public interface

Characters

implements XMLEvent
javax.xml.stream.events.Characters

Class Overview

This describes the interface to Characters events. All text events get reported as Characters events. Content, CData and whitespace are all reported as Characters events. IgnorableWhitespace, in most cases, will be set to false unless an element declaration of element content is present for the current element.

Summary

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Inherited Constants
From interface javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants
Public Methods
abstract String getData()
Get the character data of this event
abstract boolean isCData()
Returns true if this is a CData section.
abstract boolean isIgnorableWhiteSpace()
Return true if this is ignorableWhiteSpace.
abstract boolean isWhiteSpace()
Returns true if this set of Characters is all whitespace.
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Inherited Methods
From interface javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent

Public Methods

public abstract String getData ()

Get the character data of this event

public abstract boolean isCData ()

Returns true if this is a CData section. If this event is CData its event type will be CDATA If javax.xml.stream.isCoalescing is set to true CDATA Sections that are surrounded by non CDATA characters will be reported as a single Characters event. This method will return false in this case.

public abstract boolean isIgnorableWhiteSpace ()

Return true if this is ignorableWhiteSpace. If this event is ignorableWhiteSpace its event type will be SPACE.

public abstract boolean isWhiteSpace ()

Returns true if this set of Characters is all whitespace. Whitespace inside a document is reported as CHARACTERS. This method allows checking of CHARACTERS events to see if they are composed of only whitespace characters