org.dom4j
Interface Document

All Superinterfaces:

Branch, Cloneable, Node

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDocument

public interface Document

extends Branch

Document defines an XML Document.

Version:

$Revision: 1.8 $

Author:

James Strachan

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.dom4j.Node

ANY_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, MAX_NODE_TYPE, NAMESPACE_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE, UNKNOWN_NODE

Method Summary

Document	addComment(String comment) Adds a new Comment node with the given text to this branch.
Document	addDocType(String name, String publicId, String systemId) Adds a DOCTYPE declaration to this document
Document	addProcessingInstruction(String target, Map data) Adds a processing instruction for the given target
Document	addProcessingInstruction(String target, String text) Adds a processing instruction for the given target
DocumentType	getDocType()
EntityResolver	getEntityResolver()
Element	getRootElement() Returns the root Element for this document.
void	setDocType(DocumentType docType) Sets the DocumentType property
void	setEntityResolver(EntityResolver entityResolver) Sets the EntityResolver used to find resolve URIs such as for DTDs, or XML Schema documents
void	setRootElement(Element rootElement) Sets the root element for this document

Methods inherited from interface org.dom4j.Branch

add, add, add, add, addElement, addElement, addElement, appendContent, clearContent, content, elementByID, indexOf, node, nodeCount, nodeIterator, normalize, processingInstruction, processingInstructions, processingInstructions, remove, remove, remove, remove, removeProcessingInstruction, setContent, setProcessingInstructions

Methods inherited from interface org.dom4j.Node

accept, asXML, asXPathResult, clone, createXPath, detach, getDocument, getName, getNodeType, getNodeTypeName, getParent, getPath, getPath, getStringValue, getText, getUniquePath, getUniquePath, hasContent, isReadOnly, matches, numberValueOf, selectNodes, selectNodes, selectNodes, selectObject, selectSingleNode, setDocument, setName, setParent, setText, supportsParent, valueOf, write

Method Detail

getRootElement

public Element getRootElement()

Returns the root Element for this document.

Returns:

the root element for this document

setRootElement

public void setRootElement(Element rootElement)

Sets the root element for this document

Parameters:

rootElement - the new root element for this document

addComment

public Document addComment(String comment)

Adds a new Comment node with the given text to this branch.

Parameters:

comment - is the text for the Comment node.

Returns:

this Document instance.

addProcessingInstruction

public Document addProcessingInstruction(String target,
                                         String text)

Adds a processing instruction for the given target

Parameters:

target - is the target of the processing instruction

text - is the textual data (key/value pairs) of the processing instruction

Returns:

this Document instance.

addProcessingInstruction

public Document addProcessingInstruction(String target,
                                         Map data)

Adds a processing instruction for the given target

Parameters:

target - is the target of the processing instruction

data - is a Map of the key / value pairs of the processing instruction

Returns:

this Document instance.

addDocType

public Document addDocType(String name,
                           String publicId,
                           String systemId)

Adds a DOCTYPE declaration to this document

Parameters:

name - is the name of the root element

publicId - is the PUBLIC URI

systemId - is the SYSTEM URI

Returns:

this Document instance.

getDocType

public DocumentType getDocType()

Returns:

the DocumentType property

setDocType

public void setDocType(DocumentType docType)

Sets the DocumentType property

getEntityResolver

public EntityResolver getEntityResolver()

Returns:

the EntityResolver used to find resolve URIs such as for DTDs, or XML Schema documents

setEntityResolver

public void setEntityResolver(EntityResolver entityResolver)

Sets the EntityResolver used to find resolve URIs such as for DTDs, or XML Schema documents