public class

CoreDocumentImpl

extends ParentNode
implements Document
java.lang.Object
   ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
     ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
       ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
         ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl
Known Direct Subclasses
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

The Document interface represents the entire HTML or XML document. Conceptually, it is the root of the document tree, and provides the primary access to the document's data.

Since elements, text nodes, comments, processing instructions, etc. cannot exist outside the context of a Document, the Document interface also contains the factory methods needed to create these objects. The Node objects created have a ownerDocument attribute which associates them with the Document within whose context they were created.

The CoreDocumentImpl class only implements the DOM Core. Additional modules are supported by the more complete DocumentImpl subclass.

Note: When any node in the document is serialized, the entire document is serialized along with it.

Summary

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Inherited Constants
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
From interface org.w3c.dom.Node
Fields
protected String actualEncoding Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: Document actualEncoding
protected boolean allowGrammarAccess Allow grammar access.
protected int changes Number of alterations made to this document since its creation.
protected ElementImpl docElement Document element.
protected DocumentTypeImpl docType Document type.
protected String encoding Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: Document encoding
protected boolean errorChecking Bypass error checking.
protected String fDocumentURI Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: documentURI
protected Hashtable identifiers Identifiers.
protected boolean standalone Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: Document standalone
protected Hashtable userData Table for user data attached to this document nodes.
protected String version Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: Document version
protected boolean xmlVersionChanged
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Inherited Fields
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
Public Constructors
CoreDocumentImpl()
NON-DOM: Actually creating a Document is outside the DOM's spec, since it has to operate in terms of a particular implementation.
CoreDocumentImpl(boolean grammarAccess)
Constructor.
CoreDocumentImpl(DocumentType doctype)
For DOM2 support.
CoreDocumentImpl(DocumentType doctype, boolean grammarAccess)
For DOM2 support.
Public Methods
void abort()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
Node adoptNode(Node source)
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental Change the node's ownerDocument, and its subtree, to this Document
Object clone()
Clone.
Node cloneNode(boolean deep)
Deep-clone a document, including fixing ownerDoc for the cloned children.
Attr createAttribute(String name)
Factory method; creates an Attribute having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
Attr createAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
Attr createAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, String localpart)
NON-DOM: a factory method used by the Xerces DOM parser to create an element.
CDATASection createCDATASection(String data)
Factory method; creates a CDATASection having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
Comment createComment(String data)
Factory method; creates a Comment having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
DocumentFragment createDocumentFragment()
Factory method; creates a DocumentFragment having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
DocumentType createDocumentType(String qualifiedName, String publicID, String systemID)
NON-DOM Factory method; creates a DocumentType having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
Element createElement(String tagName)
Factory method; creates an Element having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
ElementDefinitionImpl createElementDefinition(String name)
NON-DOM Factory method: creates an element definition.
Element createElementNS(String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
Element createElementNS(String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, String localpart)
NON-DOM: a factory method used by the Xerces DOM parser to create an element.
Entity createEntity(String name)
NON-DOM Factory method; creates an Entity having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
EntityReference createEntityReference(String name)
Factory method; creates an EntityReference having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
Notation createNotation(String name)
NON-DOM Factory method; creates a Notation having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
ProcessingInstruction createProcessingInstruction(String target, String data)
Factory method; creates a ProcessingInstruction having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
Text createTextNode(String data)
Factory method; creates a Text node having this Document as its OwnerDoc.
boolean getAsync()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
String getBaseURI()
Returns the absolute base URI of this node or null if the implementation wasn't able to obtain an absolute URI.
DocumentType getDoctype()
For XML, this provides access to the Document Type Definition.
Element getDocumentElement()
Convenience method, allowing direct access to the child node which is considered the root of the actual document content.
String getDocumentURI()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
DOMConfiguration getDomConfig()
DOM Level 3 CR - Experimental The configuration used when Document.normalizeDocument is invoked.
Element getElementById(String elementId)
Introduced in DOM Level 2 Returns the Element whose ID is given by elementId.
NodeList getElementsByTagName(String tagname)
Return a live collection of all descendent Elements (not just immediate children) having the specified tag name.
NodeList getElementsByTagNameNS(String namespaceURI, String localName)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
String getEncoding()
This method is deprecated. This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.
boolean getErrorChecking()
Returns true if the DOM implementation performs error checking.
Object getFeature(String feature, String version)
Element getIdentifier(String idName)
Returns a previously registered element with the specified identifier name, or null if no element is registered.
Enumeration getIdentifiers()
Returns an enumeration registered of identifier names.
DOMImplementation getImplementation()
Retrieve information describing the abilities of this particular DOM implementation.
String getInputEncoding()
DOM Level 3 CR - Experimental.
String getNodeName()
Returns the node name.
short getNodeType()
Returns the node type.
final Document getOwnerDocument()
Find the Document that this Node belongs to (the document in whose context the Node was created).
boolean getStandalone()
This method is deprecated. This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.
boolean getStrictErrorChecking()
String getTextContent()
This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants.
Object getUserData(Node n, String key)
Retrieves the object associated to a key on a this node.
String getVersion()
This method is deprecated. This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.
String getXmlEncoding()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
boolean getXmlStandalone()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
String getXmlVersion()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
Node importNode(Node source, boolean deep)
Copies a node from another document to this document.
Node insertBefore(Node newChild, Node refChild)
Since a Document may contain at most one top-level Element child, and at most one DocumentType declaraction, we need to subclass our add-children methods to implement this constraint.
final static boolean isValidQName(String prefix, String local, boolean xml11Version)
Checks if the given qualified name is legal with respect to the version of XML to which this document must conform.
final static boolean isXMLName(String s, boolean xml11Version)
Check the string against XML's definition of acceptable names for elements and attributes and so on using the XMLCharacterProperties utility class
boolean load(String uri)
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
boolean loadXML(String source)
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
void normalizeDocument()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental Normalize document.
void putIdentifier(String idName, Element element)
Registers an identifier name with a specified element node.
Node removeChild(Node oldChild)
Since insertBefore caches the docElement (and, currently, docType), removeChild has to know how to undo the cache REVISIT: According to the spec it is not allowed to alter neither the document element nor the document type in any way
void removeIdentifier(String idName)
Removes a previously registered element with the specified identifier name.
Node renameNode(Node n, String namespaceURI, String name)
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
Node replaceChild(Node newChild, Node oldChild)
Since we cache the docElement (and, currently, docType), replaceChild has to update the cache REVISIT: According to the spec it is not allowed to alter neither the document element nor the document type in any way
String saveXML(Node node)
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
void setAsync(boolean async)
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
void setDocumentURI(String documentURI)
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
void setEncoding(String value)
This method is deprecated. This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.
void setErrorChecking(boolean check)
Sets whether the DOM implementation performs error checking upon operations.
void setInputEncoding(String value)
DOM Internal (Was a DOM L3 Core WD public interface method setActualEncoding ) An attribute specifying the actual encoding of this document.
void setStandalone(boolean value)
This method is deprecated. This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.
void setStrictErrorChecking(boolean check)
void setTextContent(String textContent)
This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants.
Object setUserData(Node n, String key, Object data, UserDataHandler handler)
Associate an object to a key on this node.
void setVersion(String value)
This method is deprecated. This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.
void setXmlEncoding(String value)
DOM Internal (Was a DOM L3 Core WD public interface method setXMLEncoding ) An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the encoding of this document.
void setXmlStandalone(boolean value)
DOM Level 3 CR - Experimental.
void setXmlVersion(String value)
DOM Level 3 CR - Experimental.
Protected Methods
void addEventListener(NodeImpl node, String type, EventListener listener, boolean useCapture)
void callUserDataHandlers(Node n, Node c, short operation)
Call user data handlers when a node is deleted (finalized)
void changed()
Denotes that this node has changed.
int changes()
Returns the number of changes to this node.
final void checkDOMNSErr(String prefix, String namespace)
final void checkNamespaceWF(String qname, int colon1, int colon2)
Call user data handlers to let them know the nodes they are related to are being deleted.
final void checkQName(String prefix, String local)
Checks if the given qualified name is legal with respect to the version of XML to which this document must conform.
final void clearIdentifiers()
Remove all identifiers from the ID table
void cloneNode(CoreDocumentImpl newdoc, boolean deep)
internal method to share code with subclass
void copyEventListeners(NodeImpl src, NodeImpl tgt)
boolean dispatchEvent(NodeImpl node, Event event)
int getNodeNumber()
NON-DOM: Get the number associated with this document.
int getNodeNumber(Node node)
NON-DOM: Get a number associated with a node created with respect to this document.
Object getUserData(NodeImpl n)
NON-DOM: kept for backward compatibility Retreive user data related to a given node
Hashtable getUserDataRecord(Node n)
boolean isKidOK(Node parent, Node child)
Uses the kidOK lookup table to check whether the proposed tree structure is legal.
void removeEventListener(NodeImpl node, String type, EventListener listener, boolean useCapture)
void setUserData(NodeImpl n, Object data)
NON-DOM: kept for backward compatibility Store user data related to a given node This is a place where we could use weak references! Indeed, the node here won't be GC'ed as long as some user data is attached to it, since the userData table will have a reference to the node.
void undeferChildren(Node node)
Traverses the DOM Tree and expands deferred nodes and their children.
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Inherited Methods
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
From class java.lang.Object
From interface org.w3c.dom.Document
From interface org.w3c.dom.Node
From interface org.w3c.dom.NodeList
From interface org.w3c.dom.events.EventTarget

Fields

protected String actualEncoding

Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: Document actualEncoding

protected boolean allowGrammarAccess

Allow grammar access.

protected int changes

Number of alterations made to this document since its creation. Serves as a "dirty bit" so that live objects such as NodeList can recognize when an alteration has been made and discard its cached state information.

Any method that alters the tree structure MUST cause or be accompanied by a call to changed(), to inform it that any outstanding NodeLists may have to be updated.

(Required because NodeList is simultaneously "live" and integer- indexed -- a bad decision in the DOM's design.)

Note that changes which do not affect the tree's structure -- changing the node's name, for example -- do _not_ have to call changed().

Alternative implementation would be to use a cryptographic Digest value rather than a count. This would have the advantage that "harmless" changes (those producing equal() trees) would not force NodeList to resynchronize. Disadvantage is that it's slightly more prone to "false negatives", though that's the difference between "wildly unlikely" and "absurdly unlikely". IF we start maintaining digests, we should consider taking advantage of them. Note: This used to be done a node basis, so that we knew what subtree changed. But since only DeepNodeList really use this today, the gain appears to be really small compared to the cost of having an int on every (parent) node plus having to walk up the tree all the way to the root to mark the branch as changed everytime a node is changed. So we now have a single counter global to the document. It means that some objects may flush their cache more often than necessary, but this makes nodes smaller and only the document needs to be marked as changed.

protected ElementImpl docElement

Document element.

protected DocumentTypeImpl docType

Document type.

protected String encoding

Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: Document encoding

protected boolean errorChecking

Bypass error checking.

protected String fDocumentURI

Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: documentURI

protected Hashtable identifiers

Identifiers.

protected boolean standalone

Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: Document standalone

protected Hashtable userData

Table for user data attached to this document nodes.

protected String version

Experimental DOM Level 3 feature: Document version

protected boolean xmlVersionChanged

Public Constructors

public CoreDocumentImpl ()

NON-DOM: Actually creating a Document is outside the DOM's spec, since it has to operate in terms of a particular implementation.

public CoreDocumentImpl (boolean grammarAccess)

Constructor.

public CoreDocumentImpl (DocumentType doctype)

For DOM2 support. The createDocument factory method is in DOMImplementation.

public CoreDocumentImpl (DocumentType doctype, boolean grammarAccess)

For DOM2 support.

Public Methods

public void abort ()

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. If the document is currently being loaded as a result of the method load being invoked the loading and parsing is immediately aborted. The possibly partial result of parsing the document is discarded and the document is cleared.

public Node adoptNode (Node source)

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental Change the node's ownerDocument, and its subtree, to this Document

Parameters
source The node to adopt.

public Object clone ()

public Node cloneNode (boolean deep)

Deep-clone a document, including fixing ownerDoc for the cloned children. Note that this requires bypassing the WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR protection. I've chosen to implement it by calling importNode which is DOM Level 2.

Parameters
deep boolean, iff true replicate children
Returns
  • org.w3c.dom.Node

public Attr createAttribute (String name)

Factory method; creates an Attribute having this Document as its OwnerDoc.

Parameters
name The name of the attribute. Note that the attribute's value is _not_ established at the factory; remember to set it!
Throws
if the attribute name is not acceptable.
DOMException

public Attr createAttributeNS (String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

Creates an attribute of the given qualified name and namespace URI. If the given namespaceURI is null or an empty string and the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml", the created element is bound to the predefined namespace "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" [Namespaces].

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the attribute to create. When it is null or an empty string, this method behaves like createAttribute.
qualifiedName The qualified name of the attribute to instantiate.
Returns
  • Attr A new Attr object.
Throws
DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an invalid character.

public Attr createAttributeNS (String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, String localpart)

NON-DOM: a factory method used by the Xerces DOM parser to create an element.

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the attribute to create. When it is null or an empty string, this method behaves like createAttribute.
qualifiedName The qualified name of the attribute to instantiate.
localpart The local name of the attribute to instantiate.
Returns
  • Attr A new Attr object.
Throws
DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an invalid character.

public CDATASection createCDATASection (String data)

Factory method; creates a CDATASection having this Document as its OwnerDoc.

Parameters
data The initial contents of the CDATA
Throws
for HTML documents. (HTML not yet implemented.)
DOMException

public Comment createComment (String data)

Factory method; creates a Comment having this Document as its OwnerDoc.

Parameters
data The initial contents of the Comment.

public DocumentFragment createDocumentFragment ()

Factory method; creates a DocumentFragment having this Document as its OwnerDoc.

public DocumentType createDocumentType (String qualifiedName, String publicID, String systemID)

NON-DOM Factory method; creates a DocumentType having this Document as its OwnerDoc. (REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001 left the process of building DTD information unspecified.)

Throws
for HTML documents, where DTDs are not permitted. (HTML not yet implemented.)
DOMException

public Element createElement (String tagName)

Factory method; creates an Element having this Document as its OwnerDoc.

Parameters
tagName The name of the element type to instantiate. For XML, this is case-sensitive. For HTML, the tagName parameter may be provided in any case, but it must be mapped to the canonical uppercase form by the DOM implementation.
Throws
if the tag name is not acceptable.
DOMException

public ElementDefinitionImpl createElementDefinition (String name)

NON-DOM Factory method: creates an element definition. Element definitions hold default attribute values.

Throws
DOMException

public Element createElementNS (String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

Creates an element of the given qualified name and namespace URI. If the given namespaceURI is null or an empty string and the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml", the created element is bound to the predefined namespace "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" [Namespaces].

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the element to create.
qualifiedName The qualified name of the element type to instantiate.
Returns
  • Element A new Element object with the following attributes:
Throws
DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an invalid character.
DOMException NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is neither null nor an empty string nor "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", or if the qualifiedName has a prefix different from "xml" and the namespaceURI is null or an empty string.

public Element createElementNS (String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, String localpart)

NON-DOM: a factory method used by the Xerces DOM parser to create an element.

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the element to create.
qualifiedName The qualified name of the element type to instantiate.
localpart The local name of the attribute to instantiate.
Returns
  • Element A new Element object with the following attributes:
Throws
DOMException INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an invalid character.

public Entity createEntity (String name)

NON-DOM Factory method; creates an Entity having this Document as its OwnerDoc. (REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001 left the process of building DTD information unspecified.)

Parameters
name The name of the Entity we wish to provide a value for.
Throws
for HTML documents, where nonstandard entities are not permitted. (HTML not yet implemented.)
DOMException

public EntityReference createEntityReference (String name)

Factory method; creates an EntityReference having this Document as its OwnerDoc.

Parameters
name The name of the Entity we wish to refer to
Throws
for HTML documents, where nonstandard entities are not permitted. (HTML not yet implemented.)
DOMException

public Notation createNotation (String name)

NON-DOM Factory method; creates a Notation having this Document as its OwnerDoc. (REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001 left the process of building DTD information unspecified.)

Parameters
name The name of the Notation we wish to describe
Throws
for HTML documents, where notations are not permitted. (HTML not yet implemented.)
DOMException

public ProcessingInstruction createProcessingInstruction (String target, String data)

Factory method; creates a ProcessingInstruction having this Document as its OwnerDoc.

Parameters
target The target "processor channel"
data Parameter string to be passed to the target.
Throws
if the target name is not acceptable.
for HTML documents. (HTML not yet implemented.)
DOMException

public Text createTextNode (String data)

Factory method; creates a Text node having this Document as its OwnerDoc.

Parameters
data The initial contents of the Text.

public boolean getAsync ()

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. Indicates whether the method load should be synchronous or asynchronous. When the async attribute is set to true the load method returns control to the caller before the document has completed loading. The default value of this property is false.
Setting the value of this attribute might throw NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR if the implementation doesn't support the mode the attribute is being set to. Should the DOM spec define the default value of this property? What if implementing both async and sync IO is impractical in some systems? 2001-09-14. default is false but we need to check with Mozilla and IE.

public String getBaseURI ()

Returns the absolute base URI of this node or null if the implementation wasn't able to obtain an absolute URI. Note: If the URI is malformed, a null is returned.

Returns
  • The absolute base URI of this node or null.

public DocumentType getDoctype ()

For XML, this provides access to the Document Type Definition. For HTML documents, and XML documents which don't specify a DTD, it will be null.

public Element getDocumentElement ()

Convenience method, allowing direct access to the child node which is considered the root of the actual document content. For HTML, where it is legal to have more than one Element at the top level of the document, we pick the one with the tagName "HTML". For XML there should be only one top-level (HTML not yet supported.)

public String getDocumentURI ()

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. The location of the document or null if undefined.
Beware that when the Document supports the feature "HTML" , the href attribute of the HTML BASE element takes precedence over this attribute.

public DOMConfiguration getDomConfig ()

DOM Level 3 CR - Experimental The configuration used when Document.normalizeDocument is invoked.

public Element getElementById (String elementId)

Introduced in DOM Level 2 Returns the Element whose ID is given by elementId. If no such element exists, returns null. Behavior is not defined if more than one element has this ID.

Note: The DOM implementation must have information that says which attributes are of type ID. Attributes with the name "ID" are not of type ID unless so defined. Implementations that do not know whether attributes are of type ID or not are expected to return null.

public NodeList getElementsByTagName (String tagname)

Return a live collection of all descendent Elements (not just immediate children) having the specified tag name.

Parameters
tagname The type of Element we want to gather. "*" will be taken as a wildcard, meaning "all elements in the document."
See Also

public NodeList getElementsByTagNameNS (String namespaceURI, String localName)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

Returns a NodeList of all the Elements with a given local name and namespace URI in the order in which they would be encountered in a preorder traversal of the Document tree.

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all namespaces. When it is null or an empty string, this method behaves like getElementsByTagName.
localName The local name of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all local names.
Returns
  • NodeList A new NodeList object containing all the matched Elements.

public String getEncoding ()

This method is deprecated.
This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.

public boolean getErrorChecking ()

Returns true if the DOM implementation performs error checking.

public Object getFeature (String feature, String version)

public Element getIdentifier (String idName)

Returns a previously registered element with the specified identifier name, or null if no element is registered.

public Enumeration getIdentifiers ()

Returns an enumeration registered of identifier names.

public DOMImplementation getImplementation ()

Retrieve information describing the abilities of this particular DOM implementation. Intended to support applications that may be using DOMs retrieved from several different sources, potentially with different underlying representations.

public String getInputEncoding ()

DOM Level 3 CR - Experimental. (Was getActualEncoding) An attribute specifying the encoding used for this document at the time of the parsing. This is null when it is not known, such as when the Document was created in memory.

public String getNodeName ()

Returns the node name.

public short getNodeType ()

Returns the node type.

public final 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.

public boolean getStandalone ()

This method is deprecated.
This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.

public boolean getStrictErrorChecking ()

public String getTextContent ()

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

Throws
DOMException

public Object getUserData (Node n, 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.

Parameters
n The node the object is associated to.
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.

public String getVersion ()

This method is deprecated.
This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.

public String getXmlEncoding ()

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. The encoding of this document (part of XML Declaration)

public boolean getXmlStandalone ()

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. standalone that specifies whether this document is standalone (part of XML Declaration)

public String getXmlVersion ()

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. The version of this document (part of XML Declaration)

public Node importNode (Node source, boolean deep)

Copies a node from another document to this document. The new nodes are created using this document's factory methods and are populated with the data from the source's accessor methods defined by the DOM interfaces. Its behavior is otherwise similar to that of cloneNode.

According to the DOM specifications, document nodes cannot be imported and a NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR exception is thrown if attempted.

Throws
DOMException

public Node insertBefore (Node newChild, Node refChild)

Since a Document may contain at most one top-level Element child, and at most one DocumentType declaraction, we need to subclass our add-children methods to implement this constraint. Since appendChild() is implemented as insertBefore(,null), altering the latter fixes both.

While I'm doing so, I've taken advantage of the opportunity to cache documentElement and docType so we don't have to search for them. REVISIT: According to the spec it is not allowed to alter neither the document element nor the document type in any way

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

public static final boolean isValidQName (String prefix, String local, boolean xml11Version)

Checks if the given qualified name is legal with respect to the version of XML to which this document must conform.

Parameters
prefix prefix of qualified name
local local part of qualified name

public static final boolean isXMLName (String s, boolean xml11Version)

Check the string against XML's definition of acceptable names for elements and attributes and so on using the XMLCharacterProperties utility class

public boolean load (String uri)

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. Replaces the content of the document with the result of parsing the given URI. Invoking this method will either block the caller or return to the caller immediately depending on the value of the async attribute. Once the document is fully loaded a "load" event (as defined in [DOM Level 3 Events] , except that the Event.targetNode will be the document, not an element) will be dispatched on the document. If an error occurs, an implementation dependent "error" event will be dispatched on the document. If this method is called on a document that is currently loading, the current load is interrupted and the new URI load is initiated.
When invoking this method the parameters used in the DOMParser interface are assumed to have their default values with the exception that the parameters "entities" , "normalize-characters", "check-character-normalization" are set to "false".
The result of a call to this method is the same the result of a call to DOMParser.parseWithContext with an input stream referencing the URI that was passed to this call, the document as the context node, and the action ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN.

Parameters
uri The URI reference for the XML file to be loaded. If this is a relative URI, the base URI used by the implementation is implementation dependent.
Returns
  • If async is set to true load returns true if the document load was successfully initiated. If an error occurred when initiating the document load, load returns false.If async is set to false load returns true if the document was successfully loaded and parsed. If an error occurred when either loading or parsing the URI, load returns false.

public boolean loadXML (String source)

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. Replace the content of the document with the result of parsing the input string, this method is always synchronous.

Parameters
source A string containing an XML document.
Returns
  • true if parsing the input string succeeded without errors, otherwise false.

public void normalizeDocument ()

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental Normalize document.

public void putIdentifier (String idName, Element element)

Registers an identifier name with a specified element node. If the identifier is already registered, the new element node replaces the previous node. If the specified element node is null, removeIdentifier() is called.

public Node removeChild (Node oldChild)

Since insertBefore caches the docElement (and, currently, docType), removeChild has to know how to undo the cache REVISIT: According to the spec it is not allowed to alter neither the document element nor the document type in any way

Returns
  • oldChild, in its new state (removed).
Throws
DOMException

public void removeIdentifier (String idName)

Removes a previously registered element with the specified identifier name.

public Node renameNode (Node n, String namespaceURI, String name)

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. Renaming node

Throws
DOMException

public Node replaceChild (Node newChild, Node oldChild)

Since we cache the docElement (and, currently, docType), replaceChild has to update the cache REVISIT: According to the spec it is not allowed to alter neither the document element nor the document type in any way

Returns
  • oldChild, in its new state (removed).
Throws
DOMException

public String saveXML (Node node)

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. Save the document or the given node and all its descendants to a string (i.e. serialize the document or node).
The parameters used in the LSSerializer interface are assumed to have their default values when invoking this method.
The result of a call to this method is the same the result of a call to LSSerializer.writeToString with the document as the node to write.

Parameters
node Specifies what to serialize, if this parameter is null the whole document is serialized, if it's non-null the given node is serialized.
Returns
  • The serialized document or null in case an error occurred.
Throws
DOMException WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if the node passed in as the node parameter is from an other document.

public void setAsync (boolean async)

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. Indicates whether the method load should be synchronous or asynchronous. When the async attribute is set to true the load method returns control to the caller before the document has completed loading. The default value of this property is false.
Setting the value of this attribute might throw NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR if the implementation doesn't support the mode the attribute is being set to. Should the DOM spec define the default value of this property? What if implementing both async and sync IO is impractical in some systems? 2001-09-14. default is false but we need to check with Mozilla and IE.

public void setDocumentURI (String documentURI)

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.

public void setEncoding (String value)

This method is deprecated.
This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.

public void setErrorChecking (boolean check)

Sets whether the DOM implementation performs error checking upon operations. Turning off error checking only affects the following DOM checks:

  • Checking strings to make sure that all characters are legal XML characters
  • Hierarchy checking such as allowed children, checks for cycles, etc.

Turning off error checking does not turn off the following checks:

  • Read only checks
  • Checks related to DOM events

public void setInputEncoding (String value)

DOM Internal (Was a DOM L3 Core WD public interface method setActualEncoding ) An attribute specifying the actual encoding of this document. This is null otherwise.
This attribute represents the property [character encoding scheme] defined in .

public void setStandalone (boolean value)

This method is deprecated.
This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.

public void setStrictErrorChecking (boolean check)

public void setTextContent (String textContent)

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

Throws
DOMException

public Object setUserData (Node n, 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.

Parameters
n The node to associate the object to.
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.

public void setVersion (String value)

This method is deprecated.
This method is internal and only exists for compatibility with older applications. New applications should never call this method.

public void setXmlEncoding (String value)

DOM Internal (Was a DOM L3 Core WD public interface method setXMLEncoding ) An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the encoding of this document. This is null when unspecified.

public void setXmlStandalone (boolean value)

DOM Level 3 CR - Experimental. Xmlstandalone - An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, whether this document is standalone

Throws
DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document does not support the "XML" feature.

public void setXmlVersion (String value)

DOM Level 3 CR - Experimental. version - An attribute specifying, as part of the XML declaration, the version number of this document.

Protected Methods

protected void addEventListener (NodeImpl node, String type, EventListener listener, boolean useCapture)

protected void callUserDataHandlers (Node n, Node c, short operation)

Call user data handlers when a node is deleted (finalized)

Parameters
n The node this operation applies to.
c The copy node or null.
operation The operation - import, clone, or delete.

protected void changed ()

Denotes that this node has changed.

protected int changes ()

Returns the number of changes to this node.

protected final void checkDOMNSErr (String prefix, String namespace)

protected final void checkNamespaceWF (String qname, int colon1, int colon2)

Call user data handlers to let them know the nodes they are related to are being deleted. The alternative would be to do that on Node but because the nodes are used as the keys we have a reference to them that prevents them from being gc'ed until the document is. At the same time, doing it here has the advantage of avoiding a finalize() method on Node, which would affect all nodes and not just the ones that have a user data.

protected final void checkQName (String prefix, String local)

Checks if the given qualified name is legal with respect to the version of XML to which this document must conform.

Parameters
prefix prefix of qualified name
local local part of qualified name

protected final void clearIdentifiers ()

Remove all identifiers from the ID table

protected void cloneNode (CoreDocumentImpl newdoc, boolean deep)

internal method to share code with subclass

protected void copyEventListeners (NodeImpl src, NodeImpl tgt)

protected boolean dispatchEvent (NodeImpl node, Event event)

protected int getNodeNumber ()

NON-DOM: Get the number associated with this document. Used to order documents in the implementation.

protected int getNodeNumber (Node node)

NON-DOM: Get a number associated with a node created with respect to this document. Needed for compareDocumentPosition when nodes are disconnected. This is only used on demand.

protected Object getUserData (NodeImpl n)

NON-DOM: kept for backward compatibility Retreive user data related to a given node

protected Hashtable getUserDataRecord (Node n)

protected boolean isKidOK (Node parent, Node child)

Uses the kidOK lookup table to check whether the proposed tree structure is legal.

protected void removeEventListener (NodeImpl node, String type, EventListener listener, boolean useCapture)

protected void setUserData (NodeImpl n, Object data)

NON-DOM: kept for backward compatibility Store user data related to a given node This is a place where we could use weak references! Indeed, the node here won't be GC'ed as long as some user data is attached to it, since the userData table will have a reference to the node.

protected void undeferChildren (Node node)

Traverses the DOM Tree and expands deferred nodes and their children.