All Known Subinterfaces:

Child, Leaf, Parent

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractChild, AbstractContentNode, Comment, Document, Element, Text
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public interface Node
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Base interface of data nodes.
Nodes are organized as a tree.
Implementations of Node are:
Author:

Damien Carbonne

Field Summary

Fields
Modifier and Type	Field	Description
`static Predicate<Node>`	`ANY_NODE`	A Node Predicate that always return `true`.
`static Comparator<Node>`	`ELEMENT_NAME_AND_ATTRIBUTES_COMPARATOR`
`static Comparator<Node>`	`ELEMENT_NAME_COMPARATOR`
`static Predicate<Node>`	`IS_COMMENT`	A Node Predicate that returns `true` when the node is a Comment.
`static Predicate<Node>`	`IS_ELEMENT`	A Node Predicate that returns `true` when the node is an Element.
`static Predicate<Node>`	`IS_IGNORABLE_TEXT`	A Node Predicate that returns `true` when the node is a Text that is ignorable.
`static Predicate<Node>`	`IS_PURE_ELEMENT`	A Node Predicate that returns `true` when the node is an Element that has no attributes and no children .
`static Predicate<Node>`	`IS_TEXT`	A Node Predicate that returns `true` when the node is a Text.

Method Summary

All Methods Static Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`Node`	`clone(boolean recurse)`	Return a clone of this node.
`boolean`	`deepEquals(Node node)`	Return true when this node and its descendants equals other node hierarchy.
`Document`	`getDocument()`
`static String`	`getNameAndAttributes(Element element)`
`String`	`getQName()`
`Element`	`getRootElement()`	Returns the root element of this node.
`NodeType`	`getType()`

- Field Detail
  - ANY_NODE
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static final Predicate<Node> ANY_NODE
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    A Node Predicate that always return true.
  - IS_COMMENT
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static final Predicate<Node> IS_COMMENT
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    A Node Predicate that returns true when the node is a Comment.
  - IS_ELEMENT
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static final Predicate<Node> IS_ELEMENT
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    A Node Predicate that returns true when the node is an Element.
  - IS_TEXT
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static final Predicate<Node> IS_TEXT
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    A Node Predicate that returns true when the node is a Text.
  - IS_PURE_ELEMENT
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static final Predicate<Node> IS_PURE_ELEMENT
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    A Node Predicate that returns true when the node is an Element that has no attributes and no children .
  - IS_IGNORABLE_TEXT
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static final Predicate<Node> IS_IGNORABLE_TEXT
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    A Node Predicate that returns true when the node is a Text that is ignorable.
  - ELEMENT_NAME_COMPARATOR
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static final Comparator<Node> ELEMENT_NAME_COMPARATOR
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  - ELEMENT_NAME_AND_ATTRIBUTES_COMPARATOR
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static final Comparator<Node> ELEMENT_NAME_AND_ATTRIBUTES_COMPARATOR
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- Method Detail
  - getNameAndAttributes
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static String getNameAndAttributes(Element element)
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  - getType
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NodeType getType()
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    Returns:
    
    The node type.
  - clone
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Node clone(boolean recurse)
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    Return a clone of this node.
    
    Parameters:
    
    recurse - If true, also clone children nodes.
    
    Returns:
    
    A clone of this node, and optionally its children.
  - deepEquals
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boolean deepEquals(Node node)
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    Return true when this node and its descendants equals other node hierarchy.
    Parents are ignored.
    
    Parameters:
    
    node - The other node to compare.
    
    Returns:
    
    True when this node and other node have same hierarchies.
  - getDocument
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Document getDocument()
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    Returns:
    
    The document of this node, possibly null.
  - getRootElement
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Element getRootElement()
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    Returns the root element of this node.
    If this node is a document, then this is its unique child element, possibly null.
    If this node is a child, then this is the highest ancestor that is an element, possibly null.
    
    Returns:
    
    The root element of this node, possibly null.
  - getQName
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String getQName()
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    Returns:
    
    A string representation of this node. May be used for debug.

Interface Node

Field Summary

Method Summary

Field Detail

ANY_NODE

IS_COMMENT

IS_ELEMENT

IS_TEXT

IS_PURE_ELEMENT

IS_IGNORABLE_TEXT

ELEMENT_NAME_COMPARATOR

ELEMENT_NAME_AND_ATTRIBUTES_COMPARATOR

Method Detail

getNameAndAttributes

getType

clone

deepEquals

getDocument

getRootElement

getQName