Package com.icl.saxon.tree

Interface NodeFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

StyleNodeFactory

public interface NodeFactory

Interface NodeFactory.
A Factory for nodes used to build a tree.
Currently only allows Element nodes to be user-constructed.

Version:

25 February 2000

Author:

Michael H. Kay

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
ElementImpl	makeElementNode(NodeInfo parent, int nameCode, AttributeCollection attlist, int[] namespaces, int namespacesUsed, org.xml.sax.Locator locator, int sequenceNumber)	Create an Element node

Method Detail

makeElementNode

ElementImpl makeElementNode(NodeInfo parent,
                            int nameCode,
                            AttributeCollection attlist,
                            int[] namespaces,
                            int namespacesUsed,
                            org.xml.sax.Locator locator,
                            int sequenceNumber)

Create an Element node

Parameters:

parent - The parent element

name - The element name

attlist - The attribute collection, excluding any namespace attributes

namespaces - List of new namespace declarations for this element, as a sequence of namespace codes representing pairs of strings: (prefix1, uri1), (prefix2, uri2)...

namespacesUsed - the number of elemnts of the namespaces array actually used

locator - Indicates the source document and line number containing the node

sequenceNumber - Sequence number to be assigned to represent document order.