Package com.google.gwt.xml.client

Interface Document

All Superinterfaces:

Node

public interface Document
extends Node

Document objects represent XML documents. Each Document can contain exactly one Element node, and any number of other node types.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface com.google.gwt.xml.client.Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
CDATASection	createCDATASection(String data)	This method creates a new CDATASection.
Comment	createComment(String data)	This method creates a new Comment.
DocumentFragment	createDocumentFragment()	This method creates a new DocumentFragment.
Element	createElement(String tagName)	This method creates a new Element.
ProcessingInstruction	createProcessingInstruction(String target, String data)	This method creates a new ProcessingInstruction.
Text	createTextNode(String data)	This method creates a new Text.
Element	getDocumentElement()	This method retrieves the document element.
Element	getElementById(String elementId)	This method retrieves the unique descendent elements which has an id of elementId.
NodeList	getElementsByTagName(String tagname)	This method retrieves any descendent elements which have a tag name of tagname.
Node	importNode(Node importedNode, boolean deep)	This method imports a node into the current Document.

Methods inherited from interface com.google.gwt.xml.client.Node

appendChild, cloneNode, getAttributes, getChildNodes, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue

Method Details

createCDATASection

CDATASection createCDATASection(String data)

This method creates a new CDATASection.

Parameters:

data - the data of the new CDATASection

Returns:

the newly created CDATASection

createComment

Comment createComment(String data)

This method creates a new Comment.

Parameters:

data - the data of the new Comment

Returns:

the newly created Comment

createDocumentFragment

DocumentFragment createDocumentFragment()

This method creates a new DocumentFragment.

Returns:

the newly created DocumentFragment

createElement

Element createElement(String tagName)

This method creates a new Element.

Parameters:

tagName - the tag name of the new Element

Returns:

the newly created Element

createProcessingInstruction

ProcessingInstruction createProcessingInstruction(String target,
 String data)

This method creates a new ProcessingInstruction.

Parameters:

target - the target of the new ProcessingInstruction

data - the data of the new ProcessingInstruction

Returns:

the newly created ProcessingInstruction

createTextNode

Text createTextNode(String data)

This method creates a new Text.

Parameters:

data - the data of the new Text

Returns:

the newly created Text

getDocumentElement

Element getDocumentElement()

This method retrieves the document element. Each document has at most one Element as its direct child, and this node is returned if it exists. null is returned otherwise.

Returns:

the document element of this Document

getElementById

Element getElementById(String elementId)

This method retrieves the unique descendent elements which has an id of elementId. Note the attribute which is used as an ID must be supplied in the DTD of the document. It is not sufficient to give the Element to be retrieved an attribute named 'id'.

Returns:

the Element which has an id of elementId and belongs to this Document

getElementsByTagName

NodeList getElementsByTagName(String tagname)

This method retrieves any descendent elements which have a tag name of tagname.

Returns:

the NodeList of elements which has a tag name of tagname and belong to this Document

importNode

Node importNode(Node importedNode,
 boolean deep)

This method imports a node into the current Document.

Parameters:

deep - whether to recurse to children

Returns:

the node Node imported