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DOM::Entity Class Reference

This interface represents an entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document. More...

#include <dom_xml.h>

Inheritance diagram for DOM::Entity:

DOM::Node List of all members.

Public Methods

Entity & operator= (const Node &other)
DOMString publicId () const
 The public identifier associated with the entity, if specified.

DOMString systemId () const
 The system identifier associated with the entity, if specified.

DOMString notationName () const
 For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity.


Detailed Description

This interface represents an entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document.

Note that this models the entity itself not the entity declaration. Entity declaration modeling has been left for a later Level of the DOM specification.

The nodeName attribute that is inherited from Node contains the name of the entity.

An XML processor may choose to completely expand entities before the structure model is passed to the DOM; in this case there will be no EntityReference nodes in the document tree.

XML does not mandate that a non-validating XML processor read and process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in external parameter entities. This means that parsed entities declared in the external subset need not be expanded by some classes of applications, and that the replacement value of the entity may not be available. When the replacement value is available, the corresponding Entity node's child list represents the structure of that replacement text. Otherwise, the child list is empty.

The resolution of the children of the Entity (the replacement value) may be lazily evaluated; actions by the user (such as calling the childNodes method on the Entity Node) are assumed to trigger the evaluation.

The DOM Level 1 does not support editing Entity nodes; if a user wants to make changes to the contents of an Entity , every related EntityReference node has to be replaced in the structure model by a clone of the Entity 's contents, and then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead. All the descendants of an Entity node are readonly.

An Entity node does not have any parent.

Definition at line 125 of file dom_xml.h.


Member Function Documentation

DOMString Entity::publicId  
 

The public identifier associated with the entity, if specified.

If the public identifier was not specified, this is null .

Definition at line 101 of file dom_xml.cpp.

DOMString Entity::systemId  
 

The system identifier associated with the entity, if specified.

If the system identifier was not specified, this is null .

Definition at line 109 of file dom_xml.cpp.

DOMString Entity::notationName  
 

For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity.

For parsed entities, this is null .

Definition at line 117 of file dom_xml.cpp.


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