org.ucl.xpath.types
Class ElementType

java.lang.Object
  org.ucl.xpath.types.AnyType
      org.ucl.xpath.types.NodeType
          org.ucl.xpath.types.ElementType

public class ElementType

extends NodeType

A representation of the ElementType datatype

Constructor Summary

ElementType()
Initialises to a null element

ElementType(org.w3c.dom.Element v, int doc_order)
Initialises according to the supplied parameters

Method Summary

ResultSequence	nilled()
QName	node_name() Retrieves the name of the node
java.lang.String	string_type() Retrieves the datatype's full pathname
java.lang.String	string_value() Retrieves a String representation of the element being stored
static java.lang.String	textnode_strings(org.w3c.dom.Node node) Recursively concatenate TextNode strings
ResultSequence	typed_value() Creates a new ResultSequence consisting of the element stored
org.w3c.dom.Element	value() Retrieves the actual element value being represented

Methods inherited from class org.ucl.xpath.types.NodeType

after, after, before, before, document_order, dom_to_xpath, eliminate_dups, node_value, same, sort_document_order

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ElementType

public ElementType()

Initialises to a null element

ElementType

public ElementType(org.w3c.dom.Element v,
                   int doc_order)

Initialises according to the supplied parameters

Parameters:

v - The element being represented

doc_order - The document order

Method Detail

value

public org.w3c.dom.Element value()

Retrieves the actual element value being represented

Returns:

Actual element value being represented

string_type

public java.lang.String string_type()

Retrieves the datatype's full pathname

Specified by:

string_type in class AnyType

Returns:

"element" which is the datatype's full pathname

string_value

public java.lang.String string_value()

Retrieves a String representation of the element being stored

Specified by:

string_value in class AnyType

Returns:

String representation of the element being stored

typed_value

public ResultSequence typed_value()

Creates a new ResultSequence consisting of the element stored

Specified by:

typed_value in class NodeType

Returns:

New ResultSequence consisting of the element stored

textnode_strings

public static java.lang.String textnode_strings(org.w3c.dom.Node node)

Recursively concatenate TextNode strings

Parameters:

node - Node to recurse

Returns:

String representation of the node supplied

node_name

public QName node_name()

Retrieves the name of the node

Specified by:

node_name in class NodeType

Returns:

QName representation of the name of the node

nilled

public ResultSequence nilled()

Overrides:

nilled in class NodeType