gnu.xml.dom

Class Consumer

public class Consumer extends DomConsumer

Event consumer which constructs DOM documents using the implementation in this package, using SAX2 events. This packages various backdoors into this DOM implementation, as needed to address DOM requirements that can't be met by strictly conforming implementations of DOM.

These requirements all relate to DocumentType nodes and features of that node type. These features are normally not used, because that interface only exposes a subset of the information found in DTDs. More, that subset does not include the most important typing information. For example, it excludes element content models and attribute typing. It does expose some entity management issues, although entity management doesn't relate to document typing.

Note that SAX2 does not expose the literal text of the DTD's internal subset, so it will not be present in DOM trees constructed using this API. (Though with a good SAX2 implementation, it could be partially recreated...)

Version: $Date: 2001/11/20 04:46:24 $

Author: David Brownell

Nested Class Summary
static classConsumer.Backdoor
Implements the backdoors needed by DOM.
Constructor Summary
Consumer()
Constructs an unconfigured event consumer, as a terminus in a SAX event pipeline.
Consumer(EventConsumer next)
Constructs an unconfigured event consumer, as a stage in a SAX event pipeline.

Constructor Detail

Consumer

public Consumer()
Constructs an unconfigured event consumer, as a terminus in a SAX event pipeline.

Consumer

public Consumer(EventConsumer next)
Constructs an unconfigured event consumer, as a stage in a SAX event pipeline.

Source code is under GPL (with library exception) in the JAXP project at http://www.gnu.org/software/classpathx/jaxp
This documentation was derived from that source code on 2011-08-26.