org.jdom.adapters
Interface DOMAdapter

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractDOMAdapter

public abstract interface DOMAdapter

DOMAdapter

This interface defines wrapper behavior for obtaining a DOM Document object from a DOM parser.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Brett McLaughlin, Jason Hunter

Method Summary

org.w3c.dom.Document	createDocument() This creates an empty Document object based on a specific parser implementation.
org.w3c.dom.Document	getDocument(java.io.InputStream in, boolean validate) This creates a new Document from an existing InputStream by letting a DOM parser handle parsing using the supplied stream.
org.w3c.dom.Document	getDocument(java.lang.String filename, boolean validate) This creates a new Document from a given filename by letting a DOM parser handle parsing from the file.

Method Detail

getDocument

public org.w3c.dom.Document getDocument(java.lang.String filename,
                                        boolean validate)
                                 throws java.io.IOException

This creates a new Document from a given filename by letting a DOM parser handle parsing from the file.

Parameters:

filename - file to parse.

validate - boolean to indicate if validation should occur.

Returns:

Document - instance ready for use.

Throws:

IOException - when errors occur in parsing.

getDocument

public org.w3c.dom.Document getDocument(java.io.InputStream in,
                                        boolean validate)
                                 throws java.io.IOException

This creates a new Document from an existing InputStream by letting a DOM parser handle parsing using the supplied stream.

Parameters:

in - InputStream to parse.

validate - boolean to indicate if validation should occur.

Returns:

Document - instance ready for use.

Throws:

IOException - when errors occur in parsing.

createDocument

public org.w3c.dom.Document createDocument()
                                    throws java.io.IOException

This creates an empty Document object based on a specific parser implementation.

Returns:

Document - created DOM Document.

Throws:

IOException - when errors occur.