Element Class Reference

An XML element. A node in the DOM tree. More...

#include <xml.hh>

Inheritance diagram for Element:

Collaboration diagram for Element:

Public Member Functions
	Element (Element *par)
	Constructor given a parent Element.
	~Element (void)
	Destructor.
void	setName (const string &nm)
	Set the local name of the element.
void	addContent (const char *str, int4 start, int4 length)
	Append new character content to this element. More...
void	addChild (Element *child)
	Add a new child Element to the model, with this as the parent. More...
void	addAttribute (const string &nm, const string &vl)
	Add a new name/value attribute pair to this element. More...
Element *	getParent (void) const
	Get the parent Element.
const string &	getName (void) const
	Get the local name of this element.
const List &	getChildren (void) const
	Get the list of child elements.
const string &	getContent (void) const
	Get the character content of this element.
const string &	getAttributeValue (const string &nm) const
	Get an attribute value by name. More...
int4	getNumAttributes (void) const
	Get the number of attributes for this element.
const string &	getAttributeName (int4 i) const
	Get the name of the i-th attribute.
const string &	getAttributeValue (int4 i) const
	Get the value of the i-th attribute.

Protected Attributes
Element *	parent
	The parent Element (or null)
List	children
	A list of child Element objects.

Detailed Description

An XML element. A node in the DOM tree.

This is the main node for the in-memory representation of the XML (DOM) tree.

Member Function Documentation

addAttribute()

void Element::addAttribute ( const string &  nm, const string &  vl  )

inline

Add a new name/value attribute pair to this element.

Parameters

nm	is the name of the attribute
vl	is the value of the attribute

addChild()

void Element::addChild ( Element *  child )

inline

Add a new child Element to the model, with this as the parent.

Parameters

child

is the new child Element

addContent()

void Element::addContent ( const char *  str, int4  start, int4  length  )

inline

Append new character content to this element.

Parameters

str	is an array of character data
start	is the index of the first character to append
length	is the number of characters to append

getAttributeValue()

const string& Element::getAttributeValue

(

const string &

nm

)

const

Get an attribute value by name.

Look up the value for the given attribute name and return it. An exception is thrown if the attribute does not exist.

Parameters

nm	is the name of the attribute

Returns

the corresponding attribute value

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• xml.hh