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// $Header: /cvsroot/acdk/acdk/acdk_xml/src/org/xml/sax/ContentHandler.h,v 1.8 2005/02/05 10:45:38 kommer Exp $
// Documentation written by David Megginson
// NO WARRANTY! This class documentation is in the Public Domain.
#ifndef org_xml_sax_ContentHandler_h
#define org_xml_sax_ContentHandler_h
#include <acdk.h>
#include "SAXException.h"
#include "Locator.h"
#include "Attributes.h"
namespace org {
namespace xml {
namespace sax {
ACDK_DECL_INTERFACE(ContentHandler);
/**
* Receive notification of the logical content of a document.
*
* <blockquote>
* <em>This module, both source code and documentation, is in the
* Public Domain, and comes with <strong>NO WARRANTY</strong>.</em>
* See <a href='http://www.saxproject.org'>http://www.saxproject.org</a>
* for further information.
* </blockquote>
*
* <p>This is the main interface that most SAX applications
* implement: if the application needs to be informed of basic parsing
* events, it implements this interface and registers an instance with
* the SAX parser using the {@link org.xml.sax.XMLReader#setContentHandler
* setContentHandler} method. The parser uses the instance to report
* basic document-related events like the start and end of elements
* and character data.</p>
*
* <p>The order of events in this interface is very important, and
* mirrors the order of information in the document itself. For
* example, all of an element's content (character data, processing
* instructions, and/or subelements) will appear, in order, between
* the startElement event and the corresponding endElement event.</p>
*
* <p>This interface is similar to the now-deprecated SAX 1.0
* DocumentHandler interface, but it adds support for Namespaces
* and for reporting skipped entities (in non-validating XML
* processors).</p>
*
* <p>Implementors should note that there is also a Java class
* {@link java.net.ContentHandler ContentHandler} in the java.net
* package; that means that it's probably a bad idea to do</p>
*
* <blockquote>
* import java.net.*;
* import org.xml.sax.*;
* </blockquote>
*
* <p>In fact, "import ...*" is usually a sign of sloppy programming
* anyway, so the user should consider this a feature rather than a
* bug.</p>
*
* @since SAX 2.0
* @see org.xml.sax.XMLReader
* @see org.xml.sax.DTDHandler
* @see org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler
*/
class ACDK_ORG_XML_PUBLIC ContentHandler
ACDK_INTERFACEBASE
{
ACDK_WITH_METAINFO(ContentHandler)
public:
/**
* Receive an object for locating the origin of SAX document events.
*
* <p>SAX parsers are strongly encouraged (though not absolutely
* required) to supply a locator: if it does so, it must supply
* the locator to the application by invoking this method before
* invoking any of the other methods in the ContentHandler
* interface.</p>
*
* <p>The locator allows the application to determine the end
* position of any document-related event, even if the parser is
* not reporting an error. Typically, the application will
* use this information for reporting its own errors (such as
* character content that does not match an application's
* business rules). The information returned by the locator
* is probably not sufficient for use with a search engine.</p>
*
* <p>Note that the locator will return correct information only
* during the invocation of the events in this interface. The
* application should not attempt to use it at any other time.</p>
*
* @param locator An object that can return the location of
* any SAX document event.
* @see org.xml.sax.Locator
*/
virtual void setDocumentLocator(IN(RLocator) locator) = 0;
/**
* Receive notification of the beginning of a document.
*
* <p>The SAX parser will invoke this method only once, before any
* other event callbacks (except for {@link #setDocumentLocator
* setDocumentLocator}).</p>
*
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly
* wrapping another exception.
* @see #endDocument
*/
virtual void startDocument() THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* Receive notification of the end of a document.
*
* <p>The SAX parser will invoke this method only once, and it will
* be the last method invoked during the parse. The parser shall
* not invoke this method until it has either abandoned parsing
* (because of an unrecoverable error) or reached the end of
* input.</p>
*
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly
* wrapping another exception.
* @see #startDocument
*/
virtual void endDocument() THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* Begin the scope of a prefix-URI Namespace mapping.
*
* <p>The information from this event is not necessary for
* normal Namespace processing: the SAX XML reader will
* automatically replace prefixes for element and attribute
* names when the <code>http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces</code>
* feature is <var>true</var> (the default).</p>
*
* <p>There are cases, however, when applications need to
* use prefixes in character data or in attribute values,
* where they cannot safely be expanded automatically; the
* start/endPrefixMapping event supplies the information
* to the application to expand prefixes in those contexts
* itself, if necessary.</p>
*
* <p>Note that start/endPrefixMapping events are not
* guaranteed to be properly nested relative to each other:
* all startPrefixMapping events will occur immediately before the
* corresponding {@link #startElement startElement} event,
* and all {@link #endPrefixMapping endPrefixMapping}
* events will occur immediately after the corresponding
* {@link #endElement endElement} event,
* but their order is not otherwise
* guaranteed.</p>
*
* <p>There should never be start/endPrefixMapping events for the
* "xml" prefix, since it is predeclared and immutable.</p>
*
* @param prefix The Namespace prefix being declared.
* An empty string is used for the default element namespace,
* which has no prefix.
* @param uri The Namespace URI the prefix is mapped to.
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException The client may throw
* an exception during processing.
* @see #endPrefixMapping
* @see #startElement
*/
virtual void startPrefixMapping(IN(acdk::lang::RString) prefix, IN(acdk::lang::RString) uri) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* End the scope of a prefix-URI mapping.
*
* <p>See {@link #startPrefixMapping startPrefixMapping} for
* details. These events will always occur immediately after the
* corresponding {@link #endElement endElement} event, but the order of
* {@link #endPrefixMapping endPrefixMapping} events is not otherwise
* guaranteed.</p>
*
* @param prefix The prefix that was being mapped.
* This is the empty string when a default mapping scope ends.
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException The client may throw
* an exception during processing.
* @see #startPrefixMapping
* @see #endElement
*/
virtual void endPrefixMapping(IN(acdk::lang::RString) prefix) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* Receive notification of the beginning of an element.
*
* <p>The Parser will invoke this method at the beginning of every
* element in the XML document; there will be a corresponding
* {@link #endElement endElement} event for every startElement event
* (even when the element is empty). All of the element's content will be
* reported, in order, before the corresponding endElement
* event.</p>
*
* <p>This event allows up to three name components for each
* element:</p>
*
* <ol>
* <li>the Namespace URI;</li>
* <li>the local name; and</li>
* <li>the qualified (prefixed) name.</li>
* </ol>
*
* <p>Any or all of these may be provided, depending on the
* values of the <var>http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces</var>
* and the <var>http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes</var>
* properties:</p>
*
* <ul>
* <li>the Namespace URI and local name are required when
* the namespaces property is <var>true</var> (the default), and are
* optional when the namespaces property is <var>false</var> (if one is
* specified, both must be);</li>
* <li>the qualified name is required when the namespace-prefixes property
* is <var>true</var>, and is optional when the namespace-prefixes property
* is <var>false</var> (the default).</li>
* </ul>
*
* <p>Note that the attribute list provided will contain only
* attributes with explicit values (specified or defaulted):
* #IMPLIED attributes will be omitted. The attribute list
* will contain attributes used for Namespace declarations
* (xmlns* attributes) only if the
* <code>http://xml.org/sax/features/namespace-prefixes</code>
* property is true (it is false by default, and support for a
* true value is optional).</p>
*
* <p>Like {@link #characters characters()}, attribute values may have
* characters that need more than one <code>char</code> value. </p>
*
* @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if the
* element has no Namespace URI or if Namespace
* processing is not being performed.
* @param localName The local name (without prefix), or the
* empty string if Namespace processing is not being
* performed.
* @param qName The qualified name (with prefix), or the
* empty string if qualified names are not available.
* @param atts The attributes attached to the element. If
* there are no attributes, it shall be an empty
* Attributes object.
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly
* wrapping another exception.
* @see #endElement
* @see org.xml.sax.Attributes
*/
virtual void startElement(IN(acdk::lang::RString) uri, IN(acdk::lang::RString) localName, IN(acdk::lang::RString) qName, IN(RAttributes) atts) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* Receive notification of the end of an element.
*
* <p>The SAX parser will invoke this method at the end of every
* element in the XML document; there will be a corresponding
* {@link #startElement startElement} event for every endElement
* event (even when the element is empty).</p>
*
* <p>For information on the names, see startElement.</p>
*
* @param uri The Namespace URI, or the empty string if the
* element has no Namespace URI or if Namespace
* processing is not being performed.
* @param localName The local name (without prefix), or the
* empty string if Namespace processing is not being
* performed.
* @param qName The qualified XML 1.0 name (with prefix), or the
* empty string if qualified names are not available.
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly
* wrapping another exception.
*/
virtual void endElement(IN(acdk::lang::RString) uri, IN(acdk::lang::RString) localName, IN(acdk::lang::RString) qName) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
//virtual void characters(IN(RcharArray), int start, int length) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* Receive notification of character data.
*
* <p>The Parser will call this method to report each chunk of
* character data. SAX parsers may return all contiguous character
* data in a single chunk, or they may split it into several
* chunks; however, all of the characters in any single event
* must come from the same external entity so that the Locator
* provides useful information.</p>
*
* <p>The application must not attempt to read from the array
* outside of the specified range.</p>
*
* <p>Individual characters may consist of more than one Java
* <code>char</code> value. There are two important cases where this
* happens, because characters can't be represented in just sixteen bits.
* In one case, characters are represented in a <em>Surrogate Pair</em>,
* using two special Unicode values. Such characters are in the so-called
* "Astral Planes", with a code point above U+FFFF. A second case involves
* composite characters, such as a base character combining with one or
* more accent characters. </p>
*
* <p> Your code should not assume that algorithms using
* <code>char</code>-at-a-time idioms will be working in character
* units; in some cases they will split characters. This is relevant
* wherever XML permits arbitrary characters, such as attribute values,
* processing instruction data, and comments as well as in data reported
* from this method. It's also generally relevant whenever Java code
* manipulates internationalized text; the issue isn't unique to XML.</p>
*
* <p>Note that some parsers will report whitespace in element
* content using the {@link #ignorableWhitespace ignorableWhitespace}
* method rather than this one (validating parsers <em>must</em>
* do so).</p>
*
* @param ch The characters from the XML document.
* @param start The start position in the array.
* @param length The number of characters to read from the array.
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly
* wrapping another exception.
* @see #ignorableWhitespace
* @see org.xml.sax.Locator
*/
virtual void characters(IN(acdk::lang::RString) chars) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* Receive notification of ignorable whitespace in element content.
*
* <p>Validating Parsers must use this method to report each chunk
* of whitespace in element content (see the W3C XML 1.0 recommendation,
* section 2.10): non-validating parsers may also use this method
* if they are capable of parsing and using content models.</p>
*
* <p>SAX parsers may return all contiguous whitespace in a single
* chunk, or they may split it into several chunks; however, all of
* the characters in any single event must come from the same
* external entity, so that the Locator provides useful
* information.</p>
*
* <p>The application must not attempt to read from the array
* outside of the specified range.</p>
*
* @param ch The characters from the XML document.
* @param start The start position in the array.
* @param length The number of characters to read from the array.
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly
* wrapping another exception.
* @see #characters
*/
virtual void ignorableWhitespace(IN(acdk::lang::RString) chars) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* Receive notification of a processing instruction.
*
* <p>The Parser will invoke this method once for each processing
* instruction found: note that processing instructions may occur
* before or after the main document element.</p>
*
* <p>A SAX parser must never report an XML declaration (XML 1.0,
* section 2.8) or a text declaration (XML 1.0, section 4.3.1)
* using this method.</p>
*
* <p>Like {@link #characters characters()}, processing instruction
* data may have characters that need more than one <code>char</code>
* value. </p>
*
* @param target The processing instruction target.
* @param data The processing instruction data, or null if
* none was supplied. The data does not include any
* whitespace separating it from the target.
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly
* wrapping another exception.
*/
virtual void processingInstruction(IN(acdk::lang::RString) target, IN(acdk::lang::RString) data) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
/**
* Receive notification of a skipped entity.
* This is not called for entity references within markup constructs
* such as element start tags or markup declarations. (The XML
* recommendation requires reporting skipped external entities.
* SAX also reports internal entity expansion/non-expansion, except
* within markup constructs.)
*
* <p>The Parser will invoke this method each time the entity is
* skipped. Non-validating processors may skip entities if they
* have not seen the declarations (because, for example, the
* entity was declared in an external DTD subset). All processors
* may skip external entities, depending on the values of the
* <code>http://xml.org/sax/features/external-general-entities</code>
* and the
* <code>http://xml.org/sax/features/external-parameter-entities</code>
* properties.</p>
*
* @param name The name of the skipped entity. If it is a
* parameter entity, the name will begin with '%', and if
* it is the external DTD subset, it will be the string
* "[dtd]".
* @exception org.xml.sax.SAXException Any SAX exception, possibly
* wrapping another exception.
*/
virtual void skippedEntity(IN(acdk::lang::RString) name) THROWS1(RSAXException) = 0;
};
} // namespace org
} // namespace xml
} // namespace sax
#endif //org_xml_sax_ContentHandler_h |
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