org.writersforge.catalan.transform.xform
Class ToElementProcessor

java.lang.Object
  org.writersforge.catalan.transform.BaseNodeProcessor
      org.writersforge.catalan.transform.xform.XFormProcessor
          org.writersforge.catalan.transform.xform.ToElementProcessor

All Implemented Interfaces:

org.writersforge.bellows.traverse.NodeProcessor

public class ToElementProcessor

extends XFormProcessor

A Datum-only NodeProcessor for converting attributes into element content. Expands all attributes with the given name in the selected nodes into elements nested inside the same node. The attribute name is used for the new child element name, and the attribute value becomes PCDATA inside the new element.

Author:

jsheets

Constructor Summary

ToElementProcessor(org.writersforge.bellows.Datum xml)
Creates a new instance of ToElementProcessor from the XML spec.

ToElementProcessor(java.lang.String query, java.lang.String propertyName, int position, java.lang.String newName)
Creates a new instance of ToElementProcessor.

Method Summary

protected org.writersforge.bellows.Datum

transformNode(org.writersforge.bellows.Datum node, org.writersforge.bellows.Datum root) Performs an in-place transformation on the supplied Datum tree.

Methods inherited from class org.writersforge.catalan.transform.xform.XFormProcessor

getQuery, getQueryNodes, processNode

Methods inherited from class org.writersforge.catalan.transform.BaseNodeProcessor

addLeftover, end, getLeftovers, getNodes, start

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ToElementProcessor

public ToElementProcessor(org.writersforge.bellows.Datum xml)

Creates a new instance of ToElementProcessor from the XML spec.

Parameters:

xml - XML initializing spec

ToElementProcessor

public ToElementProcessor(java.lang.String query,
                          java.lang.String propertyName,
                          int position,
                          java.lang.String newName)

Creates a new instance of ToElementProcessor.

Parameters:

query - Bellows query path to select the source node(s)

propertyName - the attribute to store the content in

position - the index position to insert nodes, or -1 to insert at end of list

newName - the new name for the element, or null to use attribute name

Method Detail

transformNode

protected org.writersforge.bellows.Datum transformNode(org.writersforge.bellows.Datum node,
                                                       org.writersforge.bellows.Datum root)

Performs an in-place transformation on the supplied Datum tree.

Specified by:

transformNode in class XFormProcessor

Parameters:

node - the current node to operate upon

root - the root of the entire XML tree

Returns:

the new root Datum object (usually the same one)