javolution.xml.sax

Interface ContentHandler

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultHandler

public interface ContentHandler

Receives notification of the logical content of a document.

It is a more efficient version of org.xml.sax.ContentHandler with CharArray/CharSequence instead of the String to avoid forcing dynamic object allocations.

Version:

4.0, June 16, 2006

Author:

David Megginson, Jean-Marie Dautelle

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	characters(char[] ch, int start, int length) Receives notification of character data.
void	endDocument() Receives notification of the end of a document.
void	endElement(CharArray uri, CharArray localName, CharArray qName) Receives notification of the end of an element.
void	endPrefixMapping(CharArray prefix) Ends the scope of a prefix-URI mapping.
void	ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch, int start, int length) Receives notification of ignorable whitespace in element content.
void	processingInstruction(CharArray target, CharArray data) Receives notification of a processing instruction.
void	setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) Receives an object for locating the origin of SAX document events.
void	skippedEntity(CharArray name) Receives notification of a skipped entity.
void	startDocument() Receives notification of the beginning of a document.
void	startElement(CharArray uri, CharArray localName, CharArray qName, Attributes atts) Receives notification of the beginning of an element.
void	startPrefixMapping(CharArray prefix, CharArray uri) Begins the scope of a prefix-URI Namespace mapping.

Method Detail

setDocumentLocator

void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator)

Receives an object for locating the origin of SAX document events.

Parameters:

locator - the document locator.

startDocument

void startDocument()
            throws SAXException

Receives notification of the beginning of a document.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

endDocument

void endDocument()
          throws SAXException

Receives notification of the end of a document.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

startPrefixMapping

void startPrefixMapping(CharArray prefix,
                        CharArray uri)
                 throws SAXException

Begins the scope of a prefix-URI Namespace mapping.

Parameters:

prefix - the Namespace prefix being declared.

uri - the namespace URI the prefix is mapped to.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

endPrefixMapping

void endPrefixMapping(CharArray prefix)
               throws SAXException

Ends the scope of a prefix-URI mapping.

Parameters:

prefix - the prefix that was being mapping.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

startElement

void startElement(CharArray uri,
                  CharArray localName,
                  CharArray qName,
                  Attributes atts)
           throws SAXException

Receives notification of the beginning of an element.

Parameters:

uri - the namespace URI, or an empty character sequence if the element has no Namespace URI or if namespace processing is not being performed.

localName - the local name (without prefix), or an empty character sequence if namespace processing is not being performed.

qName - the qualified name (with prefix), or an empty character sequence if qualified names are not available.

atts - the attributes attached to the element. If there are no attributes, it shall be an empty Attributes object.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

endElement

void endElement(CharArray uri,
                CharArray localName,
                CharArray qName)
         throws SAXException

Receives notification of the end of an element.

Parameters:

uri - the namespace URI, or an empty character sequence if the element has no Namespace URI or if namespace processing is not being performed.

localName - the local name (without prefix), or an empty character sequence if namespace processing is not being performed.

qName - the qualified XML 1.0 name (with prefix), or an empty character sequence if qualified names are not available.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

characters

void characters(char[] ch,
                int start,
                int length)
         throws SAXException

Receives notification of character data.

Parameters:

ch - the characters from the XML document.

start - the start position in the array.

length - the number of characters to read from the array.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

ignorableWhitespace

void ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch,
                         int start,
                         int length)
                  throws SAXException

Receives notification of ignorable whitespace in element content.

Parameters:

ch - the characters from the XML document.

start - the start position in the array.

length - the number of characters to read from the array.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

processingInstruction

void processingInstruction(CharArray target,
                           CharArray data)
                    throws SAXException

Receives notification of a processing instruction.

Parameters:

target - the processing instruction target.

data - the processing instruction data, or null if none was supplied. The data does not include any whitespace separating it from the target.

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.

skippedEntity

void skippedEntity(CharArray name)
            throws SAXException

Receives notification of a skipped entity.

Parameters:

name - the name of the skipped entity. If it is a parameter entity, the name will begin with '%', and if it is the external DTD subset, it will be the character sequence "[dtd]".

Throws:

SAXException - any SAX exception.