src/share/jaxws_classes/javax/xml/soap/Node.java

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25
26 package javax.xml.soap;
27
28 /**
29 * A representation of a node (element) in an XML document.
30 * This interface extnends the standard DOM Node interface with methods for
31 * getting and setting the value of a node, for
32 * getting and setting the parent of a node, and for removing a node.
33 */
34 public interface Node extends org.w3c.dom.Node {
35 /**
36 * Returns the value of this node if this is a <code>Text</code> node or the
37 * value of the immediate child of this node otherwise.
38 * If there is an immediate child of this <code>Node</code> that it is a
39 * <code>Text</code> node then it's value will be returned. If there is
40 * more than one <code>Text</code> node then the value of the first
41 * <code>Text</code> Node will be returned.
42 * Otherwise <code>null</code> is returned.
43 *
44 * @return a <code>String</code> with the text of this node if this is a
45 * <code>Text</code> node or the text contained by the first
46 * immediate child of this <code>Node</code> object that is a
47 * <code>Text</code> object if such a child exists;
48 * <code>null</code> otherwise.
49 */
50 public String getValue();
51
52 /**
53 * If this is a Text node then this method will set its value,
54 * otherwise it sets the value of the immediate (Text) child of this node.
55 * The value of the immediate child of this node can be set only if, there is
56 * one child node and that node is a <code>Text</code> node, or if
57 * there are no children in which case a child <code>Text</code> node will be
58 * created.
59 *
60 * @exception IllegalStateException if the node is not a <code>Text</code>
61 * node and either has more than one child node or has a child
62 * node that is not a <code>Text</code> node.
63 *
64 * @since SAAJ 1.2
65 */
66 public void setValue(String value);
67
68 /**
69 * Sets the parent of this <code>Node</code> object to the given
70 * <code>SOAPElement</code> object.
71 *
72 * @param parent the <code>SOAPElement</code> object to be set as
73 * the parent of this <code>Node</code> object
74 *
75 * @exception SOAPException if there is a problem in setting the
76 * parent to the given element
77 * @see #getParentElement
78 */
79 public void setParentElement(SOAPElement parent) throws SOAPException;
80
81 /**
82 * Returns the parent element of this <code>Node</code> object.
83 * This method can throw an <code>UnsupportedOperationException</code>
84 * if the tree is not kept in memory.
85 *
86 * @return the <code>SOAPElement</code> object that is the parent of
87 * this <code>Node</code> object or <code>null</code> if this
88 * <code>Node</code> object is root
89 *
90 * @exception UnsupportedOperationException if the whole tree is not
91 * kept in memory
92 * @see #setParentElement
93 */
94 public SOAPElement getParentElement();
95
96 /**
97 * Removes this <code>Node</code> object from the tree.
98 */
99 public void detachNode();
100
101 /**
102 * Notifies the implementation that this <code>Node</code>
103 * object is no longer being used by the application and that the
104 * implementation is free to reuse this object for nodes that may
105 * be created later.
106 * <P>
107 * Calling the method <code>recycleNode</code> implies that the method
108 * <code>detachNode</code> has been called previously.
109 */
110 public void recycleNode();
111
112 }

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