Class DocumentFragmentImpl

java.lang.Object

org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.NodeImpl

org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.ChildNode

org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.ParentNode

org.htmlunit.cyberneko.xerces.dom.DocumentFragmentImpl

All Implemented Interfaces:

Cloneable, DocumentFragment, EventTarget, Node, NodeList

public class DocumentFragmentImpl
extends ParentNode
implements DocumentFragment

DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document object. It is very common to want to be able to extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a Document object could fulfil this role, a Document object can potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation... and in DOM Level 1, nodes aren't allowed to cross Document boundaries anyway. What is really needed for this is a very lightweight object. DocumentFragment is such an object.

Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node.

The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the document. DocumentFragment do not need to be well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one child and that child node could be a Text node. Such a structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document.

When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a Document (or indeed any other Node that may take children) the children of the DocumentFragment and not the DocumentFragment itself are inserted into the Node. This makes the DocumentFragment very useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the DocumentFragment acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the standard methods from the Node interface, such as insertBefore() and appendChild().

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class ParentNode

firstChild, fNodeListCache, ownerDocument

Fields inherited from class ChildNode

nextSibling_, previousSibling_

Fields inherited from class 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 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

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
DocumentFragmentImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc)

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getNodeName()	the name of this node.
short	getNodeType()	A short integer indicating what type of node this is.

Methods inherited from class ParentNode

checkNormalizationAfterInsert, checkNormalizationAfterRemove, cloneNode, getChildNodes, getChildNodesUnoptimized, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLength, getOwnerDocument, getTextContent, getTextContent, hasChildNodes, hasTextContent, insertBefore, internalInsertBefore, internalRemoveChild, isEqualNode, item, lastChild, nodeListGetLength, nodeListItem, ownerDocument, removeChild, replaceChild, setOwnerDocument, setTextContent, synchronizeChildren

Methods inherited from class ChildNode

getNextSibling, getParentNode, getPreviousSibling, parentNode, previousSibling

Methods inherited from class NodeImpl

addEventListener, appendChild, changed, changes, compareDocumentPosition, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getBaseURI, 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 Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface Node

appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, 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

Constructor Details

DocumentFragmentImpl

public DocumentFragmentImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc)

Method Details

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 interface Node

Specified by:

getNodeType in class NodeImpl

getNodeName

public String getNodeName()

the name of this node. Returns the node name.

Specified by:

getNodeName in interface Node

Specified by:

getNodeName in class NodeImpl