org.apache.xerces.dom
Class DocumentFragmentImpl

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
      extended by org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
          extended by org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
              extended by org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentFragmentImpl
All Implemented Interfaces:
java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable, DocumentFragment, EventTarget, Node, NodeList

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:
$Id: DocumentFragmentImpl.java 447266 2006-09-18 05:57:49Z mrglavas $
See Also:
Serialized Form

Field Summary
 
Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IS_CONTAINED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, ELEMENT_DEFINITION_NODE, TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR, TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT, TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT, TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING, TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING, TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE
 
Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node
ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, 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.
 void normalize()
          Override default behavior to call normalize() on this Node's children.
 
Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode
cloneNode, getChildNodes, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLength, getOwnerDocument, getTextContent, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isEqualNode, item, removeChild, replaceChild, setReadOnly, setTextContent
 
Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
getNextSibling, getParentNode, getPreviousSibling
 
Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
addEventListener, appendChild, compareDocumentPosition, compareTreePosition, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getFeature, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNodeValue, getPrefix, getReadOnly, getUserData, getUserData, hasAttributes, isDefaultNamespace, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, needsSyncChildren, removeEventListener, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setUserData, setUserData, toString
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 
Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node
appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData
 

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.

Specified by:
getNodeType in interface Node
Specified by:
getNodeType in class NodeImpl

getNodeName

public java.lang.String getNodeName()
Returns the node name.

Specified by:
getNodeName in interface Node
Specified by:
getNodeName in class NodeImpl

normalize

public void normalize()
Override default behavior to call normalize() on this Node's children. It is up to implementors or Node to override normalize() to take action.

Specified by:
normalize in interface Node
Overrides:
normalize in class ParentNode