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 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 IDOM_Node {
protected:
/** @name Constructors and assignment operators */
//@{
/**
* Default constructor for IDOM_Node. Protected, because
* IDOM_Node is an abstract base class.
*
*/
IDOM_Node() {};
/**
* Copy constructor.
*
* @param other The object to be copied.
*/
IDOM_Node(const IDOM_Node &other) {};
/**
* Assignment operator.
*
* @param other The source to be assigned.
*/
IDOM_Node & operator = (const IDOM_Node &other) {return *this;};
public:
//@}
/** @name Destructor. */
//@{
/**
* Destructor for IDOM_Node.
*
*/
virtual ~IDOM_Node() {};
//@}
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.
*/
virtual const XMLCh * getNodeName() const = 0;
/**
* Gets the value of this node, depending on its type.
*
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
*/
virtual const XMLCh * getNodeValue() const = 0;
/**
* An enum value representing the type of the underlying object.
*/
virtual short getNodeType() const = 0;
/**
* 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 IDOM_Node
* is returned.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *getParentNode() const = 0;
/**
* 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.
*/
virtual IDOM_NodeList *getChildNodes() const = 0;
/**
* Gets the first child of this node.
*
* If there is no such node, this returns null.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *getFirstChild() const = 0;
/**
* Gets the last child of this node.
*
* If there is no such node, this returns null.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *getLastChild() const = 0;
/**
* Gets the node immediately preceding this node.
*
* If there is no such node, this returns null.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *getPreviousSibling() const = 0;
/**
* Gets the node immediately following this node.
*
* If there is no such node, this returns null.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *getNextSibling() const = 0;
/**
* Gets a NamedNodeMap containing the attributes of this node (if it
* is an Element) or null otherwise.
*/
virtual IDOM_NamedNodeMap *getAttributes() const = 0;
/**
* Gets the IDOM_Document object associated with this node.
*
* This is also
* the IDOM_Document object used to create new nodes. When this
* node is a IDOM_Document or a IDOM_DocumentType
* which is not used with any IDOM_Document yet, this is
* null.
*
*/
virtual IDOM_Document *getOwnerDocument() const = 0;
//@}
/** @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.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node * cloneNode(bool deep) const = 0;
//@}
/** @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 IDOM_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.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *insertBefore(IDOM_Node *newChild,
IDOM_Node *refChild) = 0;
/**
* Replaces the child node oldChild with newChild
* in the list of children, and returns the oldChild node.
*
* If newChild is a IDOM_DocumentFragment object,
* oldChild is replaced by all of the IDOM_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.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *replaceChild(IDOM_Node *newChild,
IDOM_Node *oldChild) = 0;
/**
* 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.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *removeChild(IDOM_Node *oldChild) = 0;
/**
* 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.
*/
virtual IDOM_Node *appendChild(IDOM_Node *newChild) = 0;
//@}
/** @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.
*/
virtual bool hasChildNodes() const = 0;
//@}
/** @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.
*/
virtual void setNodeValue(const XMLCh *nodeValue) = 0;
//@}
/** @name Functions introduced in DOM Level 2. */
//@{
/**
* Puts all IDOM_Text
* nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this IDOM_Node,
* including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g.,
* tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity
* references) separates IDOM_Text
* nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent IDOM_Text
* nodes nor empty IDOM_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.
*
Note: In cases where the document contains IDOM_CDATASections,
* the normalize operation alone may not be sufficient, since XPointers do
* not differentiate between IDOM_Text
* nodes and IDOM_CDATASection
* nodes.
hasFeature on
* IDOM_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.
*/
virtual bool isSupported(const XMLCh *feature,
const XMLCh *version) const = 0;
/**
* Get the namespace URI of
* this node, or null if it is unspecified.
* * 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 ELEMENT_NODE and
* ATTRIBUTE_NODE and nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method,
* such as createElement from the IDOM_Document
* interface, this is always null.
*
*/
virtual const XMLCh * getNamespaceURI() const = 0;
/**
* Get the namespace prefix
* of this node, or null if it is unspecified.
*
*/
virtual const XMLCh * getPrefix() const = 0;
/**
* Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node.
*
* For nodes created with a DOM Level 1 method, such as
* createElement from the IDOM_Document interface,
* it is null.
*
*
*/
virtual const XMLCh * getLocalName() const = 0;
/**
* Set the namespace prefix of this node.
*
* Note that setting this attribute, when permitted, changes
* the nodeName attribute, which holds the qualified
* name, as well as the tagName and name
* attributes of the IDOM_Element and IDOM_Attr
* interfaces, when applicable.
*
* 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
* 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".
*/
virtual void setPrefix(const XMLCh * prefix) = 0;
/**
* Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes.
* @return true if this node has any attributes,
* false otherwise.
*/
virtual bool hasAttributes() const = 0;
//@}
};
#endif