net.metanotion.util
Class ContentHandlerStack

java.lang.Object
  extended by net.metanotion.util.ContentHandlerStack
All Implemented Interfaces:
org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

public final class ContentHandlerStack
extends java.lang.Object
implements org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

This adds a "stack" like functionality on top of a normal SAX ContentHandler for namespaces and element closures. Synthesizing a stream of SAX events from a "hierarchy" of sources involves juggling namespaces, and potentially erroneous layers that will not properly close tags. Also, only 1 start and end document event should occur. This class provides a "stack" metaphor on top of another ContentHandler. push() preserves the current set of prefix mappings, and will ensure that "current" context will silently drop start/end Document calls, pop() restores the set of prefix mappings, and issues endElement events for any "dangling" tags.


Constructor Summary
ContentHandlerStack(org.xml.sax.ContentHandler ch)
           
 
Method Summary
 void characters(char[] ch, int start, int length)
           
 void endDocument()
           
 void endElement(java.lang.String uri, java.lang.String localName, java.lang.String qName)
           
 void endPrefixMapping(java.lang.String prefix)
           
 void ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch, int start, int length)
           
 void pop()
           
 void processingInstruction(java.lang.String target, java.lang.String data)
           
 void push()
           
 void setDocumentLocator(org.xml.sax.Locator locator)
           
 void skippedEntity(java.lang.String name)
           
 void startDocument()
           
 void startElement(java.lang.String uri, java.lang.String localName, java.lang.String qName, org.xml.sax.Attributes atts)
           
 void startPrefixMapping(java.lang.String prefix, java.lang.String uri)
           
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

ContentHandlerStack

public ContentHandlerStack(org.xml.sax.ContentHandler ch)
Method Detail

push

public void push()
          throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

pop

public void pop()
         throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

endDocument

public void endDocument()
                 throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
endDocument in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

endElement

public void endElement(java.lang.String uri,
                       java.lang.String localName,
                       java.lang.String qName)
                throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
endElement in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

endPrefixMapping

public void endPrefixMapping(java.lang.String prefix)
                      throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
endPrefixMapping in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

startDocument

public void startDocument()
                   throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
startDocument in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

startElement

public void startElement(java.lang.String uri,
                         java.lang.String localName,
                         java.lang.String qName,
                         org.xml.sax.Attributes atts)
                  throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
startElement in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

startPrefixMapping

public void startPrefixMapping(java.lang.String prefix,
                               java.lang.String uri)
                        throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
startPrefixMapping in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

characters

public void characters(char[] ch,
                       int start,
                       int length)
                throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
characters in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

ignorableWhitespace

public void ignorableWhitespace(char[] ch,
                                int start,
                                int length)
                         throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
ignorableWhitespace in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

processingInstruction

public void processingInstruction(java.lang.String target,
                                  java.lang.String data)
                           throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
processingInstruction in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException

setDocumentLocator

public void setDocumentLocator(org.xml.sax.Locator locator)
Specified by:
setDocumentLocator in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

skippedEntity

public void skippedEntity(java.lang.String name)
                   throws org.xml.sax.SAXException
Specified by:
skippedEntity in interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler
Throws:
org.xml.sax.SAXException