org.exolab.castor.xml
Class Namespaces

java.lang.Object
  org.exolab.castor.xml.Namespaces

public final class Namespaces
extends Object

A class for handling Namespace declaration and scoping

Version:

$Revision: 5951 $ $Date: 2004-09-09 23:04:08 -0600 (Thu, 09 Sep 2004) $

Author:

Keith Visco

Field Summary

static String	XML_NAMESPACE The reserved XML 1.0 Namespace URI
static String	XML_NAMESPACE_PREFIX The reserved XML Namespace Prefix

Constructor Summary

Namespaces()
Creates a new Namespaces instance

Namespaces(Namespaces parent)
Creates a new Namespaces instance

Method Summary

void	addNamespace(String prefix, String uri) Adds the given namespace declaration to this Namespaces
Namespaces	createNamespaces() Creates a new Namespaces instance with this Namespaces as the parent
void	declareAsAttributes(AttributeListImpl atts, boolean localOnly) Declare the namespaces of this stack in as attributes.
Enumeration	getLocalNamespacePrefixes() Returns all namespace prefixes declared locally
Enumeration	getLocalNamespaces() Returns an Enumeration of local namespace URIs for this Namespaces.
String	getNamespacePrefix(String nsURI) Returns the Namespace prefix associated with the given URI.
String[]	getNamespacePrefixes(String nsURI) Returns all namespace prefixes associated with the given URI, including those from parent scopes.
String[]	getNamespacePrefixes(String nsURI, boolean local) Returns the Namespace prefixes associated with the given URI.
String	getNamespaceURI(String prefix) Returns the Namespace URI associated with the given prefix
String	getNonDefaultNamespacePrefix(String nsURI) Returns the Namespace prefix associated with the given URI.
Namespaces	getParent() Returns the parent Namespaces for this Namespaces instance.
boolean	removeNamespace(String prefix) Removes the namespace declaration for the given prefix.
void	sendEndEvents(ContentHandler handler) Calls the given ContentHandler's endPrefixMapping method for each locally declared namespace
void	sendStartEvents(ContentHandler handler) Calls the given ContentHandler's startPrefixMapping method for each locally declared namespace
void	setParent(Namespaces namespaces) Sets the parent Namespaces for this Namespaces instance.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

XML_NAMESPACE_PREFIX

public static final String XML_NAMESPACE_PREFIX

The reserved XML Namespace Prefix

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Constant Field Values

XML_NAMESPACE

public static final String XML_NAMESPACE

The reserved XML 1.0 Namespace URI

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

Namespaces

public Namespaces()

Creates a new Namespaces instance

Namespaces

public Namespaces(Namespaces parent)

Creates a new Namespaces instance

Method Detail

addNamespace

public void addNamespace(String prefix,
                         String uri)

Adds the given namespace declaration to this Namespaces

Parameters:

prefix - the namespace prefix

uri - the namespace URI to be associated with the given prefix

createNamespaces

public Namespaces createNamespaces()

Creates a new Namespaces instance with this Namespaces as the parent

getLocalNamespaces

public Enumeration getLocalNamespaces()

Returns an Enumeration of local namespace URIs for this Namespaces.

Returns:

an Enumeration of local namespace URIs.

getNamespaceURI

public String getNamespaceURI(String prefix)

Returns the Namespace URI associated with the given prefix

Parameters:

prefix - the namespace prefix to lookup

Returns:

the namespace URI associated with the given prefix

getNamespacePrefix

public String getNamespacePrefix(String nsURI)

Returns the Namespace prefix associated with the given URI. If multiple namespace prefixes have been declared, then the first one found is returned. To obtain all prefixes see #getNamespacePrefixes.

Parameters:

nsURI - the namespace URI to lookup

Returns:

the namespace prefix associated with the given URI

getLocalNamespacePrefixes

public Enumeration getLocalNamespacePrefixes()

Returns all namespace prefixes declared locally

Returns:

an Enumeration of locally declared namespace prefixes

getNamespacePrefixes

public String[] getNamespacePrefixes(String nsURI)

Returns all namespace prefixes associated with the given URI, including those from parent scopes.

Parameters:

nsURI - the namespace URI to lookup

Returns:

the namespace prefixes associated with the given URI

getNamespacePrefixes

public String[] getNamespacePrefixes(String nsURI,
                                     boolean local)

Returns the Namespace prefixes associated with the given URI.

Parameters:

nsURI - the namespace URI to lookup

local - a boolean that when true indicates only the local scope is searched.

Returns:

the namespace prefixes associated with the given URI

getNonDefaultNamespacePrefix

public String getNonDefaultNamespacePrefix(String nsURI)

Returns the Namespace prefix associated with the given URI. Or null if no prefix has been declared. This method will ignore the default namespace. This is useful when dealing with attributes that do not use the default namespace.

Parameters:

nsURI - the namespace URI to lookup

Returns:

the namespace prefix associated with the given URI

getParent

public Namespaces getParent()

Returns the parent Namespaces for this Namespaces instance.

Returns:

the parent Namespaces for this Namespaces instance.

removeNamespace

public boolean removeNamespace(String prefix)

Removes the namespace declaration for the given prefix. This is a local action only, the namespace declaration will not be removed from any parent Namespaces object.

Parameters:

prefix - the namespace prefix to remove the binding of

Returns:

true if the namespace declaration was removed, otherwise false.

setParent

public void setParent(Namespaces namespaces)

Sets the parent Namespaces for this Namespaces instance.

Parameters:

namespaces - the parent Namespaces

sendEndEvents

public void sendEndEvents(ContentHandler handler)
                   throws SAXException

Calls the given ContentHandler's endPrefixMapping method for each locally declared namespace

Parameters:

handler - the ContentHandler

Throws:

SAXException

sendStartEvents

public void sendStartEvents(ContentHandler handler)
                     throws SAXException

Calls the given ContentHandler's startPrefixMapping method for each locally declared namespace

Parameters:

handler - the ContentHandler

Throws:

SAXException

declareAsAttributes

public void declareAsAttributes(AttributeListImpl atts,
                                boolean localOnly)

Declare the namespaces of this stack in as attributes.

Parameters:

atts - the Attribute List to fill in.