DOMText Class Referenceabstract

The `DOMText` interface inherits from `DOMCharacterData` and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an `DOMElement` or `DOMAttr`. More...

Inheritance diagram for DOMText:

## Public Member Functions

Destructor
virtual | ~DOMText ()
| Destructor. More...
Functions introduced in DOM Level 1
virtual DOMText * | splitText (XMLSize_t offset)=0
| Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified `offset`, keeping both in the tree as siblings. More...
Functions introduced in DOM Level 3
virtual bool | getIsElementContentWhitespace () const =0
| Returns whether this text node contains element content whitespace, often abusively called "ignorable whitespace". More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getWholeText () const =0
| Returns all text of `DOMText` nodes logically-adjacent text nodes to this node, concatenated in document order. More...
virtual DOMText * | replaceWholeText (const XMLCh *content)=0
| Substitutes the a specified text for the text of the current node and all logically-adjacent text nodes. More...
Non-standard extension
virtual bool | isIgnorableWhitespace () const =0
| Non-standard extension. More...
Public Member Functions inherited from DOMCharacterData
virtual | ~DOMCharacterData ()
| Destructor. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getData () const =0
| Returns the character data of the node that implements this interface. More...
virtual XMLSize_t | getLength () const =0
| Returns the number of characters that are available through `data` and the `substringData` method below. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | substringData (XMLSize_t offset, XMLSize_t count) const =0
| Extracts a range of data from the node. More...
virtual void | appendData (const XMLCh *arg)=0
| Append the string to the end of the character data of the node. More...
virtual void | insertData (XMLSize_t offset, const XMLCh *arg)=0
| Insert a string at the specified character offset. More...
virtual void | deleteData (XMLSize_t offset, XMLSize_t count)=0
| Remove a range of characters from the node. More...
virtual void | replaceData (XMLSize_t offset, XMLSize_t count, const XMLCh *arg)=0
| Replace the characters starting at the specified character offset with the specified string. More...
virtual void | setData (const XMLCh *data)=0
| Sets the character data of the node that implements this interface. More...
Public Member Functions inherited from DOMNode
virtual | ~DOMNode ()
| Destructor. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getNodeName () const =0
| The name of this node, depending on its type; see the table above. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getNodeValue () const =0
| Gets the value of this node, depending on its type. More...
virtual NodeType | getNodeType () const =0
| An enum value representing the type of the underlying object. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getParentNode () const =0
| Gets the parent of this node. More...
virtual DOMNodeList * | getChildNodes () const =0
| Gets a `DOMNodeList` that contains all children of this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getFirstChild () const =0
| Gets the first child of this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getLastChild () const =0
| Gets the last child of this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getPreviousSibling () const =0
| Gets the node immediately preceding this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getNextSibling () const =0
| Gets the node immediately following this node. More...
virtual DOMNamedNodeMap * | getAttributes () const =0
| Gets a `DOMNamedNodeMap` containing the attributes of this node (if it is an `DOMElement`) or `null` otherwise. More...
virtual DOMDocument * | getOwnerDocument () const =0
| Gets the `DOMDocument` object associated with this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | cloneNode (bool deep) const =0
| Returns a duplicate of this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | insertBefore (DOMNode *newChild, DOMNode *refChild)=0
| Inserts the node `newChild` before the existing child node `refChild`. More...
virtual DOMNode * | replaceChild (DOMNode *newChild, DOMNode *oldChild)=0
| Replaces the child node `oldChild` with `newChild` in the list of children, and returns the `oldChild` node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | removeChild (DOMNode *oldChild)=0
| Removes the child node indicated by `oldChild` from the list of children, and returns it. More...
virtual DOMNode * | appendChild (DOMNode *newChild)=0
| Adds the node `newChild` to the end of the list of children of this node. More...
virtual bool | hasChildNodes () const =0
| This is a convenience method to allow easy determination of whether a node has any children. More...
virtual void | setNodeValue (const XMLCh *nodeValue)=0
| Sets the value of the node. More...
virtual void | normalize ()=0
| Puts all `DOMText` nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this `DOMNode`, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g., tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates `DOMText` nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent `DOMText` nodes nor empty `DOMText` nodes. More...
virtual bool | isSupported (const XMLCh *feature, const XMLCh *version) const =0
| Tests whether the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and that feature is supported by this node. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getNamespaceURI () const =0
| Get the namespace URI of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getPrefix () const =0
| Get the namespace prefix of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getLocalName () const =0
| Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node. More...
virtual void | setPrefix (const XMLCh *prefix)=0
| Set the namespace prefix of this node. More...
virtual bool | hasAttributes () const =0
| Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes. More...
virtual bool | isSameNode (const DOMNode *other) const =0
| Returns whether this node is the same node as the given one. More...
virtual bool | isEqualNode (const DOMNode *arg) const =0
| Tests whether two nodes are equal. More...
virtual void * | setUserData (const XMLCh *key, void *data, DOMUserDataHandler *handler)=0
| Associate an object to a key on this node. More...
virtual void * | getUserData (const XMLCh *key) const =0
| Retrieves the object associated to a key on a this node. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getBaseURI () const =0
| The absolute base URI of this node or `null` if undefined. More...
virtual short | compareDocumentPosition (const DOMNode *other) const =0
| Compares the reference node, i.e. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getTextContent () const =0
| This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants. More...
virtual void | setTextContent (const XMLCh *textContent)=0
| This attribute removes any possible children this node may have and, if the new string is not empty or null, replaced by a single `DOMText` node containing the string this attribute is set to. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | lookupPrefix (const XMLCh *namespaceURI) const =0
| Look up the prefix associated to the given namespace URI, starting from this node. More...
virtual bool | isDefaultNamespace (const XMLCh *namespaceURI) const =0
| This method checks if the specified `namespaceURI` is the default namespace or not. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | lookupNamespaceURI (const XMLCh *prefix) const =0
| Look up the namespace URI associated to the given prefix, starting from this node. More...
virtual void * | getFeature (const XMLCh *feature, const XMLCh *version) const =0
| This method makes available a `DOMNode`'s specialized interface. More...
virtual void | release ()=0
| Called to indicate that this Node (and its associated children) is no longer in use and that the implementation may relinquish any resources associated with it and its associated children. More...

## Protected Member Functions

Hidden constructors
| DOMText ()
| DOMText (const DOMText &other)
Protected Member Functions inherited from DOMCharacterData
| DOMCharacterData ()
| DOMCharacterData (const DOMCharacterData &other)
Protected Member Functions inherited from DOMNode
| DOMNode ()
| DOMNode (const DOMNode &)

## Additional Inherited Members

Public Types inherited from DOMNode
enum | NodeType { ELEMENT_NODE = 1, ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2, TEXT_NODE = 3, CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5, ENTITY_NODE = 6, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7, COMMENT_NODE = 8, DOCUMENT_NODE = 9, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11, NOTATION_NODE = 12 }
| NodeType. More...
enum | DocumentPosition { DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x01, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x02, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x04, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x08, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20 }
| DocumentPosition: More...

## Detailed Description

The `DOMText` interface inherits from `DOMCharacterData` and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an `DOMElement` or `DOMAttr`.

If there is no markup inside an element's content, the text is contained in a single object implementing the `DOMText` interface that is the only child of the element. If there is markup, it is parsed into the information items (elements, comments, etc.) and `DOMText` nodes that form the list of children of the element.

When a document is first made available via the DOM, there is only one `DOMText` node for each block of text. Users may create adjacent `DOMText` nodes that represent the contents of a given element without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, so they will not (in general) persist between DOM editing sessions. The `normalize()` method on `DOMNode` merges any such adjacent `DOMText` objects into a single node for each block of text.

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

## DOMText() [1/2]

DOMText::DOMText | ( |  | ) |

protected

## DOMText() [2/2]

DOMText::DOMText | ( | const DOMText & | other | ) |

protected

## ~DOMText()

virtual DOMText::~DOMText | ( |  | ) |

virtual

Destructor.

References XERCES_CPP_NAMESPACE_END.

## Member Function Documentation

## getIsElementContentWhitespace()

virtual bool DOMText::getIsElementContentWhitespace | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

Returns whether this text node contains element content whitespace, often abusively called "ignorable whitespace".

The text node is determined to contain whitespace in element content during the load of the document or if validation occurs while using `DOMDocument::normalizeDocument()`.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## getWholeText()

virtual const XMLCh* DOMText::getWholeText | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

Returns all text of `DOMText` nodes logically-adjacent text nodes to this node, concatenated in document order.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## isIgnorableWhitespace()

virtual bool DOMText::isIgnorableWhitespace | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

Non-standard extension.

Return true if this node contains ignorable whitespaces only.

Returns
  True if this node contains ignorable whitespaces only.

## replaceWholeText()

virtual DOMText* DOMText::replaceWholeText | ( | const XMLCh * | content | ) |

pure virtual

Substitutes the a specified text for the text of the current node and all logically-adjacent text nodes.

This method returns the node in the hierarchy which received the replacement text, which is null if the text was empty or is the current node if the current node is not read-only or otherwise is a new node of the same type as the current node inserted at the site of the replacement. All logically-adjacent text nodes are removed including the current node unless it was the recipient of the replacement text.
Where the nodes to be removed are read-only descendants of an `DOMEntityReference`, the `DOMEntityReference` must be removed instead of the read-only nodes. If any `DOMEntityReference` to be removed has descendants that are not `DOMEntityReference`, `DOMText`, or `DOMCDATASection` nodes, the `replaceWholeText` method must fail before performing any modification of the document, raising a `DOMException` with the code `NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR`.

Parameters

  content | The content of the replacing `DOMText` node.

Returns
  The `DOMText` node created with the specified content.

Exceptions

  DOMException | NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if one of the `DOMText` nodes being replaced is readonly.

Since
  DOM Level 3

## splitText()

virtual DOMText* DOMText::splitText | ( | XMLSize_t | offset | ) |

pure virtual

Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified `offset`, keeping both in the tree as siblings.

After being split, this node will contain all the content up to the `offset` point. A new node of the same type, which contains all the content at and after the `offset` point, is returned. If the original node had a parent node, the new node is inserted as the next sibling of the original node. When the `offset` is equal to the length of this node, the new node has no data.

Parameters

  offset | The 16-bit unit offset at which to split, starting from `0`.

Returns
  The new node, of the same type as this node.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in `data`. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Since
  DOM Level 1

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- DOMText.hpp