public class

ElementImpl

extends ParentNode
implements Element TypeInfo
java.lang.Object
   ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
     ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
       ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
         ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.ElementImpl
Known Direct Subclasses
Known Indirect Subclasses

Class Overview

Elements represent most of the "markup" and structure of the document. They contain both the data for the element itself (element name and attributes), and any contained nodes, including document text (as children).

Elements may have Attributes associated with them; the API for this is defined in Node, but the function is implemented here. In general, XML applications should retrive Attributes as Nodes, since they may contain entity references and hence be a fairly complex sub-tree. HTML users will be dealing with simple string values, and convenience methods are provided to work in terms of Strings.

ElementImpl does not support Namespaces. ElementNSImpl, which inherits from it, does.@xerces.internal

See Also

Summary

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Inherited Constants
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
From interface org.w3c.dom.Node
From interface org.w3c.dom.TypeInfo
Fields
protected AttributeMap attributes Attributes.
protected String name Element name.
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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
ElementImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, String name)
Factory constructor.
Protected Constructors
ElementImpl()
Public Methods
Node cloneNode(boolean deep)
Return a duplicate copy of this Element.
String getAttribute(String name)
Look up a single Attribute by name.
String getAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String localName)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
Attr getAttributeNode(String name)
Look up a single Attribute by name.
Attr getAttributeNodeNS(String namespaceURI, String localName)
Retrieves an Attr node by local name and namespace URI.
NamedNodeMap getAttributes()
Retrieve all the Attributes as a set.
String getBaseURI()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental.
NodeList getElementsByTagName(String tagname)
Returns a NodeList of all descendent nodes (children, grandchildren, and so on) which are Elements and which have the specified tag name.
NodeList getElementsByTagNameNS(String namespaceURI, String localName)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
String getNodeName()
Returns the element name
short getNodeType()
A short integer indicating what type of node this is.
TypeInfo getSchemaTypeInfo()
Method getSchemaTypeInfo.
String getTagName()
Returns the name of the Element.
String getTypeName()
String getTypeNamespace()
boolean hasAttribute(String name)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
boolean hasAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String localName)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
boolean hasAttributes()
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
boolean isDerivedFrom(String typeNamespaceArg, String typeNameArg, int derivationMethod)
Introduced in DOM Level 3.
boolean isEqualNode(Node arg)
DOM Level 3 WD- Experimental.
void normalize()
In "normal form" (as read from a source file), there will never be two Text children in succession.
void removeAttribute(String name)
Remove the named attribute from this Element.
void removeAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String localName)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
Attr removeAttributeNode(Attr oldAttr)
Remove the specified attribute/value pair.
void setAttribute(String name, String value)
Add a new name/value pair, or replace the value of the existing attribute having that name.
void setAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, String value)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
Attr setAttributeNode(Attr newAttr)
Add a new attribute/value pair, or replace the value of the existing attribute with that name.
Attr setAttributeNodeNS(Attr newAttr)
Introduced in DOM Level 2.
void setIdAttribute(String name, boolean makeId)
DOM Level 3: register the given attribute node as an ID attribute
void setIdAttributeNS(String namespaceURI, String localName, boolean makeId)
DOM Level 3: register the given attribute node as an ID attribute
void setIdAttributeNode(Attr at, boolean makeId)
DOM Level 3: register the given attribute node as an ID attribute
void setReadOnly(boolean readOnly, boolean deep)
NON-DOM: Subclassed to flip the attributes' readonly switch as well.
Protected Methods
NamedNodeMapImpl getDefaultAttributes()
Get the default attributes.
int getXercesAttribute(String namespaceURI, String localName)
NON-DOM: get inded of an attribute
void reconcileDefaultAttributes()
Reconcile default attributes.
void setOwnerDocument(CoreDocumentImpl doc)
NON-DOM set the ownerDocument of this node, its children, and its attributes
int setXercesAttributeNode(Attr attr)
NON-DOM: sets attribute node for this element
void setupDefaultAttributes()
Setup the default attributes.
void synchronizeData()
Synchronizes the data (name and value) for fast nodes.
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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.Element
From interface org.w3c.dom.Node
From interface org.w3c.dom.NodeList
From interface org.w3c.dom.TypeInfo
From interface org.w3c.dom.events.EventTarget

Fields

protected AttributeMap attributes

Attributes.

protected String name

Element name.

Public Constructors

public ElementImpl (CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, String name)

Factory constructor.

Protected Constructors

protected ElementImpl ()

Public Methods

public Node cloneNode (boolean deep)

Return a duplicate copy of this Element. Note that its children will not be copied unless the "deep" flag is true, but Attributes are always replicated.

public String getAttribute (String name)

Look up a single Attribute by name. Returns the Attribute's string value, or an empty string (NOT null!) to indicate that the name did not map to a currently defined attribute.

Note: Attributes may contain complex node trees. This method returns the "flattened" string obtained from Attribute.getValue(). If you need the structure information, see getAttributeNode().

public String getAttributeNS (String namespaceURI, String localName)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

Retrieves an attribute value by local name and namespace URI.

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the attribute to retrieve.
localName The local name of the attribute to retrieve.
Returns
  • String The Attr value as a string, or empty string if that attribute does not have a specified or default value.

public Attr getAttributeNode (String name)

Look up a single Attribute by name. Returns the Attribute Node, so its complete child tree is available. This could be important in XML, where the string rendering may not be sufficient information.

If no matching attribute is available, returns null.

public Attr getAttributeNodeNS (String namespaceURI, String localName)

Retrieves an Attr node by local name and namespace URI.

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the attribute to retrieve.
localName The local name of the attribute to retrieve.
Returns
  • Attr The Attr node with the specified attribute local name and namespace URI or null if there is no such attribute.

public NamedNodeMap getAttributes ()

Retrieve all the Attributes as a set. Note that this API is inherited from Node rather than specified on Element; in fact only Elements will ever have Attributes, but they want to allow folks to "blindly" operate on the tree as a set of Nodes.

public String getBaseURI ()

DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. Retrieve baseURI

public NodeList getElementsByTagName (String tagname)

Returns a NodeList of all descendent nodes (children, grandchildren, and so on) which are Elements and which have the specified tag name.

Note: NodeList is a "live" view of the DOM. Its contents will change as the DOM changes, and alterations made to the NodeList will be reflected in the DOM.

Parameters
tagname The type of element to gather. To obtain a list of all elements no matter what their names, use the wild-card tag name "*".
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, starting from this node.

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 getNodeName ()

Returns the element name

public 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.

public TypeInfo getSchemaTypeInfo ()

Method getSchemaTypeInfo.

Returns
  • TypeInfo

public String getTagName ()

Returns the name of the Element. Note that Element.nodeName() is defined to also return the tag name.

This is case-preserving in XML. HTML should uppercasify it on the way in.

public String getTypeName ()

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public String getTypeNamespace ()

public boolean hasAttribute (String name)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

public boolean hasAttributeNS (String namespaceURI, String localName)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

public boolean hasAttributes ()

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

Returns
  • true if this node has any attributes, false otherwise.

public boolean isDerivedFrom (String typeNamespaceArg, String typeNameArg, int derivationMethod)

Introduced in DOM Level 3.

Checks if a type is derived from another by restriction. See: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#TypeInfo-isDerivedFrom

Parameters
typeNamespaceArg The namspace of the ancestor type declaration
typeNameArg The name of the ancestor type declaration
derivationMethod The derivation method
Returns
  • boolean True if the type is derived by restriciton for the reference type

public boolean isEqualNode (Node arg)

DOM Level 3 WD- Experimental. Override inherited behavior from NodeImpl and ParentNode to check on attributes

Parameters
arg The node to compare equality with.
Returns
  • If the nodes, and possibly subtrees are equal, true otherwise false.

public void normalize ()

In "normal form" (as read from a source file), there will never be two Text children in succession. But DOM users may create successive Text nodes in the course of manipulating the document. Normalize walks the sub-tree and merges adjacent Texts, as if the DOM had been written out and read back in again. This simplifies implementation of higher-level functions that may want to assume that the document is in standard form.

To normalize a Document, normalize its top-level Element child.

As of PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818, CDATA -- despite being a subclass of Text -- is considered "markup" and will _not_ be merged either with normal Text or with other CDATASections.

public void removeAttribute (String name)

Remove the named attribute from this Element. If the removed Attribute has a default value, it is immediately replaced thereby.

The default logic is actually implemented in NamedNodeMapImpl. PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818 doesn't fully address the DTD, so some of this behavior is likely to change in future versions. ?????

Note that this call "succeeds" even if no attribute by this name existed -- unlike removeAttributeNode, which will throw a not-found exception in that case.

Throws
if the node is readonly.

public void removeAttributeNS (String namespaceURI, String localName)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

Removes an attribute by local name and namespace URI. If the removed attribute has a default value it is immediately replaced. The replacing attribute has the same namespace URI and local name, as well as the original prefix.

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the attribute to remove.
localName The local name of the attribute to remove.
Throws
Raised if this node is readonly.

public Attr removeAttributeNode (Attr oldAttr)

Remove the specified attribute/value pair. If the removed Attribute has a default value, it is immediately replaced.

NOTE: Specifically removes THIS NODE -- not the node with this name, nor the node with these contents. If the specific Attribute object passed in is not stored in this Element, we throw a DOMException. If you really want to remove an attribute by name, use removeAttribute().

Returns
  • the Attribute object that was removed.
Throws
if oldattr is not an attribute of this Element.
if the node is readonly.
DOMException

public void setAttribute (String name, String value)

Add a new name/value pair, or replace the value of the existing attribute having that name. Note: this method supports only the simplest kind of Attribute, one whose value is a string contained in a single Text node. If you want to assert a more complex value (which XML permits, though HTML doesn't), see setAttributeNode(). The attribute is created with specified=true, meaning it's an explicit value rather than inherited from the DTD as a default. Again, setAttributeNode can be used to achieve other results.

Throws
if the name is not acceptable. (Attribute factory will do that test for us.)
if the node is readonly.

public void setAttributeNS (String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, String value)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

Adds a new attribute. If the given namespaceURI is null or an empty string and the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml", the new attribute is bound to the predefined namespace "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" [Namespaces]. If an attribute with the same local name and namespace URI is already present on the element, its prefix is changed to be the prefix part of the qualifiedName, and its value is changed to be the value parameter. This value is a simple string, it is not parsed as it is being set. So any markup (such as syntax to be recognized as an entity reference) is treated as literal text, and needs to be appropriately escaped by the implementation when it is written out. In order to assign an attribute value that contains entity references, the user must create an Attr node plus any Text and EntityReference nodes, build the appropriate subtree, and use setAttributeNodeNS or setAttributeNode to assign it as the value of an attribute.

Parameters
namespaceURI The namespace URI of the attribute to create or alter.
qualifiedName The qualified name of the attribute to create or alter.
value The value to set in string form.
Throws
Raised if the specified name contains an invalid character.
Raised if this node is readonly.
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 that is "xmlns" but the namespaceURI is neither null nor an empty string, or if if the qualifiedName has a prefix different from "xml" and "xmlns" and the namespaceURI is null or an empty string.

public Attr setAttributeNode (Attr newAttr)

Add a new attribute/value pair, or replace the value of the existing attribute with that name.

This method allows you to add an Attribute that has already been constructed, and hence avoids the limitations of the simple setAttribute() call. It can handle attribute values that have arbitrarily complex tree structure -- in particular, those which had entity references mixed into their text.

Throws
if the Attribute object has already been assigned to another Element.
DOMException

public Attr setAttributeNodeNS (Attr newAttr)

Introduced in DOM Level 2.

Adds a new attribute. If an attribute with that local name and namespace URI is already present in the element, it is replaced by the new one.

Parameters
newAttr The Attr node to add to the attribute list. When the Node has no namespaceURI, this method behaves like setAttributeNode.
Returns
  • Attr If the newAttr attribute replaces an existing attribute with the same local name and namespace URI, the * previously existing Attr node is returned, otherwise null is returned.
Throws
Raised if newAttr was created from a different document than the one that created the element.
Raised if this node is readonly.
Raised if newAttr is already an attribute of another Element object. The DOM user must explicitly clone Attr nodes to re-use them in other elements.
DOMException

public void setIdAttribute (String name, boolean makeId)

DOM Level 3: register the given attribute node as an ID attribute

public void setIdAttributeNS (String namespaceURI, String localName, boolean makeId)

DOM Level 3: register the given attribute node as an ID attribute

public void setIdAttributeNode (Attr at, boolean makeId)

DOM Level 3: register the given attribute node as an ID attribute

public void setReadOnly (boolean readOnly, boolean deep)

NON-DOM: Subclassed to flip the attributes' readonly switch as well.

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.

Protected Methods

protected NamedNodeMapImpl getDefaultAttributes ()

Get the default attributes.

protected int getXercesAttribute (String namespaceURI, String localName)

NON-DOM: get inded of an attribute

protected void reconcileDefaultAttributes ()

Reconcile default attributes.

protected void setOwnerDocument (CoreDocumentImpl doc)

NON-DOM set the ownerDocument of this node, its children, and its attributes

protected int setXercesAttributeNode (Attr attr)

NON-DOM: sets attribute node for this element

protected void setupDefaultAttributes ()

Setup the default attributes.

protected void synchronizeData ()

Synchronizes the data (name and value) for fast nodes.