com.novell.xml.dom
Interface Namespace

All Superinterfaces:

Node

All Known Implementing Classes:

NamespaceImpl, XPathNamespaceNode

public interface Namespace

extends Node

Extension to DOM level 1 interfaces This represents an XPath namespace node

Field Summary

static short

NAMESPACE_NODE Constant value similar to DOM-defined constants for node type.

Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Method Summary

NamespaceName

getNamespaceName() Return the NamespaceName object for this namespace node.

Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

appendChild, cloneNode, getAttributes, getChildNodes, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isSupported, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix

Field Detail

NAMESPACE_NODE

public static final short NAMESPACE_NODE

Constant value similar to DOM-defined constants for node type. This value is returned by getNodeType()

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Method Detail

getNamespaceName

public NamespaceName getNamespaceName()

Return the NamespaceName object for this namespace node. This should generally be used in preference to getNodeValue() (which returns the string value of the uri) because NamespaceName objects can be compared much more efficiently than can strings.

Returns:

The NamespaceName of this namespace node