org.apache.tomcat.util.digester
Class NodeCreateRule

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Rule
      org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.NodeCreateRule

public class NodeCreateRule
extends Rule

A rule implementation that creates a DOM Node containing the XML at the element that matched the rule. Two concrete types of nodes can be created by this rule:

• the default is to create an Element node. The created element will correspond to the element that matched the rule, containing all XML content underneath that element.
• alternatively, this rule can create nodes of type DocumentFragment, which will contain only the XML content under the element the rule was triggered on.

The created node will be normalized, meaning it will not contain text nodes that only contain white space characters.

The created Node will be pushed on Digester's object stack when done. To use it in the context of another DOM Document, it must be imported first, using the Document method importNode().

Important Note: This is implemented by replacing the SAX ContentHandler in the parser used by Digester, and resetting it when the matched element is closed. As a side effect, rules that would match XML nodes under the element that matches a NodeCreateRule will never be triggered by Digester, which usually is the behavior one would expect.

Note that the current implementation does not set the namespace prefixes in the exported nodes. The (usually more important) namespace URIs are set, of course.

Since:

Digester 1.4

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Rule

digester, namespaceURI

Constructor Summary

NodeCreateRule()
Default constructor.

NodeCreateRule(DocumentBuilder documentBuilder)
Constructor.

NodeCreateRule(int nodeType)
Constructor.

NodeCreateRule(int nodeType, DocumentBuilder documentBuilder)
Constructor.

Method Summary

void	begin(String namespaceURI, String name, Attributes attributes) Implemented to replace the content handler currently in use by a NodeBuilder.
void	end(String namespace, String name) Pop the Node off the top of the stack.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Rule

begin, body, body, end, finish, getDigester, getNamespaceURI, setDigester, setNamespaceURI

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

NodeCreateRule

public NodeCreateRule()
               throws ParserConfigurationException

Default constructor. Creates an instance of this rule that will create a DOM Element.

Throws:

ParserConfigurationException

NodeCreateRule

public NodeCreateRule(DocumentBuilder documentBuilder)

Constructor. Creates an instance of this rule that will create a DOM Element, but lets you specify the JAXP DocumentBuilder that should be used when constructing the node tree.

Parameters:

documentBuilder - the JAXP DocumentBuilder to use

NodeCreateRule

public NodeCreateRule(int nodeType)
               throws ParserConfigurationException

Constructor. Creates an instance of this rule that will create either a DOM Element or a DOM DocumentFragment, depending on the value of the nodeType parameter.

Parameters:

nodeType - the type of node to create, which can be either Node.ELEMENT_NODE or Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the node type is not supported

ParserConfigurationException

NodeCreateRule

public NodeCreateRule(int nodeType,
                      DocumentBuilder documentBuilder)

Constructor. Creates an instance of this rule that will create either a DOM Element or a DOM DocumentFragment, depending on the value of the nodeType parameter. This constructor lets you specify the JAXP DocumentBuilder that should be used when constructing the node tree.

Parameters:

nodeType - the type of node to create, which can be either Node.ELEMENT_NODE or Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE

documentBuilder - the JAXP DocumentBuilder to use

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the node type is not supported

Method Detail

begin

public void begin(String namespaceURI,
                  String name,
                  Attributes attributes)
           throws Exception

Implemented to replace the content handler currently in use by a NodeBuilder.

Overrides:

begin in class Rule

Parameters:

namespaceURI - the namespace URI of the matching element, or an empty string if the parser is not namespace aware or the element has no namespace

name - the local name if the parser is namespace aware, or just the element name otherwise

attributes - The attribute list of this element

Throws:

Exception - indicates a JAXP configuration problem

end

public void end(String namespace,
                String name)
         throws Exception

Pop the Node off the top of the stack.

Overrides:

end in class Rule

Parameters:

namespace - the namespace URI of the matching element, or an empty string if the parser is not namespace aware or the element has no namespace

name - the local name if the parser is namespace aware, or just the element name otherwise

Throws:

Exception