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EntityReferenceImpl.javaAPI DocJava SE 5 API15273Fri Aug 26 14:55:44 BST 2005com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom

EntityReferenceImpl

public class EntityReferenceImpl extends ParentNode implements EntityReference
EntityReference models the XML &entityname; syntax, when used for entities defined by the DOM. Entities hardcoded into XML, such as character entities, should instead have been translated into text by the code which generated the DOM tree.

An XML processor has the alternative of fully expanding Entities into the normal document tree. If it does so, no EntityReference nodes will appear.

Similarly, non-validating XML processors are not required to read or process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in external parameter entities. Hence, some applications may not make the replacement value available for Parsed Entities of these types.

EntityReference behaves as a read-only node, and the children of the EntityReference (which reflect those of the Entity, and should also be read-only) give its replacement value, if any. They are supposed to automagically stay in synch if the DocumentType is updated with new values for the Entity.

The defined behavior makes efficient storage difficult for the DOM implementor. We can't just look aside to the Entity's definition in the DocumentType since those nodes have the wrong parent (unless we can come up with a clever "imaginary parent" mechanism). We must at least appear to clone those children... which raises the issue of keeping the reference synchronized with its parent. This leads me back to the "cached image of centrally defined data" solution, much as I dislike it.

For now I have decided, since REC-DOM-Level-1-19980818 doesn't cover this in much detail, that synchronization doesn't have to be considered while the user is deep in the tree. That is, if you're looking within one of the EntityReferennce's children and the Entity changes, you won't be informed; instead, you will continue to access the same object -- which may or may not still be part of the tree. This is the same behavior that obtains elsewhere in the DOM if the subtree you're looking at is deleted from its parent, so it's acceptable here. (If it really bothers folks, we could set things up so deleted subtrees are walked and marked invalid, but that's not part of the DOM's defined behavior.)

As a result, only the EntityReference itself has to be aware of changes in the Entity. And it can take advantage of the same structure-change-monitoring code I implemented to support DeepNodeList.

author
Arnaud Le Hors, IBM
author
Joe Kesselman, IBM
author
Andy Clark, IBM
author
Ralf Pfeiffer, IBM
version
$Id: EntityReferenceImpl.java,v 1.23 2003/05/08 19:52:40 elena Exp $
since
PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.

Fields Summary
static final long
serialVersionUID
Serialization version.
protected String
name
Name of Entity referenced
protected String
baseURI
Base URI
Constructors Summary
public EntityReferenceImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, String name)
Factory constructor.

    

       
    //protected int entityChanges = -1;	

       
    //protected boolean fEnableSynchronize = false;

    //
    // Constructors
    //

       
         
        super(ownerDoc);
        this.name = name;
        isReadOnly(true);
        needsSyncChildren(true);
Methods Summary
public org.w3c.dom.NodecloneNode(boolean deep)
Clone node.

        EntityReferenceImpl er = (EntityReferenceImpl)super.cloneNode(deep);
        er.setReadOnly(true, deep);
        return er;
public java.lang.StringgetBaseURI()
DOM Level 3 WD - Experimental. Retrieve baseURI

        if (needsSyncData()) {
            synchronizeData();
        }
        if (baseURI == null) {
            DocumentType doctype;
            NamedNodeMap entities;
            EntityImpl entDef;
            if (null != (doctype = getOwnerDocument().getDoctype()) && 
                null != (entities = doctype.getEntities())) {

                entDef = (EntityImpl)entities.getNamedItem(getNodeName());
                if (entDef !=null) {
                    return entDef.getBaseURI();
                }
            }
        }
        return baseURI;
protected java.lang.StringgetEntityRefValue()
NON-DOM: compute string representation of the entity reference. This method is used to retrieve a string value for an attribute node that has child nodes.

return
String representing a value of this entity ref. or null if any node other than EntityReference, Text is encountered during computation

        if (needsSyncChildren()){
            synchronizeChildren();
        }
       
        String value = "";
        if (firstChild != null){
          if (firstChild.getNodeType() == Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE){
              value = ((EntityReferenceImpl)firstChild).getEntityRefValue();
          }
          else if (firstChild.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE){
            value = firstChild.getNodeValue();
          }
          else {
             // invalid to have other types of nodes in attr value
            return null;
          }
          
          if (firstChild.nextSibling == null){
            return value;
          }
          else {
            StringBuffer buff = new StringBuffer(value);
            ChildNode next = firstChild.nextSibling;
            while (next != null){   
            
                if (next.getNodeType() == Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE){
                   value = ((EntityReferenceImpl)next).getEntityRefValue();
                }
                else if (next.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE){
                  value = next.getNodeValue();
                }
                else {
                    // invalid to have other types of nodes in attr value
                    return null;
                }
                buff.append(value);
                next = next.nextSibling;

            }
            return buff.toString();  
          }   
        } 
        return "";
public java.lang.StringgetNodeName()
Returns the name of the entity referenced

        if (needsSyncData()) {
            synchronizeData();
        }
        return name;
public shortgetNodeType()
A short integer indicating what type of node this is. The named constants for this value are defined in the org.w3c.dom.Node interface.

        return Node.ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE;
public voidsetBaseURI(java.lang.String uri)
NON-DOM: set base uri

        if (needsSyncData()) {
            synchronizeData();
        }
        baseURI = uri;
public voidsetReadOnly(boolean readOnly, boolean deep)
NON-DOM: sets the node and its children value.

Note: make sure that entity reference and its kids could be set readonly.


        if (needsSyncData()) {
            synchronizeData();
        }
        if (deep) {

            if (needsSyncChildren()) {
                synchronizeChildren();
            }
            // Recursively set kids
            for (ChildNode mykid = firstChild;
                 mykid != null;
                 mykid = mykid.nextSibling) {
                     
                mykid.setReadOnly(readOnly,true);
                
            }
        }
        isReadOnly(readOnly);
protected voidsynchronizeChildren()
EntityReference's children are a reflection of those defined in the named Entity. This method creates them if they haven't been created yet. This doesn't support editing the Entity though, since this only called once for all.

        // no need to synchronize again
        needsSyncChildren(false);

        DocumentType doctype;
        NamedNodeMap entities;
        EntityImpl entDef;
        if (null != (doctype = getOwnerDocument().getDoctype()) && 
            null != (entities = doctype.getEntities())) {

            entDef = (EntityImpl)entities.getNamedItem(getNodeName());

            // No Entity by this name, stop here.
            if (entDef == null)
                return;

            // If entity's definition exists, clone its kids
            isReadOnly(false);
            for (Node defkid = entDef.getFirstChild();
                defkid != null;
                defkid = defkid.getNextSibling()) {
                Node newkid = defkid.cloneNode(true);
                insertBefore(newkid, null);
            }
            setReadOnly(true, true);
        }