net.charlesames.utility.entity
Class XmlExtensionElement

java.lang.Object
  net.charlesames.utility.entity.XmlNode
      net.charlesames.utility.entity.XmlElement
          net.charlesames.utility.entity.XmlExtensionElement

Deprecated.

public abstract class XmlExtensionElement
extends XmlElement

An XmlExtensionElement instance is a component of an XmlSpec that offers a choice between elements sharing the same tag, but distinguished by a . Each XmlExtensionElement instance is created as an anonymous class which defines two particular methods. XmlElement.getData(WriteableEntity, Element) implements the code which reads data from an XML element into a WriteableEntity instance. XmlNode.putData(WriteableEntity, Element) implements the code which writes data from a WriteableEntity property into an XML attribute.

Author:

Charles Ames

Nested Class Summary

class

XmlExtensionElement.Variation Deprecated. Each XmlExtensionElement.Variation instance identifies a choice option for a XmlExtensionElement instance.

Method Summary

XmlExtensionElement.Variation	addVariation(java.lang.Class<? extends WriteableEntity> entityClass) Deprecated. Add a variation identified by an entity class to this XmlExtensionElement.
org.w3c.dom.Element	toXsdElement(org.w3c.dom.Node parent) Deprecated. Convert the XML specification node to a node description in an XML schema document

Methods inherited from class net.charlesames.utility.entity.XmlElement

getData, getMaxOccurs, getMinOccurs, getXsdTag, isIncludedInSchema, setMaxOccurs, setMinOccurs

Methods inherited from class net.charlesames.utility.entity.XmlNode

getDescription, getTag, getXmlSpec, putData, setDescription, setIncludedInSchema

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

addVariation

public XmlExtensionElement.Variation addVariation(java.lang.Class<? extends WriteableEntity> entityClass)

Deprecated.

Add a variation identified by an entity class to this XmlExtensionElement.

Parameters:

entityClass - The entity class.

Returns:

The newly created XmlExtensionElement.Variation instance.

toXsdElement

public org.w3c.dom.Element toXsdElement(org.w3c.dom.Node parent)

Deprecated.

Description copied from class: XmlNode

Convert the XML specification node to a node description in an XML schema document

Overrides:

toXsdElement in class XmlElement

Parameters:

parent - The parent node.

Returns:

THe newly created node.