org.apache.xerces.dom
Class DocumentFragmentImpl

java.lang.Object
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public class DocumentFragmentImpl

extends ParentNode

implements DocumentFragment

DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document object. It is very common to want to be able to extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a Document object could fulfil this role, a Document object can potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation... and in DOM Level 1, nodes aren't allowed to cross Document boundaries anyway. What is really needed for this is a very lightweight object. DocumentFragment is such an object.

Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node.

The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the document. DocumentFragment do not need to be well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one child and that child node could be a Text node. Such a structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document.

When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a Document (or indeed any other Node that may take children) the children of the DocumentFragment and not the DocumentFragment itself are inserted into the Node. This makes the DocumentFragment very useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the DocumentFragment acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the standard methods from the Node interface, such as insertBefore() and appendChild().

Since:

PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.

Version:

See Also:

Serialized Form

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode

fCachedChild, fCachedChildIndex, fCachedLength, firstChild, ownerDocument

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode

nextSibling, previousSibling

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl

ELEMENT_DEFINITION_NODE, FIRSTCHILD, flags, HASSTRING, IGNORABLEWS, OWNED, ownerNode, READONLY, SPECIFIED, SYNCCHILDREN, SYNCDATA, UNNORMALIZED

Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Constructor Summary

DocumentFragmentImpl()
Constructor for serialization.

DocumentFragmentImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc)
Factory constructor.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getNodeName() Returns the node name.
short	getNodeType() A short integer indicating what type of node this is.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode

cloneNode, getChildNodes, getChildNodesUnoptimized, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLength, getOwnerDocument, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, item, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setReadOnly, synchronizeChildren

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode

getNextSibling, getParentNode, getPreviousSibling

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl

addEventListener, appendChild, changed, changes, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNodeValue, getPrefix, getReadOnly, getUserData, hasAttributes, isSupported, removeEventListener, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setUserData, synchronizeData, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DocumentFragmentImpl

public DocumentFragmentImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc)

Factory constructor.

DocumentFragmentImpl

public DocumentFragmentImpl()

Constructor for serialization.

Method Detail

getNodeType

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.

Overrides:

getNodeType in class NodeImpl

getNodeName

public java.lang.String getNodeName()

Returns the node name.

Overrides:

getNodeName in class NodeImpl