Class EntityReferenceImpl
- All Implemented Interfaces:
Cloneable
,EntityReference
,EventTarget
,Node
,NodeList
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.
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Field Summary
FieldsFields inherited from class org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.ParentNode
firstChild, fNodeListCache, ownerDocument
Fields inherited from class org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.ChildNode
nextSibling_, previousSibling_
Fields inherited from class org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IS_CONTAINED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, FIRSTCHILD, HASSTRING, ID, NORMALIZED, OWNED, ownerNode_, READONLY, SPECIFIED, SYNCCHILDREN
Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node
ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE
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Constructor Summary
Constructors -
Method Summary
Modifier and TypeMethodDescriptioncloneNode
(boolean deep) Returns a duplicate of a given node.The absolute base URI of this node ornull
if undefined.protected String
NON-DOM: compute string representation of the entity reference.the name of this node.short
A short integer indicating what type of node this is.protected void
Override this method in subclass to hook in efficient internal data structure.Methods inherited from class org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.ParentNode
checkNormalizationAfterInsert, checkNormalizationAfterRemove, getChildNodes, getChildNodesUnoptimized, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLength, getOwnerDocument, getTextContent, getTextContent, hasChildNodes, hasTextContent, insertBefore, internalInsertBefore, internalRemoveChild, isEqualNode, item, lastChild, nodeListGetLength, nodeListItem, ownerDocument, removeChild, replaceChild, setOwnerDocument, setTextContent
Methods inherited from class org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.ChildNode
getNextSibling, getParentNode, getPreviousSibling, parentNode, previousSibling
Methods inherited from class org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
addEventListener, appendChild, changed, changes, compareDocumentPosition, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getElementAncestor, getFeature, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNodeNumber, getNodeValue, getPrefix, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasStringValue, hasStringValue, isDefaultNamespace, isFirstChild, isFirstChild, isIdAttribute, isIdAttribute, isNormalized, isNormalized, isOwned, isOwned, isSameNode, isSpecified, isSpecified, isSupported, lookupNamespacePrefix, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, needsSyncChildren, needsSyncChildren, normalize, removeEventListener, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setUserData, toString
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node
appendChild, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData
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Field Details
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name
Name of Entity referenced
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Constructor Details
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EntityReferenceImpl
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Method Details
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getNodeType
public short getNodeType()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. 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.- Specified by:
getNodeType
in interfaceNode
- Specified by:
getNodeType
in classNodeImpl
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getNodeName
the name of this node. Returns the name of the entity referenced- Specified by:
getNodeName
in interfaceNode
- Specified by:
getNodeName
in classNodeImpl
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cloneNode
Returns a duplicate of a given node. You can consider this a generic "copy constructor" for nodes. The newly returned object should be completely independent of the source object's subtree, so changes in one after the clone has been made will not affect the other.Note: since we never have any children deep is meaningless here, ParentNode overrides this behavior. Returns a duplicate of a given node. You can consider this a generic "copy constructor" for nodes. The newly returned object should be completely independent of the source object's subtree, so changes in one after the clone has been made will not affect the other.
Note: since we never have any children deep is meaningless here, ParentNode overrides this behavior. Returns a duplicate of a given node. You can consider this a generic "copy constructor" for nodes. The newly returned object should be completely independent of the source object's subtree, so changes in one after the clone has been made will not affect the other.
Example: Cloning a Text node will copy both the node and the text it contains.
Example: Cloning something that has children -- Element or Attr, for example -- will _not_ clone those children unless a "deep clone" has been requested. A shallow clone of an Attr node will yield an empty Attr of the same name.
NOTE: Clones will always be read/write, even if the node being cloned is read-only, to permit applications using only the DOM API to obtain editable copies of locked portions of the tree. Clone node.
- Specified by:
cloneNode
in interfaceNode
- Overrides:
cloneNode
in classParentNode
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getBaseURI
The absolute base URI of this node ornull
if undefined. This value is computed according to . However, when theDocument
supports the feature "HTML" , the base URI is computed using first the value of the href attribute of the HTML BASE element if any, and the value of thedocumentURI
attribute from theDocument
interface otherwise.
When the node is anElement
, aDocument
or a aProcessingInstruction
, this attribute represents the properties [base URI] defined in . When the node is aNotation
, anEntity
, or anEntityReference
, this attribute represents the properties [declaration base URI] in the . How will this be affected by resolution of relative namespace URIs issue?It's not.Should this only be on Document, Element, ProcessingInstruction, Entity, and Notation nodes, according to the infoset? If not, what is it equal to on other nodes? Null? An empty string? I think it should be the parent's.No.Should this be read-only and computed or and actual read-write attribute?Read-only and computed (F2F 19 Jun 2000 and teleconference 30 May 2001).If the base HTML element is not yet attached to a document, does the insert change the Document.baseURI? Yes. (F2F 26 Sep 2001) Returns the absolute base URI of this node or null if the implementation wasn't able to obtain an absolute URI. Note: If the URI is malformed, a null is returned.- Specified by:
getBaseURI
in interfaceNode
- Overrides:
getBaseURI
in classNodeImpl
- Returns:
- The absolute base URI of this node or null.
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getEntityRefValue
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.- Returns:
- String representing a value of this entity ref. or null if any node other than EntityReference, Text is encountered during computation
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synchronizeChildren
protected void synchronizeChildren()Override this method in subclass to hook in efficient internal data structure. 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.- Overrides:
synchronizeChildren
in classParentNode
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