com.novell.xsl.process
Class ElementMatch

java.lang.Object
  com.novell.xsl.process.ElementMatch

All Implemented Interfaces:

Comparable

public class ElementMatch

extends Object

implements Comparable

This class is used for matching element names for the purpose of whitespace stripping.

Constructor Summary

ElementMatch(WildcardName name, boolean strip, int importance, int number)
Construct an ElementMatch object for the passed name

Method Summary

int	compareTo(Object obj) Compares this ElementMatch with another ElementMatch for conflict resolution order.
void	dump(PrintWriter out, int indent) Dumps this object to the specified output stream.
int	getNumber() Return this ElementMatch's sequence number
boolean	isStrip() Return true if this match object is from a strip-space element
boolean	matches(Element element) Return true if the passed element matches the name represented by this ElementMatch object.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ElementMatch

public ElementMatch(WildcardName name,
                    boolean strip,
                    int importance,
                    int number)

Construct an ElementMatch object for the passed name

Parameters:

name - The name or wildcard name of the element(s) to match

strip - True if this is from a strip-space element, false if this is from a preserve-space element.

importance - The import precedence of this match (The import precedence of the xsl:strip-space or xsl-preserve-space element that contains the element WildcardName item).

number - The relative position of this in the stylesheet

Method Detail

matches

public boolean matches(Element element)

Return true if the passed element matches the name represented by this ElementMatch object.

Parameters:

element - The element to match

Returns:

True if the element matches, false otherwise.

isStrip

public boolean isStrip()

Return true if this match object is from a strip-space element

Returns:

True if this match object is from a strip-space element

compareTo

public int compareTo(Object obj)

Compares this ElementMatch with another ElementMatch for conflict resolution order.

Specified by:

compareTo in interface Comparable

Parameters:

obj - the other ElementMatch to compare with; it is declared as an Object to conform with the Comparable interface

Returns:

a negative integer, zero, or a positive integer depending on whether conflict resolution would prefer this rule, neither rule (a tie), or the other rule

Throws:

ClassCastException - if the specified object is not a ElementMatch

getNumber

public int getNumber()

Return this ElementMatch's sequence number

Returns:

The sequence number

dump

public void dump(PrintWriter out,
                 int indent)

Dumps this object to the specified output stream.

Parameters:

out - the output stream to write to

indent - number of tabs to indent