org.apache.xerces.dom

Class DeferredEntityReferenceImpl

Implemented Interfaces:
Cloneable, DeferredNode, org.w3c.dom.EntityReference, org.w3c.dom.events.EventTarget, org.w3c.dom.Node, org.w3c.dom.NodeList, Serializable

public class DeferredEntityReferenceImpl
extends EntityReferenceImpl
implements DeferredNode

EntityReference models the XML &entityname; syntax, when used for entities defined by the DOM. Entities hardcoded into XML, such as character entities, should instead have been translated into text by the code which generated the DOM tree.

An XML processor has the alternative of fully expanding Entities into the normal document tree. If it does so, no EntityReference nodes will appear.

Similarly, non-validating XML processors are not required to read or process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in external parameter entities. Hence, some applications may not make the replacement value available for Parsed Entities of these types.

EntityReference behaves as a read-only node, and the children of the EntityReference (which reflect those of the Entity, and should also be read-only) give its replacement value, if any. They are supposed to automagically stay in synch if the DocumentType is updated with new values for the Entity.

The defined behavior makes efficient storage difficult for the DOM implementor. We can't just look aside to the Entity's definition in the DocumentType since those nodes have the wrong parent (unless we can come up with a clever "imaginary parent" mechanism). We must at least appear to clone those children... which raises the issue of keeping the reference synchronized with its parent. This leads me back to the "cached image of centrally defined data" solution, much as I dislike it.

For now I have decided, since REC-DOM-Level-1-19980818 doesn't cover this in much detail, that synchronization doesn't have to be considered while the user is deep in the tree. That is, if you're looking within one of the EntityReferennce's children and the Entity changes, you won't be informed; instead, you will continue to access the same object -- which may or may not still be part of the tree. This is the same behavior that obtains elsewhere in the DOM if the subtree you're looking at is deleted from its parent, so it's acceptable here. (If it really bothers folks, we could set things up so deleted subtrees are walked and marked invalid, but that's not part of the DOM's defined behavior.)

As a result, only the EntityReference itself has to be aware of changes in the Entity. And it can take advantage of the same structure-change-monitoring code I implemented to support DeepNodeList.

Version:
$Id: DeferredEntityReferenceImpl.java 320096 2004-10-05 17:12:51Z mrglavas $
Since:
PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.

Field Summary

protected int
fNodeIndex
Node index.

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.EntityReferenceImpl

baseURI, name

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode

fNodeListCache, firstChild, ownerDocument

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode

nextSibling, previousSibling

Fields inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl

DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IS_CONTAINED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, ELEMENT_DEFINITION_NODE, FIRSTCHILD, HASSTRING, ID, IGNORABLEWS, NORMALIZED, OWNED, READONLY, SPECIFIED, SYNCCHILDREN, SYNCDATA, TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR, TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT, TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT, TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING, TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING, TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE, flags, ownerNode

Fields inherited from interface org.apache.xerces.dom.DeferredNode

TYPE_NODE

Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Method Summary

int
getNodeIndex()
Returns the node index.
protected void
synchronizeChildren()
Synchronize the children.
protected void
synchronizeData()
Synchronize the entity data.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.EntityReferenceImpl

cloneNode, getBaseURI, getEntityRefValue, getNodeName, getNodeType, setBaseURI, setReadOnly, synchronizeChildren

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ParentNode

cloneNode, getChildNodes, getChildNodesUnoptimized, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLength, getOwnerDocument, getTextContent, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isEqualNode, item, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setOwnerDocument, setReadOnly, setTextContent, synchronizeChildren

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode

cloneNode, getNextSibling, getParentNode, getPreviousSibling

Methods inherited from class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl

addEventListener, appendChild, changed, changes, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, compareTreePosition, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getContainer, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLength, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeNumber, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getReadOnly, getTextContent, getUserData, getUserData, getUserDataRecord, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, item, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, needsSyncChildren, normalize, removeChild, removeEventListener, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setOwnerDocument, setPrefix, setReadOnly, setTextContent, setUserData, setUserData, synchronizeData, toString

Field Details

fNodeIndex

protected int fNodeIndex
Node index.

Method Details

getNodeIndex

public int getNodeIndex()
Returns the node index.
Specified by:
getNodeIndex in interface DeferredNode

synchronizeChildren

protected void synchronizeChildren()
Synchronize the children.
Overrides:
synchronizeChildren in interface EntityReferenceImpl

synchronizeData

protected void synchronizeData()
Synchronize the entity data. This is special because of the way that the "fast" version stores the information.
Overrides:
synchronizeData in interface NodeImpl

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