DOMCharacterData Class Referenceabstract

The `DOMCharacterData` interface extends DOMNode with a set of attributes and methods for accessing character data in the DOM. More...

Inheritance diagram for DOMCharacterData:

## Public Member Functions

Destructor
virtual | ~DOMCharacterData ()
| Destructor. More...
Functions introduced in DOM Level 1
virtual const XMLCh * | getData () const =0
| Returns the character data of the node that implements this interface. More...
virtual XMLSize_t | getLength () const =0
| Returns the number of characters that are available through `data` and the `substringData` method below. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | substringData (XMLSize_t offset, XMLSize_t count) const =0
| Extracts a range of data from the node. More...
virtual void | appendData (const XMLCh *arg)=0
| Append the string to the end of the character data of the node. More...
virtual void | insertData (XMLSize_t offset, const XMLCh *arg)=0
| Insert a string at the specified character offset. More...
virtual void | deleteData (XMLSize_t offset, XMLSize_t count)=0
| Remove a range of characters from the node. More...
virtual void | replaceData (XMLSize_t offset, XMLSize_t count, const XMLCh *arg)=0
| Replace the characters starting at the specified character offset with the specified string. More...
virtual void | setData (const XMLCh *data)=0
| Sets the character data of the node that implements this interface. More...
Public Member Functions inherited from DOMNode
virtual | ~DOMNode ()
| Destructor. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getNodeName () const =0
| The name of this node, depending on its type; see the table above. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getNodeValue () const =0
| Gets the value of this node, depending on its type. More...
virtual NodeType | getNodeType () const =0
| An enum value representing the type of the underlying object. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getParentNode () const =0
| Gets the parent of this node. More...
virtual DOMNodeList * | getChildNodes () const =0
| Gets a `DOMNodeList` that contains all children of this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getFirstChild () const =0
| Gets the first child of this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getLastChild () const =0
| Gets the last child of this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getPreviousSibling () const =0
| Gets the node immediately preceding this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | getNextSibling () const =0
| Gets the node immediately following this node. More...
virtual DOMNamedNodeMap * | getAttributes () const =0
| Gets a `DOMNamedNodeMap` containing the attributes of this node (if it is an `DOMElement`) or `null` otherwise. More...
virtual DOMDocument * | getOwnerDocument () const =0
| Gets the `DOMDocument` object associated with this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | cloneNode (bool deep) const =0
| Returns a duplicate of this node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | insertBefore (DOMNode *newChild, DOMNode *refChild)=0
| Inserts the node `newChild` before the existing child node `refChild`. More...
virtual DOMNode * | replaceChild (DOMNode *newChild, DOMNode *oldChild)=0
| Replaces the child node `oldChild` with `newChild` in the list of children, and returns the `oldChild` node. More...
virtual DOMNode * | removeChild (DOMNode *oldChild)=0
| Removes the child node indicated by `oldChild` from the list of children, and returns it. More...
virtual DOMNode * | appendChild (DOMNode *newChild)=0
| Adds the node `newChild` to the end of the list of children of this node. More...
virtual bool | hasChildNodes () const =0
| This is a convenience method to allow easy determination of whether a node has any children. More...
virtual void | setNodeValue (const XMLCh *nodeValue)=0
| Sets the value of the node. More...
virtual void | normalize ()=0
| Puts all `DOMText` nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this `DOMNode`, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only markup (e.g., tags, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates `DOMText` nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent `DOMText` nodes nor empty `DOMText` nodes. More...
virtual bool | isSupported (const XMLCh *feature, const XMLCh *version) const =0
| Tests whether the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and that feature is supported by this node. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getNamespaceURI () const =0
| Get the namespace URI of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getPrefix () const =0
| Get the namespace prefix of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getLocalName () const =0
| Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node. More...
virtual void | setPrefix (const XMLCh *prefix)=0
| Set the namespace prefix of this node. More...
virtual bool | hasAttributes () const =0
| Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes. More...
virtual bool | isSameNode (const DOMNode *other) const =0
| Returns whether this node is the same node as the given one. More...
virtual bool | isEqualNode (const DOMNode *arg) const =0
| Tests whether two nodes are equal. More...
virtual void * | setUserData (const XMLCh *key, void *data, DOMUserDataHandler *handler)=0
| Associate an object to a key on this node. More...
virtual void * | getUserData (const XMLCh *key) const =0
| Retrieves the object associated to a key on a this node. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getBaseURI () const =0
| The absolute base URI of this node or `null` if undefined. More...
virtual short | compareDocumentPosition (const DOMNode *other) const =0
| Compares the reference node, i.e. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | getTextContent () const =0
| WARNING: This method is known to be buggy and does not produce accurate results under a variety of conditions. More...
virtual void | setTextContent (const XMLCh *textContent)=0
| This attribute removes any possible children this node may have and, if the new string is not empty or null, replaced by a single `DOMText` node containing the string this attribute is set to. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | lookupPrefix (const XMLCh *namespaceURI) const =0
| Look up the prefix associated to the given namespace URI, starting from this node. More...
virtual bool | isDefaultNamespace (const XMLCh *namespaceURI) const =0
| This method checks if the specified `namespaceURI` is the default namespace or not. More...
virtual const XMLCh * | lookupNamespaceURI (const XMLCh *prefix) const =0
| Look up the namespace URI associated to the given prefix, starting from this node. More...
virtual void * | getFeature (const XMLCh *feature, const XMLCh *version) const =0
| This method makes available a `DOMNode`'s specialized interface. More...
virtual void | release ()=0
| Called to indicate that this Node (and its associated children) is no longer in use and that the implementation may relinquish any resources associated with it and its associated children. More...

## Protected Member Functions

Hidden constructors
| DOMCharacterData ()
| DOMCharacterData (const DOMCharacterData &other)
Protected Member Functions inherited from DOMNode
| DOMNode ()
| DOMNode (const DOMNode &)

## Additional Inherited Members

Public Types inherited from DOMNode
enum | NodeType { ELEMENT_NODE = 1, ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2, TEXT_NODE = 3, CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5, ENTITY_NODE = 6, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7, COMMENT_NODE = 8, DOCUMENT_NODE = 9, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11, NOTATION_NODE = 12 }
| NodeType. More...
enum | DocumentPosition { DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x01, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x02, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x04, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x08, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20 }
| DocumentPosition: More...

## Detailed Description

The `DOMCharacterData` interface extends DOMNode with a set of attributes and methods for accessing character data in the DOM.

For clarity this set is defined here rather than on each object that uses these attributes and methods. No DOM objects correspond directly to `DOMCharacterData`, though `DOMText` and others do inherit the interface from it. All `offsets` in this interface start from `0`.

As explained in the DOM spec, text strings in the DOM are represented in UTF-16, i.e. as a sequence of 16-bit units. In the following, the term 16-bit units is used whenever necessary to indicate that indexing on DOMCharacterData is done in 16-bit units.

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## Constructor & Destructor Documentation

## DOMCharacterData() [1/2]

DOMCharacterData::DOMCharacterData | ( |  | ) |

protected

## DOMCharacterData() [2/2]

DOMCharacterData::DOMCharacterData | ( | const DOMCharacterData & | other | ) |

protected

## ~DOMCharacterData()

virtual DOMCharacterData::~DOMCharacterData | ( |  | ) |

virtual

Destructor.

## Member Function Documentation

## appendData()

virtual void DOMCharacterData::appendData | ( | const XMLCh * | arg | ) |

pure virtual

Append the string to the end of the character data of the node.

Upon success, `data` provides access to the concatenation of `data` and the `XMLCh* String` specified.

Parameters

  arg | The `XMLCh* String` to append.

Exceptions

  DOMException | NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## deleteData()

virtual void DOMCharacterData::deleteData | ( | XMLSize_t | offset,
|  | XMLSize_t | count
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Remove a range of characters from the node.

Upon success, `data` and `length` reflect the change.

Parameters

  offset | The offset from which to remove characters.
  count | The number of characters to delete. If the sum of `offset` and `count` exceeds `length` then all characters from `offset` to the end of the data are deleted.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of characters in `data`, or if the specified `count` is negative. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## getData()

virtual const XMLCh* DOMCharacterData::getData | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

Returns the character data of the node that implements this interface.

The DOM implementation may not put arbitrary limits on the amount of data that may be stored in a `DOMCharacterData` node. However, implementation limits may mean that the entirety of a node's data may not fit into a single `XMLCh* String`. In such cases, the user may call `substringData` to retrieve the data in appropriately sized pieces.

Exceptions

  DOMException | NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## getLength()

virtual XMLSize_t DOMCharacterData::getLength | ( |  | ) | const

pure virtual

Returns the number of characters that are available through `data` and the `substringData` method below.

This may have the value zero, i.e., `CharacterData` nodes may be empty.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## insertData()

virtual void DOMCharacterData::insertData | ( | XMLSize_t | offset,
|  | const XMLCh * | arg
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Insert a string at the specified character offset.

Parameters

  offset | The character offset at which to insert.
  arg | The `XMLCh* String` to insert.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of characters in `data`. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## replaceData()

virtual void DOMCharacterData::replaceData | ( | XMLSize_t | offset,
|  | XMLSize_t | count,
|  | const XMLCh * | arg
| ) |  |

pure virtual

Replace the characters starting at the specified character offset with the specified string.

Parameters

  offset | The offset from which to start replacing.
  count | The number of characters to replace. If the sum of `offset` and `count` exceeds `length` , then all characters to the end of the data are replaced (i.e., the effect is the same as a `remove` method call with the same range, followed by an `append` method invocation).
  arg | The `XMLCh* String` with which the range must be replaced.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of characters in `data`, or if the specified `count` is negative. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## setData()

virtual void DOMCharacterData::setData | ( | const XMLCh * | data | ) |

pure virtual

Sets the character data of the node that implements this interface.

Parameters

  data | The `XMLCh* String` to set.

Since
  DOM Level 1

## substringData()

virtual const XMLCh* DOMCharacterData::substringData | ( | XMLSize_t | offset,
|  | XMLSize_t | count
| ) |  | const

pure virtual

Extracts a range of data from the node.

Parameters

  offset | Start offset of substring to extract.
  count | The number of characters to extract.

Returns
  The specified substring. If the sum of `offset` and `count` exceeds the `length`, then all characters to the end of the data are returned.

Exceptions

  DOMException | INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of characters in `data`, or if the specified `count` is negative.

Since
  DOM Level 1

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

- DOMCharacterData.hpp