org.apache.avalon.excalibur.xml
Interface Parser

All Superinterfaces:

org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component

All Known Implementing Classes:

JaxpParser, XercesParser

public interface Parser

extends org.apache.avalon.framework.component.Component

The parser can be used to parse any XML document given by a InputSource object. It can either send XML events or create a DOM from the parsed document.

Version:

CVS $Revision: 1.5 $ $Date: 2001/12/11 09:53:38 $

Author:

Carsten Ziegeler

Field Summary

static java.lang.String

ROLE

Method Summary

void	parse(org.xml.sax.InputSource in, org.xml.sax.ContentHandler consumer) Parse the InputSource and send SAX events to the consumer.
org.w3c.dom.Document	parseDocument(org.xml.sax.InputSource in) Parse the InputSource and create a DOM out of it.

Field Detail

ROLE

public static final java.lang.String ROLE

Method Detail

parse

public void parse(org.xml.sax.InputSource in,
                  org.xml.sax.ContentHandler consumer)
           throws org.xml.sax.SAXException,
                  java.io.IOException

Parse the InputSource and send SAX events to the consumer. Attention: the consumer can either be an XMLConsumer or implement the LexicalHandler as well. The parse should take care of this.

parseDocument

public org.w3c.dom.Document parseDocument(org.xml.sax.InputSource in)
                                   throws org.xml.sax.SAXException,
                                          java.io.IOException

Parse the InputSource and create a DOM out of it.