org.apache.xerces.xs
Interface XSAnnotation

All Superinterfaces:

XSObject

All Known Implementing Classes:

XSAnnotationImpl

public interface XSAnnotation
extends XSObject

This interface represents the Annotation schema component.

Field Summary

static short	SAX_CONTENTHANDLER The object type is org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.
static short	W3C_DOM_DOCUMENT The object type is org.w3c.dom.Document.
static short	W3C_DOM_ELEMENT The object type is org.w3c.dom.Element.

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getAnnotationString() A text representation of the annotation.
boolean	writeAnnotation(java.lang.Object target, short targetType) Write contents of the annotation to the specified object.

Methods inherited from interface org.apache.xerces.xs.XSObject

getName, getNamespace, getNamespaceItem, getType

Field Detail

W3C_DOM_ELEMENT

static final short W3C_DOM_ELEMENT

The object type is org.w3c.dom.Element.

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Constant Field Values

SAX_CONTENTHANDLER

static final short SAX_CONTENTHANDLER

The object type is org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.

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Constant Field Values

W3C_DOM_DOCUMENT

static final short W3C_DOM_DOCUMENT

The object type is org.w3c.dom.Document.

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

writeAnnotation

boolean writeAnnotation(java.lang.Object target,
                        short targetType)

Write contents of the annotation to the specified object. If the specified target is a DOM object, in-scope namespace declarations for annotation element are added as attribute nodes of the serialized annotation, otherwise the corresponding events for all in-scope namespace declarations are sent via the specified document handler.

Parameters:

target - A target pointer to the annotation target object, i.e. org.w3c.dom.Document, org.w3c.dom.Element , org.xml.sax.ContentHandler.

targetType - A target type.

Returns:

True if the target is a recognized type and supported by this implementation, otherwise false.

getAnnotationString

java.lang.String getAnnotationString()

A text representation of the annotation.