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package org.apache.xerces.dom;

import org.w3c.dom.DocumentFragment;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document object. It is very common to want to be able to extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a Document object could fulfil this role, a Document object can potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation... and in DOM Level 1, nodes aren't allowed to cross Document boundaries anyway. What is really needed for this is a very lightweight object. DocumentFragment is such an object.

Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node.

The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the document. DocumentFragment do not need to be well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one child and that child node could be a Text node. Such a structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document.

When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a Document (or indeed any other Node that may take children) the children of the DocumentFragment and not the DocumentFragment itself are inserted into the Node. This makes the DocumentFragment very useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the DocumentFragment acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the standard methods from the Node interface, such as insertBefore() and appendChild().

@xerces.internal
Version:$Id: DocumentFragmentImpl.java 447266 2006-09-18 05:57:49Z mrglavas $
Since: PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.
/** * DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document * object. It is very common to want to be able to extract a portion * of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a * document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or * rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable * to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite * natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a * Document object could fulfil this role, a Document object can * potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying * implementation... and in DOM Level 1, nodes aren't allowed to cross * Document boundaries anyway. What is really needed for this is a * very lightweight object. DocumentFragment is such an object. * <P> * Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as * children of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment objects as * arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the * DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node. * <P> * The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more nodes * representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of * the document. DocumentFragment do not need to be well-formed XML * documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon * well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top * nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one child * and that child node could be a Text node. Such a structure model * represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document. * <P> * When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a Document (or indeed any * other Node that may take children) the children of the * DocumentFragment and not the DocumentFragment itself are inserted * into the Node. This makes the DocumentFragment very useful when the * user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the DocumentFragment * acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the * standard methods from the Node interface, such as insertBefore() * and appendChild(). * * @xerces.internal * * @version $Id: DocumentFragmentImpl.java 447266 2006-09-18 05:57:49Z mrglavas $ * @since PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818. */
public class DocumentFragmentImpl extends ParentNode implements DocumentFragment { // // Constants //
Serialization version.
/** Serialization version. */
static final long serialVersionUID = -7596449967279236746L; // // Constructors //
Factory constructor.
/** Factory constructor. */
public DocumentFragmentImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc) { super(ownerDoc); }
Constructor for serialization.
/** Constructor for serialization. */
public DocumentFragmentImpl() {} // // Node methods //
A short integer indicating what type of node this is. The named constants for this value are defined in the org.w3c.dom.Node interface.
/** * A short integer indicating what type of node this is. The named * constants for this value are defined in the org.w3c.dom.Node interface. */
public short getNodeType() { return Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE; }
Returns the node name.
/** Returns the node name. */
public String getNodeName() { return "#document-fragment"; }
Override default behavior to call normalize() on this Node's children. It is up to implementors or Node to override normalize() to take action.
/** * Override default behavior to call normalize() on this Node's * children. It is up to implementors or Node to override normalize() * to take action. */
public void normalize() { // No need to normalize if already normalized. if (isNormalized()) { return; } if (needsSyncChildren()) { synchronizeChildren(); } ChildNode kid, next; for (kid = firstChild; kid != null; kid = next) { next = kid.nextSibling; // If kid is a text node, we need to check for one of two // conditions: // 1) There is an adjacent text node // 2) There is no adjacent text node, but kid is // an empty text node. if ( kid.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE ) { // If an adjacent text node, merge it with kid if ( next!=null && next.getNodeType() == Node.TEXT_NODE ) { ((Text)kid).appendData(next.getNodeValue()); removeChild( next ); next = kid; // Don't advance; there might be another. } else { // If kid is empty, remove it if ( kid.getNodeValue() == null || kid.getNodeValue().length() == 0 ) { removeChild( kid ); } } } kid.normalize(); } isNormalized(true); } } // class DocumentFragmentImpl