http://commons.apache.org/digester/: The Digester package lets you configure an XML to Java object mapping module which triggers certain actions called rules whenever a particular pattern of nested XML elements is recognized. (The Apache Software Foundation)
  • Bradley M. Handy
  • Christopher Lenz
  • Ted Husted
  • David H. Martin
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  • Simone Tripodi 
/* $Id: RuleSetBase.java 992060 2010-09-02 19:09:47Z simonetripodi $
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package org.apache.commons.digester;



Convenience base class that implements the RuleSet interface. Concrete implementations should list all of their actual rule creation logic in the addRuleSet() implementation.


/**
 * <p>Convenience base class that implements the {@link RuleSet} interface.
 * Concrete implementations should list all of their actual rule creation
 * logic in the <code>addRuleSet()</code> implementation.</p>
 */

public abstract class RuleSetBase implements RuleSet {


    // ----------------------------------------------------- Instance Variables


    
The namespace URI that all Rule instances created by this RuleSet
will be associated with.

/**
     * The namespace URI that all Rule instances created by this RuleSet
     * will be associated with.
     */
    protected String namespaceURI = null;


    // ------------------------------------------------------------- Properties


    
Return the namespace URI that will be applied to all Rule instances
created from this RuleSet.

/**
     * Return the namespace URI that will be applied to all Rule instances
     * created from this RuleSet.
     */
    public String getNamespaceURI() {

        return (this.namespaceURI);

    }


    // --------------------------------------------------------- Public Methods


    
Add the set of Rule instances defined in this RuleSet to the
specified Digester instance, associating them with
our namespace URI (if any).  This method should only be called
by a Digester instance.

Params:
  • digester – Digester instance to which the new Rule instances
 should be added.
/**
     * Add the set of Rule instances defined in this RuleSet to the
     * specified <code>Digester</code> instance, associating them with
     * our namespace URI (if any).  This method should only be called
     * by a Digester instance.
     *
     * @param digester Digester instance to which the new Rule instances
     *  should be added.
     */
    public abstract void addRuleInstances(Digester digester);


}