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CDATA Class Reference

List of all members.

Public Methods
	CDATA (String str)
String	getText ()
String	getTextTrim ()
String	getTextNormalize ()
CDATA	setText (String str)
void	append (String str)
void	append (CDATA cdata)
Element	getParent ()
Document	getDocument ()
CDATA	detach ()
String	toString ()
final int	hashCode ()
Object	clone ()
final boolean	equals (Object ob)
Protected Methods
	CDATA ()
CDATA	setParent (Element parent)
Protected Attributes
String	value
Element	parent

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Detailed Description

CDATA represents character-based content within an XML document represented by JDOM. It is intended to provide a modular, perantable method of representing CDATA. Additionally, CDATA makes no guarantees about the underlying textual representation of character data, but does expose that data as a Java String.

Author:

Dan Schaffer , Brett McLaughlin , Jason Hunter , Bradley S. Huffman

Version:

Revision:

1.18

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Date:

2002/01/26 07:57:37

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

CDATA::CDATA (    )  [inline, protected]

This is the protected, no-args constructor standard in all JDOM classes. It allows subclassers to get a raw instance with no initialization.

CDATA::CDATA (  String    str )  [inline]

This constructor creates a new CDATA node, with the supplied string value as it's character content. Parameters: str  the node's character content.

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Member Function Documentation

void CDATA::append (  CDATA    cdata )  [inline]

This will append the content of another CDATA node to this node. Parameters: cdata  CDATA node to append.

void CDATA::append (  String    str )  [inline]

This will append character content to whatever content already exists within this CDATA node. Parameters: str  character content to append.

Object CDATA::clone (    )  [inline]

This will return a clone of this CDATA node, with the same character content, but no parent. Returns: CDATA - cloned node.

CDATA CDATA::detach (    )  [inline]

Detaches the CDATA from its parent, or does nothing if the CDATA has no parent. Returns: CDATA - this CDATA modified.

final boolean CDATA::equals (  Object    ob )  [inline]

This tests for equality of this CDATA to the supplied Object, explicitly using the == operator. Parameters: ob  Object to compare to Returns: whether the CDATA nodes are equal

Document CDATA::getDocument (    )  [inline]

This retrieves the owning Document for this CDATA, or null if not a currently a member of a Document. Returns: Document owning this CDATA, or null.

Element CDATA::getParent (    )  [inline]

This will return the parent of this CDATA node, which is always a JDOM Element. Returns: Element - this node's parent.

String CDATA::getText (    )  [inline]

This returns the value of this CDATA node as a Java String. Returns: String - character content of this node.

String CDATA::getTextNormalize (    )  [inline]

This returns the textual content with all surrounding whitespace removed and internal whitespace normalized to a single space. If only whitespace exists, the empty string is returned. Returns: normalized cdata content or empty string

String CDATA::getTextTrim (    )  [inline]

This returns the textual content with all surrounding whitespace removed. If only whitespace exists, the empty string is returned. Returns: trimmed cdata content or empty string

final int CDATA::hashCode (    )  [inline]

This will generate a hash code for this node. Returns: int - hash code for this node.

CDATA CDATA::setParent (  Element    parent )  [inline, protected]

This will set the parent of the CDATA node to the supplied Element. This method is intentionally left as protected so that only JDOM internals use it. If you need an instance of this CDATA node with a new parent, you should get a copy of this node with clone and set it on the desired (new) parent Element. Parameters: parent  parent for this node.

CDATA CDATA::setText (  String    str )  [inline]

This will set the value of this CDATA node. Parameters: str  value for node's content.

String CDATA::toString (    )  [inline]

This returns a String representation of the CDATA node, suitable for debugging. If the XML representation of the CDATA node is desired, either getText or (CDATA, Writer) should be used. Returns: String - information about this node.

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Member Data Documentation

Element CDATA::parent [protected]

This CDATA node's parent.

String CDATA::value [protected]

The actual character content

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• CDATA.java

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