class Poco::XML::DocumentFragment

Overview

DocumentFragment is a “lightweight” or “minimal” Document object. More…

#include <DocumentFragment.h>

class DocumentFragment: public Poco::XML::AbstractContainerNode
{
public:
    // methods

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    nodeName() const;

    virtual
    unsigned short
    nodeType() const;

protected:
    // construction

    DocumentFragment(Document* pOwnerDocument);

    DocumentFragment(
        Document* pOwnerDocument,
        const DocumentFragment& fragment
        );

    // methods

    virtual
    Node*
    copyNode(
        bool deep,
        Document* pOwnerDocument
        ) const;
};

Inherited Members

public:
    // typedefs

    typedef Poco::XML::NamespaceSupport NSMap;

    // enums

    enum
    {
        ELEMENT_NODE                = 1,
        ATTRIBUTE_NODE,
        TEXT_NODE,
        CDATA_SECTION_NODE,
        ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE,
        ENTITY_NODE,
        PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE,
        COMMENT_NODE,
        DOCUMENT_NODE,
        DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE,
        DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE,
        NOTATION_NODE,
    };

    // methods

    void
    duplicate() const;

    void
    release() const;

    virtual
    void
    autoRelease() = 0;

    virtual
    void
    addEventListener(
        const XMLString& type,
        EventListener* listener,
        bool useCapture
        ) = 0;

    virtual
    void
    removeEventListener(
        const XMLString& type,
        EventListener* listener,
        bool useCapture
        ) = 0;

    virtual
    bool
    dispatchEvent(Event* evt) = 0;

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    nodeName() const = 0;

    const XMLString&
    nodeValue() const;

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    getNodeValue() const = 0;

    virtual
    void
    setNodeValue(const XMLString& value) = 0;

    virtual
    unsigned short
    nodeType() const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    parentNode() const = 0;

    virtual
    NodeList*
    childNodes() const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    firstChild() const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    lastChild() const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    previousSibling() const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    nextSibling() const = 0;

    virtual
    NamedNodeMap*
    attributes() const = 0;

    virtual
    Document*
    ownerDocument() const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    insertBefore(
        Node* newChild,
        Node* refChild
        ) = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    replaceChild(
        Node* newChild,
        Node* oldChild
        ) = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    removeChild(Node* oldChild) = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    appendChild(Node* newChild) = 0;

    virtual
    bool
    hasChildNodes() const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    cloneNode(bool deep) const = 0;

    virtual
    void
    normalize() = 0;

    virtual
    bool
    isSupported(
        const XMLString& feature,
        const XMLString& version
        ) const = 0;

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    namespaceURI() const = 0;

    virtual
    XMLString
    prefix() const = 0;

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    localName() const = 0;

    virtual
    bool
    hasAttributes() const = 0;

    virtual
    XMLString
    innerText() const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    getNodeByPath(const XMLString& path) const = 0;

    virtual
    Node*
    getNodeByPathNS(
        const XMLString& path,
        const NSMap& nsMap
        ) const = 0;

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    nodeName() const;

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    getNodeValue() const;

    virtual
    void
    setNodeValue(const XMLString& value);

    virtual
    Node*
    parentNode() const;

    virtual
    NodeList*
    childNodes() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    firstChild() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    lastChild() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    previousSibling() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    nextSibling() const;

    virtual
    NamedNodeMap*
    attributes() const;

    virtual
    Document*
    ownerDocument() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    insertBefore(
        Node* newChild,
        Node* refChild
        );

    virtual
    Node*
    replaceChild(
        Node* newChild,
        Node* oldChild
        );

    virtual
    Node*
    removeChild(Node* oldChild);

    virtual
    Node*
    appendChild(Node* newChild);

    virtual
    bool
    hasChildNodes() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    cloneNode(bool deep) const;

    virtual
    void
    normalize();

    virtual
    bool
    isSupported(
        const XMLString& feature,
        const XMLString& version
        ) const;

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    namespaceURI() const;

    virtual
    XMLString
    prefix() const;

    virtual
    const XMLString&
    localName() const;

    virtual
    bool
    hasAttributes() const;

    virtual
    void
    addEventListener(
        const XMLString& type,
        EventListener* listener,
        bool useCapture
        );

    virtual
    void
    removeEventListener(
        const XMLString& type,
        EventListener* listener,
        bool useCapture
        );

    virtual
    bool
    dispatchEvent(Event* evt);

    virtual
    XMLString
    innerText() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    getNodeByPath(const XMLString& path) const;

    virtual
    Node*
    getNodeByPathNS(
        const XMLString& path,
        const NSMap& nsMap
        ) const;

    virtual
    void
    autoRelease();

    virtual
    Node*
    firstChild() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    lastChild() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    insertBefore(
        Node* newChild,
        Node* refChild
        );

    virtual
    Node*
    replaceChild(
        Node* newChild,
        Node* oldChild
        );

    virtual
    Node*
    removeChild(Node* oldChild);

    virtual
    Node*
    appendChild(Node* newChild);

    virtual
    bool
    hasChildNodes() const;

    virtual
    bool
    hasAttributes() const;

    virtual
    Node*
    getNodeByPath(const XMLString& path) const;

    virtual
    Node*
    getNodeByPathNS(
        const XMLString& path,
        const NSMap& nsMap
        ) const;

protected:
    // fields

    static const XMLString EMPTY_STRING;

    // methods

    virtual
    Node*
    copyNode(
        bool deep,
        Document* pOwnerDocument
        ) const = 0;

    virtual
    bool
    events() const;

    virtual
    bool
    eventsSuspended() const;

    void
    captureEvent(Event* evt);

    void
    bubbleEvent(Event* evt);

    void
    dispatchSubtreeModified();

    void
    dispatchNodeInserted();

    void
    dispatchNodeRemoved();

    virtual
    void
    dispatchNodeRemovedFromDocument();

    virtual
    void
    dispatchNodeInsertedIntoDocument();

    void
    dispatchAttrModified(
        Attr* pAttr,
        MutationEvent::AttrChangeType changeType,
        const XMLString& prevValue,
        const XMLString& newValue
        );

    void
    dispatchCharacterDataModified(
        const XMLString& prevValue,
        const XMLString& newValue
        );

    void
    setOwnerDocument(Document* pOwnerDocument);

    virtual
    void
    dispatchNodeRemovedFromDocument();

    virtual
    void
    dispatchNodeInsertedIntoDocument();

    bool
    hasAttributeValue(
        const XMLString& name,
        const XMLString& value,
        const NSMap* pNSMap
        ) const;

    static
    const Node*
    findNode(
        XMLString::const_iterator& it,
        const XMLString::const_iterator& end,
        const Node* pNode,
        const NSMap* pNSMap
        );

    static
    const Node*
    findElement(
        const XMLString& name,
        const Node* pNode,
        const NSMap* pNSMap
        );

    static
    const Node*
    findElement(
        int index,
        const Node* pNode,
        const NSMap* pNSMap
        );

    static
    const Node*
    findElement(
        const XMLString& attr,
        const XMLString& value,
        const Node* pNode,
        const NSMap* pNSMap
        );

    static
    const Attr*
    findAttribute(
        const XMLString& name,
        const Node* pNode,
        const NSMap* pNSMap
        );

    static
    bool
    namesAreEqual(
        const Node* pNode1,
        const Node* pNode2,
        const NSMap* pNSMap
        );

    static
    bool
    namesAreEqual(
        const Node* pNode,
        const XMLString& name,
        const NSMap* pNSMap
        );

Detailed Documentation

DocumentFragment is a “lightweight” or “minimal” Document object.

It is very common to want to be able to extract a portion of a document’s tree or to create a new fragment of a document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a Document object could fulfill this role, a Document object can potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation. What is really needed for this is a very lightweight object. DocumentFragment is such an object.

Furthermore, various operations such as inserting nodes as children of another Node may take DocumentFragment objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node.

The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the document. DocumentFragment nodes do not need to be well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one child and that child node could be a Text node. Such a structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document.

When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a Document (or indeed any other Node that may take children) the children of the DocumentFragment and not the DocumentFragment itself are inserted into the Node. This makes the DocumentFragment very useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the DocumentFragment acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the standard methods from the Node interface, such as insertBefore and appendChild.

Methods

virtual
const XMLString&
nodeName() const

Returns the name of this node, depending on its type.

virtual
unsigned short
nodeType() const

Returns a code representing the type of the underlying object.