public class

MixedContentModel

extends Object
implements ContentModelValidator
java.lang.Object
   ↳ org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.models.MixedContentModel

Class Overview

MixedContentModel is a derivative of the abstract content model base class that handles the special case of mixed model elements. If an element is mixed model, it has PCDATA as its first possible content, followed by an alternation of the possible children. The children cannot have any numeration or order, so it must look like this:

   <!ELEMENT Foo ((#PCDATA|a|b|c|)*)>
 
So, all we have to do is to keep an array of the possible children and validate by just looking up each child being validated by looking it up in the list.@xerces.internal

Summary

Public Constructors
MixedContentModel(QName[] children, int[] type, int offset, int length, boolean ordered)
Constructs a mixed content model.
Public Methods
int validate(QName[] children, int offset, int length)
Check that the specified content is valid according to this content model.
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Inherited Methods
From class java.lang.Object
From interface org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.models.ContentModelValidator

Public Constructors

public MixedContentModel (QName[] children, int[] type, int offset, int length, boolean ordered)

Constructs a mixed content model.

Parameters
children The list of allowed children.
type The list of the types of the children.
offset The start offset position in the children.
length The child count.
ordered True if content must be ordered.

Public Methods

public int validate (QName[] children, int offset, int length)

Check that the specified content is valid according to this content model. This method can also be called to do 'what if' testing of content models just to see if they would be valid.

A value of -1 in the children array indicates a PCDATA node. All other indexes will be positive and represent child elements. The count can be zero, since some elements have the EMPTY content model and that must be confirmed.

Parameters
children The children of this element. Each integer is an index within the StringPool of the child element name. An index of -1 is used to indicate an occurrence of non-whitespace character data.
offset Offset into the array where the children starts.
length The number of entries in the children array.
Returns
  • The value -1 if fully valid, else the 0 based index of the child that first failed. If the value returned is equal to the number of children, then the specified children are valid but additional content is required to reach a valid ending state.