Node
interface is the primary datatype for the entire
* Document Object Model.
*
* It represents a single node in the document tree.
* While all objects implementing the Node
interface expose
* methods for dealing with children, not all objects implementing the
* Node
interface may have children. For example,
* Text
nodes may not have children, and adding children to such
* nodes results in a DOMException
being raised.
* The attributes Operator == provides another way to perform this null test on a
* DOM_Node.
*/
bool isNull() const;
//@}
/** @name Set functions. */
//@{
/**
* Sets the value of the node.
*
* Any node which can have a nodeValue (@see getNodeValue) will
* also accept requests to set it to a string. The exact response to
* this varies from node to node -- Attribute, for example, stores
* its values in its children and has to replace them with a new Text
* holding the replacement value.
*
* For most types of Node, value is null and attempting to set it
* will throw DOMException(NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR). This will
* also be thrown if the node is read-only.
*/
void setNodeValue(const DOMString &nodeValue);
/**
* Set the user data for a node.
*
* User data allows application programs
* to attach extra data to DOM nodes, and can be retrieved using the
* function
* Deletion of the user data remains the responsibility of the
* application program; it will not be automatically deleted when
* the nodes themselves are reclaimed.
*
* Because DOM_Node is not designed to be subclassed, userdata
* provides an alternative means for extending the the information
* kept with nodes by an application program.
*
* @param p The pointer to be kept with the node.
*/
void setUserData(void *p);
//@}
/** @name Functions introduced in DOM Level 2. */
//@{
/**
* Puts all Note: In cases where the document contains
* This is not a computed value that is the result of a namespace lookup
* based on an examination of the namespace declarations in scope. It is
* merely the namespace URI given at creation time.
*
* For nodes of any type other than
* For nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method, such as
*
* Note that setting this attribute, when permitted, changes
* the
* Note also that changing the prefix of an
* attribute, that is known to have a default value, does not make a new
* attribute with the default value and the original prefix appear, since the
* nodeName
, nodeValue
and
* attributes
are included as a mechanism to get at node
* information without casting down to the specific derived interface. In
* cases where there is no obvious mapping of these attributes for a specific
* nodeType
(e.g., nodeValue
for an Element or
* attributes
for a Comment), this returns null
.
* Note that the specialized interfaces may contain additional and more
* convenient mechanisms to get and set the relevant information.
*/
class CDOM_EXPORT DOM_Node {
public:
/** @name Constructors and assignment operators */
//@{
/**
* Default constructor for DOM_Node. The resulting object does not
* refer to an actual node; it will compare == to 0, and is similar
* to a null object reference variable in Java. It may subsequently be
* assigned to refer to an actual node. "Acutal Nodes" will always
* be of some derived type, such as Element or Attr.
*
*/
DOM_Node();
/**
* Copy constructor.
*
* @param other The object to be copied.
*/
DOM_Node(const DOM_Node &other);
/**
* Assignment operator.
*
* @param other The source to be assigned.
*/
DOM_Node & operator = (const DOM_Node &other);
/**
* Assignment operator. This overloaded variant is provided for
* the sole purpose of setting a DOM_Node reference variable to
* zero. Nulling out a reference variable in this way will decrement
* the reference count on the underlying Node object that the variable
* formerly referenced. This effect is normally obtained when reference
* variable goes out of scope, but zeroing them can be useful for
* global instances, or for local instances that will remain in scope
* for an extended time, when the storage belonging to the underlying
* node needs to be reclaimed.
*
* @param val Only a value of 0, or null, is allowed.
*/
DOM_Node & operator = (const DOM_NullPtr *val);
//@}
/** @name Destructor. */
//@{
/**
* Destructor for DOM_Node. The object being destroyed is the reference
* object, not the underlying node itself.
*
*/
~DOM_Node();
//@}
/** @name Equality and Inequality operators. */
//@{
/**
* The equality operator. This compares to references to nodes, and
* returns true if they both refer to the same underlying node. It
* is exactly analogous to Java's operator == on object reference
* variables. This operator can not be used to compare the values
* of two different nodes in the document tree.
*
* @param other The object reference with which this
object is compared
* @returns True if both DOM_Node
s refer to the same
* actual node, or are both null; return false otherwise.
*/
bool operator == (const DOM_Node & other)const;
/**
* Compare with a pointer. Intended only to allow a convenient
* comparison with null.
*
*/
bool operator == (const DOM_NullPtr *other) const;
/**
* The inequality operator. See operator ==.
*
*/
bool operator != (const DOM_Node & other) const;
/**
* Compare with a pointer. Intended only to allow a convenient
* comparison with null.
*
*/
bool operator != (const DOM_NullPtr * other) const;
enum NodeType {
ELEMENT_NODE = 1,
ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2,
TEXT_NODE = 3,
CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4,
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5,
ENTITY_NODE = 6,
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7,
COMMENT_NODE = 8,
DOCUMENT_NODE = 9,
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10,
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11,
NOTATION_NODE = 12,
XML_DECL_NODE = 13
};
//@}
/** @name Get functions. */
//@{
/**
* The name of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
*/
DOMString getNodeName() const;
/**
* Gets the value of this node, depending on its type.
*
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
* @exception DOMException
* DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than
* fit in a DOMString
variable on the implementation
* platform.
*/
DOMString getNodeValue() const;
/**
* An enum value representing the type of the underlying object.
*/
short getNodeType() const;
/**
* Gets the parent of this node.
*
* All nodes, except Document
,
* DocumentFragment
, and Attr
may have a parent.
* However, if a node has just been created and not yet added to the tree,
* or if it has been removed from the tree, a null
DOM_Node
* is returned.
*/
DOM_Node getParentNode() const;
/**
* Gets a NodeList
that contains all children of this node.
*
* If there
* are no children, this is a NodeList
containing no nodes.
* The content of the returned NodeList
is "live" in the sense
* that, for instance, changes to the children of the node object that
* it was created from are immediately reflected in the nodes returned by
* the NodeList
accessors; it is not a static snapshot of the
* content of the node. This is true for every NodeList
,
* including the ones returned by the getElementsByTagName
* method.
*/
DOM_NodeList getChildNodes() const;
/**
* Gets the first child of this node.
*
* If there is no such node, this returns null
.
*/
DOM_Node getFirstChild() const;
/**
* Gets the last child of this node.
*
* If there is no such node, this returns null
.
*/
DOM_Node getLastChild() const;
/**
* Gets the node immediately preceding this node.
*
* If there is no such node, this returns null
.
*/
DOM_Node getPreviousSibling() const;
/**
* Gets the node immediately following this node.
*
* If there is no such node, this returns null
.
*/
DOM_Node getNextSibling() const;
/**
* Gets a NamedNodeMap
containing the attributes of this node (if it
* is an Element
) or null
otherwise.
*/
DOM_NamedNodeMap getAttributes() const;
/**
* Gets the DOM_Document
object associated with this node.
*
* This is also
* the DOM_Document
object used to create new nodes. When this
* node is a DOM_Document
or a DOM_DocumentType
* which is not used with any DOM_Document
yet, this is
* null
.
*
*/
DOM_Document getOwnerDocument() const;
/**
* Return the user data pointer.
*
* User data allows application programs
* to attach extra data to DOM nodes, and can be set using the
* function DOM_Node::setUserData(p)
.
* @return The user data pointer.
*/
void *getUserData() const;
//@}
/** @name Cloning function. */
//@{
/**
* Returns a duplicate of this node.
*
* This function serves as a generic copy constructor for nodes.
*
* The duplicate node has no parent (
* parentNode
returns null
.).
*
Cloning an Element
copies all attributes and their
* values, including those generated by the XML processor to represent
* defaulted attributes, but this method does not copy any text it contains
* unless it is a deep clone, since the text is contained in a child
* Text
node. Cloning any other type of node simply returns a
* copy of this node.
* @param deep If true
, recursively clone the subtree under the
* specified node; if false
, clone only the node itself (and
* its attributes, if it is an Element
).
* @return The duplicate node.
*/
DOM_Node cloneNode(bool deep) const;
//@}
/** @name Functions to modify the DOM Node. */
//@{
/**
* Inserts the node newChild
before the existing child node
* refChild
.
*
* If refChild
is null
,
* insert newChild
at the end of the list of children.
*
If newChild
is a DocumentFragment
object,
* all of its children are inserted, in the same order, before
* refChild
. If the newChild
is already in the
* tree, it is first removed. Note that a DOM_Node
that
* has never been assigned to refer to an actual node is == null.
* @param newChild The node to insert.
* @param refChild The reference node, i.e., the node before which the new
* node must be inserted.
* @return The node being inserted.
* @exception DOMException
* HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
* allow children of the type of the newChild
node, or if
* the node to insert is one of this node's ancestors.
*
WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newChild
was created
* from a different document than the one that created this node.
*
NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node or the node being
* inserted is readonly.
*
NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if refChild
is not a child of
* this node.
*/
DOM_Node insertBefore(const DOM_Node &newChild,
const DOM_Node &refChild);
/**
* Replaces the child node oldChild
with newChild
* in the list of children, and returns the oldChild
node.
*
* If newChild
is a DOM_DocumentFragment
object,
* oldChild
is replaced by all of the DOM_DocumentFragment
* children, which are inserted in the same order.
*
* If the newChild
is already in the tree, it is first removed.
* @param newChild The new node to put in the child list.
* @param oldChild The node being replaced in the list.
* @return The node replaced.
* @exception DOMException
* HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
* allow children of the type of the newChild
node, or it
* the node to put in is one of this node's ancestors.
*
WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newChild
was created
* from a different document than the one that created this node.
*
NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node or the new node is readonly.
*
NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if oldChild
is not a child of
* this node.
*/
DOM_Node replaceChild(const DOM_Node &newChild,
const DOM_Node &oldChild);
/**
* Removes the child node indicated by oldChild
from the list
* of children, and returns it.
*
* @param oldChild The node being removed.
* @return The node removed.
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.
*
NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if oldChild
is not a child of
* this node.
*/
DOM_Node removeChild(const DOM_Node &oldChild);
/**
* Adds the node newChild
to the end of the list of children of
* this node.
*
* If the newChild
is already in the tree, it is
* first removed.
* @param newChild The node to add.If it is a DocumentFragment
* object, the entire contents of the document fragment are moved into
* the child list of this node
* @return The node added.
* @exception DOMException
* HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
* allow children of the type of the newChild
node, or if
* the node to append is one of this node's ancestors.
*
WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newChild
was created
* from a different document than the one that created this node.
*
NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node or the node being
* appended is readonly.
*/
DOM_Node appendChild(const DOM_Node &newChild);
//@}
/** @name Query functions. */
//@{
/**
* This is a convenience method to allow easy determination of whether a
* node has any children.
*
* @return true
if the node has any children,
* false
if the node has no children.
*/
bool hasChildNodes() const;
/**
* Test whether this node is null.
*
* This C++ class, DOM_Node
* functions much like an object reference to an underlying Node, and
* this function tests for that reference being null. Several DOM
* APIs,
Node.getNextSibling()
for example, can return null, and
* this function is used to test for that condition.
*
* DOM_Node::getUserData(p)
.
* DOM_Text
* nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this DOM_Node
,
* including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g.,
* tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity
* references) separates DOM_Text
* nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent DOM_Text
* nodes nor empty DOM_Text
* nodes. This can be used to ensure that the DOM view of a document is the
* same as if it were saved and re-loaded, and is useful when operations
* (such as XPointer lookups) that depend on a particular document tree
* structure are to be used.
* DOM_CDATASections
,
* the normalize operation alone may not be sufficient, since XPointers do
* not differentiate between DOM_Text
* nodes and DOM_CDATASection
* nodes.hasFeature
on
* DOM_DOMImplementation
.
* @param version This is the version number of the feature to test. In
* Level 2, version 1, this is the string "2.0". If the version is not
* specified, supporting any version of the feature will cause the
* method to return true
.
* @return Returns true
if the specified feature is supported
* on this node, false
otherwise.
*/
bool isSupported(const DOMString &feature,
const DOMString &version) const;
/**
* Get the namespace URI of
* this node, or null
if it is unspecified.
* ELEMENT_NODE
and
* ATTRIBUTE_NODE
and nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method,
* such as createElement
from the DOM_Document
* interface, this is always null
.
*
*/
DOMString getNamespaceURI() const;
/**
* Get the namespace prefix
* of this node, or null
if it is unspecified.
*
*/
DOMString getPrefix() const;
/**
* Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node.
* createElement
from the DOM_Document
interface,
* it is null.
*
*/
DOMString getLocalName() const;
/**
* Set the namespace prefix of this node.
* nodeName
attribute, which holds the qualified
* name, as well as the tagName
and name
* attributes of the DOM_Element
and DOM_Attr
* interfaces, when applicable.
* namespaceURI
and localName
do not change.
*
* @param prefix The prefix of this node.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified prefix contains
* an illegal character.
*
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.
*
* NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the specified prefix
is
* malformed, if the namespaceURI
of this node is
* null
, if the specified prefix is "xml" and the
* namespaceURI
of this node is different from
* "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", if this node is an attribute
* and the specified prefix is "xmlns" and the
* namespaceURI
of this node is different from
* "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/", or if this node is an attribute and
* the qualifiedName
of this node is "xmlns".
*/
void setPrefix(const DOMString &prefix);
/**
* Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes.
* @return true
if this node has any attributes,
* false
otherwise.
*/
bool hasAttributes() const;
//@}
protected:
NodeImpl *fImpl;
DOM_Node(NodeImpl *);
friend class DOM_Document;
friend class DocumentImpl;
friend class TreeWalkerImpl;
friend class NodeIteratorImpl;
friend class DOM_NamedNodeMap;
friend class DOM_NodeList;
friend class DOMParser;
friend class DOM_Entity;
friend class RangeImpl;
friend class CharacterDataImpl;
friend class XUtil;
};
XERCES_CPP_NAMESPACE_END
#endif