index.The childNodes NodeLists are equal. This is: they are both null, or they have the same length and contain equal nodes at the same index. This is true for Attr nodes as for any other type of node. Note that normalization can affect equality; to avoid this, nodes should be normalized before being compared.
      For two DocumentType nodes to be equal, the following conditions must also be satisfied: The following string attributes are equal: publicId, systemId, internalSubset.The entities NamedNodeMaps are equal.The notations NamedNodeMaps are equal.
      On the other hand, the following do not affect equality: the ownerDocument attribute, the specified attribute for Attr nodes, the isWhitespaceInElementContent attribute for Text nodes, as well as any user data or event listeners registered on the nodes.
      Specified by:
      isEqualNode in interface Node
      Parameters:
      arg - The node to compare equality with.
      Returns:
      If the nodes, and possibly subtrees are equal, true otherwise false.
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • getFeature

      public Object getFeature(String feature, String version)
      Specified by:
      getFeature in interface Node
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • setUserData

      public Object setUserData(String key, Object data, UserDataHandler handler)
      Associate an object to a key on this node. The object can later be retrieved from this node by calling getUserData with the same key.
      Specified by:
      setUserData in interface Node
      Parameters:
      key - The key to associate the object to.
      data - The object to associate to the given key, or null to remove any existing association to that key.
      handler - The handler to associate to that key, or null.
      Returns:
      Returns the DOMObject previously associated to the given key on this node, or null if there was none.
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • getUserData

      public Object getUserData(String key)
      Retrieves the object associated to a key on a this node. The object must first have been set to this node by calling setUserData with the same key.
      Specified by:
      getUserData in interface Node
      Parameters:
      key - The key the object is associated to.
      Returns:
      Returns the DOMObject associated to the given key on this node, or null if there was none.
      Since:
      DOM Level 3

    • getUserDataRecord

      protected Hashtable getUserDataRecord()

    • setReadOnly

      public void setReadOnly(boolean readOnly, boolean deep)
      NON-DOM: PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818 mentions readonly nodes in conjunction with Entities, but provides no API to support this.

      Most DOM users should not touch this method. Its anticpated use is during construction of EntityRefernces, where it will be used to lock the contents replicated from Entity so they can't be casually altered. It _could_ be published as a DOM extension, if desired.

      Note: since we never have any children deep is meaningless here, ParentNode overrides this behavior.

      Parameters:
      readOnly - True or false as desired.
      deep - If true, children are also toggled. Note that this will not change the state of an EntityReference or its children, which are always read-only.
      See Also:

    • getReadOnly

      public boolean getReadOnly()
      NON-DOM: Returns true if this node is read-only. This is a shallow check.

    • setUserData

      public void setUserData(Object data)
      NON-DOM: As an alternative to subclassing the DOM, this implementation has been extended with the ability to attach an object to each node. (If you need multiple objects, you can attach a collection such as a vector or hashtable, then attach your application information to that.)

      Important Note: You are responsible for removing references to your data on nodes that are no longer used. Failure to do so will prevent the nodes, your data is attached to, to be garbage collected until the whole document is.

      Parameters:
      data - the object to store or null to remove any existing reference

    • getUserData

      public Object getUserData()
      NON-DOM: Returns the user data associated to this node.

    • changed

      protected void changed()
      Denotes that this node has changed.

    • changes

      protected int changes()
      Returns the number of changes to this node.

    • synchronizeData

      protected void synchronizeData()
      Override this method in subclass to hook in efficient internal data structure.

    • getContainer

      protected Node getContainer()
      For non-child nodes, the node which "points" to this node. For example, the owning element for an attribute

    • needsSyncChildren

      public final void needsSyncChildren(boolean value)

    • toString

      public String toString()
      NON-DOM method for debugging convenience.
      Overrides:
      toString in class Object