org.apache.xml.dtm.ref
Class DTMNodeIterator

java.lang.Object
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public class DTMNodeIterator

extends java.lang.Object

implements NodeIterator

DTMNodeIterator gives us an implementation of the DTMNodeIterator which returns DOM nodes. Please note that this is not necessarily equivlaent to a DOM NodeIterator operating over the same document. In particular:

• If there are several Text nodes in logical succession (ie, across CDATASection and EntityReference boundaries), we will return only the first; the caller is responsible for stepping through them. (%REVIEW% Provide a convenience routine here to assist, pending proposed DOM Level 3 getAdjacentText() operation?)
• Since the whole XPath/XSLT architecture assumes that the source document is not altered while we're working with it, we do not promise to implement the DOM NodeIterator's "maintain current position" response to document mutation.
• Since our design for XPath NodeIterators builds a stateful filter directly into the traversal object, getNodeFilter() is not supported.

State: In progress!!

Constructor Summary

DTMNodeIterator(DTMIterator dtmIterator)
Public constructor: Wrap a DTMNodeIterator around an existing and preconfigured DTMIterator

Method Summary

void	detach() Detaches the NodeIterator from the set which it iterated over, releasing any computational resources and placing the iterator in the INVALID state.
DTMIterator	getDTMIterator() Access the wrapped DTMIterator.
boolean	getExpandEntityReferences() The value of this flag determines whether the children of entity reference nodes are visible to the iterator.
NodeFilter	getFilter() Return a handle to the filter used to screen nodes.
Node	getRoot()
int	getWhatToShow() Return a mask describing which node types are presented via the iterator.
Node	nextNode()
Node	previousNode()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DTMNodeIterator

public DTMNodeIterator(DTMIterator dtmIterator)

Public constructor: Wrap a DTMNodeIterator around an existing and preconfigured DTMIterator

Method Detail

getDTMIterator

public DTMIterator getDTMIterator()

Access the wrapped DTMIterator. I'm not sure whether anyone will need this or not, but let's write it and think about it.

detach

public void detach()

Detaches the NodeIterator from the set which it iterated over, releasing any computational resources and placing the iterator in the INVALID state.

Specified by:

detach in interface NodeIterator

getExpandEntityReferences

public boolean getExpandEntityReferences()

The value of this flag determines whether the children of entity reference nodes are visible to the iterator.

Specified by:

getExpandEntityReferences in interface NodeIterator

Returns:

false, always (the DTM model flattens entity references)

getFilter

public NodeFilter getFilter()

Return a handle to the filter used to screen nodes. This is ill-defined in Xalan's usage of Nodeiterator, where we have built stateful XPath-based filtering directly into the traversal object. We could return something which supports the NodeFilter interface and allows querying whether a given node would be permitted if it appeared as our next node, but in the current implementation that would be very complex -- and just isn't all that useful.

Specified by:

getFilter in interface NodeIterator

Throws:

DOMException - -- NOT_SUPPORTED_ERROR because I can't think of anything more useful to do in this case

getRoot

public Node getRoot()

Specified by:

getRoot in interface NodeIterator

Returns:

The root node of the NodeIterator, as specified when it was created.

getWhatToShow

public int getWhatToShow()

Return a mask describing which node types are presented via the iterator.

Specified by:

getWhatToShow in interface NodeIterator

nextNode

public Node nextNode()
              throws DOMException

Specified by:

nextNode in interface NodeIterator

Returns:

the next node in the set and advance the position of the iterator in the set.

previousNode

public Node previousNode()

Specified by:

previousNode in interface NodeIterator

Returns:

the next previous in the set and advance the position of the iterator in the set.