IlXmlElementI Class Reference

Interface for XML elements. More...

#include <ilog/xml.h>

Inheritance diagram for IlXmlElementI:

Public Member Functions
virtual	~IlXmlElementI ()
	Destructor. More...
virtual void	addAttribute (IlXmlAttributeI *attribute)
	Adds an attribute to this element. More...
virtual void	addChild (IlXmlNodeI *node)
	Adds a child node to this element. More...
virtual IlXmlAttributeI *	createAttribute (char *name, char *value) const
	Creates an attribute for this element. More...
virtual IlXmlNodeIteratorI *	createAttributesIterator () const
	Creates an iterator for the attributes of this element. More...
virtual IlXmlElementI *	createChildElement (char *tag) const
	Creates a child element. More...
virtual IlXmlNodeIteratorI *	createChildrenIterator () const
	Creates an iterator for the child nodes of this element. More...
virtual IlBoolean	doesPreserveWhiteSpaces () const
	Indicates if non-significant white spaces are kept. More...
virtual IlXmlAttributeI *	getAttribute (const char *name) const
	Returns the attribute with the specified name. More...
const char *	getAttributeValue (const char *name) const
	Returns the value of an attribute. More...
virtual const char *	getTag () const =0
	Retrieves the tag name of this element. More...
virtual const char *	getText () const
	Retrieves the content of the first Text node child. More...
virtual Type	getType () const
	Retrieves the type of this element. More...
virtual void	preserveWhiteSpaces (IlBoolean preserve)
	Forces non-significant white spaces to be kept or dropped. More...
virtual void	setTag (const char *tag)
	Sets the tag name of this element. More...
virtual void	storeAttribute (IlXmlDocumentI *document, char *name, char *value)
	Stores a new attribute that was just read. More...
virtual void	storeTag (char *tag)
	Sets the tag name of this element. More...
virtual ostream &	write (ostream &os) const
	Writes the XML representation of this element. More...
virtual void	writeAttributes (ostream &os) const
	Writes the XML representation of the attributes of this element. More...
virtual IlBoolean	writeChildren (ostream &os) const
	Writes the XML representation of the children of this element. More...

Additional Inherited Members
Public Types inherited from IlXmlNodeI
enum	Type {   Attribute, Element, Text, Comment,   CData, PI, CharRef, EntityRef }
	The different types of XML nodes. More...

Detailed Description

Interface for XML elements.

Library: ilog

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

virtual IlXmlElementI::~IlXmlElementI ( )

virtual

Destructor.

The destructor must destroy all the attributes and the child nodes of this element. The default implementation does nothing.

Member Function Documentation

virtual void IlXmlElementI::addAttribute ( IlXmlAttributeI *  attribute )

virtual

Adds an attribute to this element.

Parameters

attribute

The attribute to be added to this element. The node is responsible for the destruction of this attribute when this element is destroyed. The default implementation deletes this attribute.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual void IlXmlElementI::addChild ( IlXmlNodeI *  node )

virtual

Adds a child node to this element.

Parameters

node	The new node that is added to this element. The default implementation deletes this node.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual IlXmlAttributeI* IlXmlElementI::createAttribute ( char *  name, char *  value  ) const

virtual

Creates an attribute for this element.

Parameters

name	The name of the new attribute. The string is stored as is, that is, not copied. It is deleted using the delete operator.
value	The value for the new attribute. The string is stored as is, that is, not copied. It is deleted using the delete operator.

Returns

A pointer to the created attribute. The default implementation returns 0.

virtual IlXmlNodeIteratorI* IlXmlElementI::createAttributesIterator ( ) const

virtual

Creates an iterator for the attributes of this element.

Returns

A new iterator for the attributes of this element. The default implementation returns 0.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual IlXmlElementI* IlXmlElementI::createChildElement ( char *  tag ) const

virtual

Creates a child element.

This member function is called by the XML parser when a new element, child of this element, is read.
If no element is created (0 is returned), then the method IlvXmlDocumentI::createElement is called in order to create the child element of this node. The default implementation returns 0.

Parameters

tag	The tag name of this new element.

Returns

The new element that was created as the child of the current element object, or 0 if this creation is to be delegated to the document.

virtual IlXmlNodeIteratorI* IlXmlElementI::createChildrenIterator ( ) const

virtual

Creates an iterator for the child nodes of this element.

Returns

A new iterator for the child nodes of this element. The default implementation returns 0.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual IlBoolean IlXmlElementI::doesPreserveWhiteSpaces ( ) const

virtual

Indicates if non-significant white spaces are kept.

Returns

IlTrue if the non-significant white spaces (the ones at the beginning or at the end of the element content) are kept in the element, IlFalse otherwise.

See Also

preserveWhiteSpaces.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual IlXmlAttributeI* IlXmlElementI::getAttribute ( const char *  name ) const

virtual

Returns the attribute with the specified name.

Parameters

name	The name of the attribute that is requested.

Returns

The attribute of this element that has a name similar to (in the sense that strcmp defines) name, or 0 if no attribute has this name. The default implementation scans all the attributes that are accessed by the attributes iterator to find a match.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

const char* IlXmlElementI::getAttributeValue

(

const char *

name

)

const

Returns the value of an attribute.

Parameters

name	The name of the attribute for which the value is requested.

Returns

The value of the attribute that has a name similar to (in the sense that strcmp defines) name, or 0 if no attribute has this name. The default implementation scans all the attributes that are accessed by the attributes iterator to find a match, then returns its value.

virtual const char* IlXmlElementI::getTag ( ) const

pure virtual

Retrieves the tag name of this element.

Returns

The tag name of this element. The returned string must not be deleted or modified.

Implemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual const char* IlXmlElementI::getText ( ) const

virtual

Retrieves the content of the first Text node child.

Returns

A string that contains the content of the first Text element of this element, or 0 if there are not any. The user must not modify or delete the returned string.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual Type IlXmlElementI::getType ( ) const

virtual

Retrieves the type of this element.

Returns

IlXmlNodeI::Element.

Implements IlXmlNodeI.

virtual void IlXmlElementI::preserveWhiteSpaces ( IlBoolean  preserve )

virtual

Forces non-significant white spaces to be kept or dropped.

Parameters

If	set to IlTrue, even non-significant white spaces will be kept in the element content.

See Also

doesPreserveWhiteSpaces.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual void IlXmlElementI::setTag ( const char *  tag )

virtual

Sets the tag name of this element.

Parameters

tag	The new tag name of this element. The default implementation calls storeTag with a copy of the string tag.

virtual void IlXmlElementI::storeAttribute ( IlXmlDocumentI *  document, char *  name, char *  value  )

virtual

Stores a new attribute that was just read.

The default implementation calls addAttribute with the attribute that is returned by a call to createAttribute.

Parameters

document	The document instance that is used to create the attribute.
name	The name of the attribute. You are responsible for destroying this string if you do not store it.
value	The value of the attribute. You are responsible for destroying this string if you do not store it.

virtual void IlXmlElementI::storeTag ( char *  tag )

virtual

Sets the tag name of this element.

Parameters

tag	The new tag name of this element. The string is not copied before it is stored, but it is deleted (using delete []) by the destructor. The default implementation deletes this string and does nothing else with it.

Reimplemented in IlXmlElement.

virtual ostream& IlXmlElementI::write ( ostream &  os ) const

virtual

Writes the XML representation of this element.

The default implementation writes the number of spaces indicated by getIndent(), then an open square bracket (<) and the tag name.
writeAttributes is called to save the attributes description.
writeChildren is called to save the description of the potential children of this element. If writeChildren returns IlTrue, it indicates that some children were saved, and write writes the closing tag to the output stream (that is, the tag name between a '</'-'>' sequence. If writeChildren returns IlFalse
it indicates that no child was saved, and write closes the tag by outputting '/>'.

Parameters

os	The output stream to write to.

Returns

The output stream which is written to.

Implements IlXmlNodeI.

virtual void IlXmlElementI::writeAttributes ( ostream &  os ) const

virtual

Writes the XML representation of the attributes of this element.

For each attribute of this element, the default implementation prints a space character and calls write on that attribute.

Parameters

os	The output stream to write to.

Returns

The output stream which is written to.

virtual IlBoolean IlXmlElementI::writeChildren ( ostream &  os ) const

virtual

Writes the XML representation of the children of this element.

For each child of this element, the default implementation prints a space character and calls write on that node.

Parameters

os	The output stream to write to.

Returns

The output stream which is written to.