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DTMFilter.javaAPI DocJava SE 5 API7231Fri Aug 26 14:56:00 BST 2005com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.dtm

DTMFilter

public interface DTMFilter
Simple filter for doing node tests. Note the semantics of this are somewhat different that the DOM's NodeFilter.

Fields Summary
public static final int
SHOW_ALL
Show all Nodes.
public static final int
SHOW_ELEMENT
Show Element nodes.
public static final int
SHOW_ATTRIBUTE
Show Attr nodes. This is meaningful only when creating an iterator or tree-walker with an attribute node as its root; in this case, it means that the attribute node will appear in the first position of the iteration or traversal. Since attributes are never children of other nodes, they do not appear when traversing over the main document tree.
public static final int
SHOW_TEXT
Show Text nodes.
public static final int
SHOW_CDATA_SECTION
Show CDATASection nodes.
public static final int
SHOW_ENTITY_REFERENCE
Show EntityReference nodes. Note that if Entity References have been fully expanded while the tree was being constructed, these nodes will not appear and this mask has no effect.
public static final int
SHOW_ENTITY
Show Entity nodes. This is meaningful only when creating an iterator or tree-walker with an Entity node as its root; in this case, it means that the Entity node will appear in the first position of the traversal. Since entities are not part of the document tree, they do not appear when traversing over the main document tree.
public static final int
SHOW_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION
Show ProcessingInstruction nodes.
public static final int
SHOW_COMMENT
Show Comment nodes.
public static final int
SHOW_DOCUMENT
Show Document nodes. (Of course, as with Attributes and such, this is meaningful only when the iteration root is the Document itself, since Document has no parent.)
public static final int
SHOW_DOCUMENT_TYPE
Show DocumentType nodes.
public static final int
SHOW_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT
Show DocumentFragment nodes. (Of course, as with Attributes and such, this is meaningful only when the iteration root is the Document itself, since DocumentFragment has no parent.)
public static final int
SHOW_NOTATION
Show Notation nodes. This is meaningful only when creating an iterator or tree-walker with a Notation node as its root; in this case, it means that the Notation node will appear in the first position of the traversal. Since notations are not part of the document tree, they do not appear when traversing over the main document tree.
public static final int
SHOW_NAMESPACE
This bit instructs the iterator to show namespace nodes, which are modeled by DTM but not by the DOM. Make sure this does not conflict with {@link org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter}.

%REVIEW% Might be safer to start from higher bits and work down, to leave room for the DOM to expand its set of constants... Or, possibly, to create a DTM-specific field for these additional bits.

public static final int
SHOW_BYFUNCTION
Special bit for filters implementing match patterns starting with a function. Make sure this does not conflict with {@link org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter}.

%REVIEW% Might be safer to start from higher bits and work down, to leave room for the DOM to expand its set of constants... Or, possibly, to create a DTM-specific field for these additional bits.

Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
public shortacceptNode(int nodeHandle, int whatToShow)
Test whether a specified node is visible in the logical view of a DTMIterator. Normally, this function will be called by the implementation of DTMIterator; it is not normally called directly from user code.

param
nodeHandle int Handle of the node.
param
whatToShow one of SHOW_XXX values.
return
one of FILTER_ACCEPT, FILTER_REJECT, or FILTER_SKIP.

public shortacceptNode(int nodeHandle, int whatToShow, int expandedName)
Test whether a specified node is visible in the logical view of a DTMIterator. Normally, this function will be called by the implementation of DTMIterator; it is not normally called directly from user code.

TODO: Should this be setNameMatch(expandedName) followed by accept()? Or will we really be testing a different name at every invocation?

%REVIEW% Under what circumstances will this be used? The cases I've considered are just as easy and just about as efficient if the name test is performed in the DTMIterator... -- Joe

%REVIEW% Should that 0xFFFF have a mnemonic assigned to it? Also: This representation is assuming the expanded name is indeed split into high/low 16-bit halfwords. If we ever change the balance between namespace and localname bits (eg because we decide there are many more localnames than namespaces, which is fairly likely), this is going to break. It might be safer to encapsulate the details with a makeExpandedName method and make that responsible for setting up the wildcard version as well.

param
nodeHandle int Handle of the node.
param
whatToShow one of SHOW_XXX values.
param
expandedName a value defining the exanded name as defined in the DTM interface. Wild cards will be defined by 0xFFFF in the namespace and/or localname portion of the expandedName.
return
one of FILTER_ACCEPT, FILTER_REJECT, or FILTER_SKIP.