org.castor.xmlctf.xmldiff.xml.nodes
Class ParentNode

java.lang.Object
  org.castor.xmlctf.xmldiff.xml.nodes.XMLNode
      org.castor.xmlctf.xmldiff.xml.nodes.ParentNode

Direct Known Subclasses:

Element, Root

public abstract class ParentNode
extends XMLNode

The base object for both Element and RootNode. The children of a ParentNode can be any type of XMLNode.

Since:

Castor 1.1

Version:

$Revision: 0000 $ $Date: 2007-01-11 00:00:00 -0600 (Thu, 11 Jan 2007) $

Author:

Edward Kuns

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.castor.xmlctf.xmldiff.xml.nodes.XMLNode

ATTRIBUTE, ELEMENT, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, ROOT, TEXT

Constructor Summary

ParentNode(java.lang.String namespace, java.lang.String localName, int nodeType)
Creates a new ParentNode.

Method Summary

void	addChild(XMLNode node) Adds the given child node to this ParentNode.
java.util.Iterator	getChildIterator() Returns an Iterator over the list of child nodes.
java.lang.String	getStringValue() Returns the string value of this parent node.
boolean	hasChildNodes() Returns true if this node has any child nodes.

Methods inherited from class org.castor.xmlctf.xmldiff.xml.nodes.XMLNode

getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNamespaceURI, getNodeLocation, getNodeType, getParentNode, getRootNode, getXPath, setNamespace, setParent

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ParentNode

ParentNode(java.lang.String namespace,
           java.lang.String localName,
           int nodeType)

Creates a new ParentNode.

Parameters:

namespace - the namespace URI for this node. (May be null.)

localName - the local-name of this node. (Cannot be null.)

nodeType - the node type being created

Method Detail

getChildIterator

public java.util.Iterator getChildIterator()

Returns an Iterator over the list of child nodes.

Returns:

an Iterator over the list of child nodes.

hasChildNodes

public boolean hasChildNodes()

Returns true if this node has any child nodes.

Returns:

True if this node has any child nodes.

getStringValue

public java.lang.String getStringValue()

Returns the string value of this parent node. The string value is the concatenation of the string value of all child nodes.

Specified by:

getStringValue in class XMLNode

Returns:

The string value of the node

addChild

public void addChild(XMLNode node)

Adds the given child node to this ParentNode.

Parameters:

node - the child node to add