xercesc::DOMElement Class Reference

By far the vast majority of objects (apart from text) that authors encounter when traversing a document are DOMElement nodes. More...

#include <DOMElement.hpp>

Inheritance diagram for xercesc::DOMElement:

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Public Member Functions
Functions introduced in DOM Level 1
virtual const XMLCh *	getTagName () const=0
	The name of the element.
virtual const XMLCh *	getAttribute (const XMLCh *name) const=0
	Retrieves an attribute value by name.
virtual DOMAttr *	getAttributeNode (const XMLCh *name) const=0
	Retrieves an DOMAttr node by name.
virtual DOMNodeList *	getElementsByTagName (const XMLCh *name) const=0
	Returns a DOMNodeList of all descendant elements with a given tag name, in the order in which they would be encountered in a preorder traversal of the DOMElement tree.
virtual void	setAttribute (const XMLCh *name, const XMLCh *value)=0
	Adds a new attribute.
virtual DOMAttr *	setAttributeNode (DOMAttr *newAttr)=0
	Adds a new attribute.
virtual DOMAttr *	removeAttributeNode (DOMAttr *oldAttr)=0
	Removes the specified attribute node.
virtual void	removeAttribute (const XMLCh *name)=0
	Removes an attribute by name.
Functions introduced in DOM Level 2.
virtual const XMLCh *	getAttributeNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *localName) const=0
	Retrieves an attribute value by local name and namespace URI.
virtual void	setAttributeNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *qualifiedName, const XMLCh *value)=0
	Adds a new attribute.
virtual void	removeAttributeNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *localName)=0
	Removes an attribute by local name and namespace URI.
virtual DOMAttr *	getAttributeNodeNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *localName) const=0
	Retrieves an DOMAttr node by local name and namespace URI.
virtual DOMAttr *	setAttributeNodeNS (DOMAttr *newAttr)=0
	Adds a new attribute.
virtual DOMNodeList *	getElementsByTagNameNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *localName) const=0
	Returns a DOMNodeList of all the DOMElements with a given local name and namespace URI in the order in which they would be encountered in a preorder traversal of the DOMDocument tree, starting from this node.
virtual bool	hasAttribute (const XMLCh *name) const=0
	Returns true when an attribute with a given name is specified on this element or has a default value, false otherwise.
virtual bool	hasAttributeNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *localName) const=0
	Returns true when an attribute with a given local name and namespace URI is specified on this element or has a default value, false otherwise.
Functions introduced in DOM Level 3
virtual void	setIdAttribute (const XMLCh *name)=0
	Declares the DOMAttr specified by name to be of type ID.
virtual void	setIdAttributeNS (const XMLCh *namespaceURI, const XMLCh *localName)=0
	Declares the DOMAttr specified by local name and namespace URI to be of type ID.
virtual void	setIdAttributeNode (const DOMAttr *idAttr)=0
	Declares the DOMAttr specified by node to be of type ID.
virtual const DOMTypeInfo *	getTypeInfo () const=0
	Returns the type information associated with this element.

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Detailed Description

By far the vast majority of objects (apart from text) that authors encounter when traversing a document are DOMElement nodes.

Assume the following XML document:<elementExample id="demo"> <subelement1/> <subelement2><subsubelement/></subelement2> </elementExample>

When represented using DOM, the top node is an DOMElement node for "elementExample", which contains two child DOMElement nodes, one for "subelement1" and one for "subelement2". "subelement1" contains no child nodes.

Elements may have attributes associated with them; since the DOMElement interface inherits from DOMNode, the generic DOMNode interface method getAttributes may be used to retrieve the set of all attributes for an element. There are methods on the DOMElement interface to retrieve either an DOMAttr object by name or an attribute value by name. In XML, where an attribute value may contain entity references, an DOMAttr object should be retrieved to examine the possibly fairly complex sub-tree representing the attribute value. On the other hand, in HTML, where all attributes have simple string values, methods to directly access an attribute value can safely be used as a convenience.

Since:

DOM Level 1

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

xercesc::DOMElement::DOMElement

(

)

[inline, protected]

xercesc::DOMElement::DOMElement

(

const DOMElement &

other

)

[inline, protected]

virtual xercesc::DOMElement::~DOMElement

(

)

[inline, virtual]

Destructor.

xercesc::DOMElement::DOMElement

(

)

[inline, protected]

xercesc::DOMElement::DOMElement

(

const DOMElement &

other

)

[inline, protected]

virtual xercesc::DOMElement::~DOMElement

(

)

[inline, virtual]

Destructor.

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Member Function Documentation

virtual const XMLCh* xercesc::DOMElement::getTagName

(

)

const [pure virtual]

The name of the element.

For example, in: <elementExample id="demo"> ... </elementExample> , tagName has the value "elementExample". Note that this is case-preserving in XML, as are all of the operations of the DOM.

Since:

DOM Level 1

virtual const XMLCh* xercesc::DOMElement::getAttribute

(

const XMLCh *

name

)

const [pure virtual]

Retrieves an attribute value by name.

Parameters:

name

The name of the attribute to retrieve.

Returns:

The DOMAttr value as a string, or the empty string if that attribute does not have a specified or default value.

Since:

DOM Level 1

virtual DOMAttr* xercesc::DOMElement::getAttributeNode

(

const XMLCh *

name

)

const [pure virtual]

Retrieves an DOMAttr node by name.

Parameters:

name

The name (nodeName) of the attribute to retrieve.

Returns:

The DOMAttr node with the specified name (nodeName) or null if there is no such attribute.

Since:

DOM Level 1

virtual DOMNodeList* xercesc::DOMElement::getElementsByTagName

(

const XMLCh *

name

)

const [pure virtual]

Returns a DOMNodeList of all descendant elements with a given tag name, in the order in which they would be encountered in a preorder traversal of the DOMElement tree.

Parameters:

name

The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*" matches all tags.

Returns:

A list of matching DOMElement nodes.

Since:

DOM Level 1

virtual void xercesc::DOMElement::setAttribute	(	const XMLCh *	name,
		const XMLCh *	value
	)			[pure virtual]

Adds a new attribute.

If an attribute with that name is already present in the element, its value is changed to be that of the value parameter. This value is a simple string, it is not parsed as it is being set. So any markup (such as syntax to be recognized as an entity reference) is treated as literal text, and needs to be appropriately escaped by the implementation when it is written out. In order to assign an attribute value that contains entity references, the user must create an DOMAttr node plus any DOMText and DOMEntityReference nodes, build the appropriate subtree, and use setAttributeNode to assign it as the value of an attribute.

Parameters:

	name	The name of the attribute to create or alter.
	value	Value to set in string form.

Exceptions:

DOMException

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an illegal character. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Since:

DOM Level 1

virtual DOMAttr* xercesc::DOMElement::setAttributeNode

(

DOMAttr *

newAttr

)

[pure virtual]

Adds a new attribute.

If an attribute with that name (nodeName) is already present in the element, it is replaced by the new one.

Parameters:

newAttr

The DOMAttr node to add to the attribute list.

Returns:

If the newAttr attribute replaces an existing attribute, the replaced DOMAttr node is returned, otherwise null is returned.

Exceptions:

DOMException

WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newAttr was created from a different document than the one that created the element. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if newAttr is already an attribute of another DOMElement object. The DOM user must explicitly clone DOMAttr nodes to re-use them in other elements.

Since:

DOM Level 1

virtual DOMAttr* xercesc::DOMElement::removeAttributeNode

(

DOMAttr *

oldAttr

)

[pure virtual]

Removes the specified attribute node.

If the removed DOMAttr has a default value it is immediately replaced. The replacing attribute has the same namespace URI and local name, as well as the original prefix, when applicable.

Parameters:

oldAttr

The DOMAttr node to remove from the attribute list.

Returns:

The DOMAttr node that was removed.

Exceptions:

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if oldAttr is not an attribute of the element.

Since:

DOM Level 1

virtual void xercesc::DOMElement::removeAttribute

(

const XMLCh *

name

)

[pure virtual]

Removes an attribute by name.

If the removed attribute is known to have a default value, an attribute immediately appears containing the default value as well as the corresponding namespace URI, local name, and prefix when applicable.
To remove an attribute by local name and namespace URI, use the removeAttributeNS method.

Parameters:

name

The name of the attribute to remove.

Exceptions:

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Since:

DOM Level 1

virtual const XMLCh* xercesc::DOMElement::getAttributeNS	(	const XMLCh *	namespaceURI,
		const XMLCh *	localName
	)			const [pure virtual]

Retrieves an attribute value by local name and namespace URI.

Parameters:

	namespaceURI	The namespace URI of the attribute to retrieve.
	localName	The local name of the attribute to retrieve.

Returns:

The DOMAttr value as a string, or an null if that attribute does not have a specified or default value.

Since:

DOM Level 2

virtual void xercesc::DOMElement::setAttributeNS	(	const XMLCh *	namespaceURI,
		const XMLCh *	qualifiedName,
		const XMLCh *	value
	)			[pure virtual]

Adds a new attribute.

If an attribute with the same local name and namespace URI is already present on the element, its prefix is changed to be the prefix part of the qualifiedName, and its value is changed to be the value parameter. This value is a simple string, it is not parsed as it is being set. So any markup (such as syntax to be recognized as an entity reference) is treated as literal text, and needs to be appropriately escaped by the implementation when it is written out. In order to assign an attribute value that contains entity references, the user must create an DOMAttr node plus any DOMText and DOMEntityReference nodes, build the appropriate subtree, and use setAttributeNodeNS or setAttributeNode to assign it as the value of an attribute.

Parameters:

	namespaceURI	The namespace URI of the attribute to create or alter.
	qualifiedName	The qualified name of the attribute to create or alter.
	value	The value to set in string form.

Exceptions:

DOMException

INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name contains an illegal character. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the qualifiedName is malformed, if the qualifiedName has a prefix and the namespaceURI is null or an empty string, if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xml" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", if the qualifiedName has a prefix that is "xmlns" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/", or if the qualifiedName is "xmlns" and the namespaceURI is different from "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/".

Since:

DOM Level 2

virtual void xercesc::DOMElement::removeAttributeNS	(	const XMLCh *	namespaceURI,
		const XMLCh *	localName
	)			[pure virtual]

Removes an attribute by local name and namespace URI.

If the removed attribute has a default value it is immediately replaced. The replacing attribute has the same namespace URI and local name, as well as the original prefix.

Parameters:

	namespaceURI	The namespace URI of the attribute to remove.
	localName	The local name of the attribute to remove.

Exceptions:

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Since:

DOM Level 2

virtual DOMAttr* xercesc::DOMElement::getAttributeNodeNS	(	const XMLCh *	namespaceURI,
		const XMLCh *	localName
	)			const [pure virtual]

Retrieves an DOMAttr node by local name and namespace URI.

Parameters:

	namespaceURI	The namespace URI of the attribute to retrieve.
	localName	The local name of the attribute to retrieve.

Returns:

The DOMAttr node with the specified attribute local name and namespace URI or null if there is no such attribute.

Since:

DOM Level 2

virtual DOMAttr* xercesc::DOMElement::setAttributeNodeNS

(

DOMAttr *

newAttr

)

[pure virtual]

Adds a new attribute.

If an attribute with that local name and namespace URI is already present in the element, it is replaced by the new one.

Parameters:

newAttr

The DOMAttr node to add to the attribute list.

Returns:

If the newAttr attribute replaces an existing attribute with the same local name and namespace URI, the replaced DOMAttr node is returned, otherwise null is returned.

Exceptions:

DOMException

WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if newAttr was created from a different document than the one that created the element. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. INUSE_ATTRIBUTE_ERR: Raised if newAttr is already an attribute of another DOMElement object. The DOM user must explicitly clone DOMAttr nodes to re-use them in other elements.

Since:

DOM Level 2

virtual DOMNodeList* xercesc::DOMElement::getElementsByTagNameNS	(	const XMLCh *	namespaceURI,
		const XMLCh *	localName
	)			const [pure virtual]

Returns a DOMNodeList of all the DOMElements with a given local name and namespace URI in the order in which they would be encountered in a preorder traversal of the DOMDocument tree, starting from this node.

Parameters:

	namespaceURI	The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all namespaces.
	localName	The local name of the elements to match on. The special value "*" matches all local names.

Returns:

A new DOMNodeList object containing all the matched DOMElements.

Since:

DOM Level 2

virtual bool xercesc::DOMElement::hasAttribute

(

const XMLCh *

name

)

const [pure virtual]

Returns true when an attribute with a given name is specified on this element or has a default value, false otherwise.

Parameters:

name

The name of the attribute to look for.

Returns:

true if an attribute with the given name is specified on this element or has a default value, false otherwise.

Since:

DOM Level 2

virtual bool xercesc::DOMElement::hasAttributeNS	(	const XMLCh *	namespaceURI,
		const XMLCh *	localName
	)			const [pure virtual]

Returns true when an attribute with a given local name and namespace URI is specified on this element or has a default value, false otherwise.

HTML-only DOM implementations do not need to implement this method.

Parameters:

	namespaceURI	The namespace URI of the attribute to look for.
	localName	The local name of the attribute to look for.

Returns:

true if an attribute with the given local name and namespace URI is specified or has a default value on this element, false otherwise.

Since:

DOM Level 2

virtual void xercesc::DOMElement::setIdAttribute

(

const XMLCh *

name

)

[pure virtual]

Declares the DOMAttr specified by name to be of type ID.

If the value of the specified DOMAttr is unique then this element node can later be retrieved using getElementById on Document. Note, however, that this simply affects this node and does not change any grammar that may be in use. To specify an DOMAttr by local name and namespace URI, use the setIdAttributeNS method.

Parameters:

name

The name of the DOMAttr.

Exceptions:

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if the specified node is not an DOMAttr of this element.

"Experimental - subject to change"

Since:

DOM Level 3

virtual void xercesc::DOMElement::setIdAttributeNS	(	const XMLCh *	namespaceURI,
		const XMLCh *	localName
	)			[pure virtual]

Declares the DOMAttr specified by local name and namespace URI to be of type ID.

If the value of the specified DOMAttr is unique then this DOMElement node can later be retrieved using getElementById on DOMDocument. Note, however, that this simply affects this node and does not change any grammar that may be in use.

Parameters:

	namespaceURI	The namespace URI of the DOMAttr.
	localName	The local name of the DOMAttr.

Exceptions:

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if the specified node is not an DOMAttr of this element.

"Experimental - subject to change"

Since:

DOM Level 3

virtual void xercesc::DOMElement::setIdAttributeNode

(

const DOMAttr *

idAttr

)

[pure virtual]

Declares the DOMAttr specified by node to be of type ID.

If the value of the specified DOMAttr is unique then this DOMElement node can later be retrieved using getElementById on DOMDocument. Note, however, that this simply affects this node and does not change any grammar that may be in use.

Parameters:

idAttr

The DOMAttr node.

Exceptions:

DOMException

NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if the specified node is not an DOMAttr of this element.

"Experimental - subject to change"

Since:

DOM Level 3

virtual const DOMTypeInfo* xercesc::DOMElement::getTypeInfo

(

)

const [pure virtual]

Returns the type information associated with this element.

"Experimental - subject to change"

Returns:

the DOMTypeInfo associated with this element

Since:

DOM level 3

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

• DOMElement.hpp

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