org.w3c.dom
Interface Node
java.lang.Object
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public interface Node
The
Node interface is the primary datatype for the entire
Document Object Model. It represents a single node in the document tree.
While all objects implementing the
Node interface expose
methods for dealing with children, not all objects implementing the
Node interface may have children. For example,
Text nodes may not have children, and adding children to
such nodes results in a
DOMException being raised.
The attributes nodeName, nodeValue and
attributes are included as a mechanism to get at node
information without casting down to the specific derived interface. In
cases where there is no obvious mapping of these attributes for a
specific nodeType (e.g., nodeValue for an
Element or attributes for a Comment
), this returns null. Note that the specialized interfaces
may contain additional and more convenient mechanisms to get and set the
relevant information.
The values of nodeName,
nodeValue, and attributes vary according to the
node type as follows:
| Interface |
nodeName |
nodeValue |
attributes |
| Attr |
name of
attribute |
value of attribute |
null |
| CDATASection |
"#cdata-section" |
content of the CDATA Section |
null |
| Comment |
"#comment" |
content of
the comment |
null |
| Document |
"#document" |
null |
null |
| DocumentFragment |
"#document-fragment" |
null |
null |
| DocumentType |
document type name |
null |
null |
| Element |
tag name |
null |
NamedNodeMap |
| Entity |
entity name |
null |
null |
|
EntityReference |
name of entity referenced |
null |
null |
| Notation |
notation name |
null |
null |
| ProcessingInstruction |
target |
entire content excluding the target |
null |
| Text |
"#text" |
content of the text node |
null |
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.
ATTRIBUTE_NODE
public static final short ATTRIBUTE_NODE The node is an Attr.
CDATA_SECTION_NODE
public static final short CDATA_SECTION_NODE The node is a CDATASection.
COMMENT_NODE
public static final short COMMENT_NODE The node is a Comment.
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE
public static final short DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE The node is a DocumentFragment.
DOCUMENT_NODE
public static final short DOCUMENT_NODE The node is a Document.
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE
public static final short DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE The node is a DocumentType.
ELEMENT_NODE
public static final short ELEMENT_NODE The node is an Element.
ENTITY_NODE
public static final short ENTITY_NODE The node is an Entity.
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE
public static final short ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE The node is an EntityReference.
NOTATION_NODE
public static final short NOTATION_NODE The node is a Notation.
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE
public static final short PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE The node is a ProcessingInstruction.
TEXT_NODE
public static final short TEXT_NODE The node is a Text node.
appendChild
public Node appendChild(org.w3c.dom.Node newChild) Adds the node newChild to the end of the list of children
of this node. If the newChild is already in the tree, it
is first removed.
Parameters:
Returns:
Throws:
DOMException - HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
allow children of the type of the newChild node, or if
the node to append is one of this node's ancestors or this node
itself.
cloneNode
public Node cloneNode(boolean deep) Returns a duplicate of this node, i.e., serves as a generic copy
constructor for nodes. The duplicate node has no parent; (
parentNode is null.).
Cloning an Element copies all attributes and their
values, including those generated by the XML processor to represent
defaulted attributes, but this method does not copy any text it
contains unless it is a deep clone, since the text is contained in a
child Text node. Cloning an Attribute
directly, as opposed to be cloned as part of an Element
cloning operation, returns a specified attribute (
specified is true). Cloning any other type
of node simply returns a copy of this node.
Note that cloning an immutable subtree results in a mutable copy,
but the children of an EntityReference clone are readonly
. In addition, clones of unspecified Attr nodes are
specified. And, cloning Document,
DocumentType, Entity, and
Notation nodes is implementation dependent.
Parameters:
Returns:
getAttributes
public NamedNodeMap getAttributes() A NamedNodeMap containing the attributes of this node (if
it is an Element) or null otherwise.
getChildNodes
public NodeList getChildNodes() A NodeList that contains all children of this node. If
there are no children, this is a NodeList containing no
nodes.
getFirstChild
public Node getFirstChild() The first child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns
null.
getLastChild
public Node getLastChild() The last child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns
null.
getLocalName
public String getLocalName() Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node.
For nodes of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and
ATTRIBUTE_NODE and nodes created with a DOM Level 1
method, such as createElement from the
Document interface, this is always null.
Since:
getNamespaceURI
public String getNamespaceURI() The namespace URI of this node, or null if it is
unspecified.
This is not a computed value that is the result of a namespace
lookup based on an examination of the namespace declarations in
scope. It is merely the namespace URI given at creation time.
For nodes of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and
ATTRIBUTE_NODE and nodes created with a DOM Level 1
method, such as createElement from the
Document interface, this is always null.Per
the Namespaces in XML Specification an attribute does not inherit
its namespace from the element it is attached to. If an attribute is
not explicitly given a namespace, it simply has no namespace.
Since:
getNextSibling
public Node getNextSibling() The node immediately following this node. If there is no such node,
this returns null.
getNodeName
public String getNodeName() The name of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
getNodeType
public short getNodeType() A code representing the type of the underlying object, as defined above.
getNodeValue
public String getNodeValue() The value of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
When it is defined to be null, setting it has no effect.
Throws:
DOMException - NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.DOMException - DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than
fit in a DOMString variable on the implementation
platform.
getOwnerDocument
public Document getOwnerDocument() The Document object associated with this node. This is
also the Document object used to create new nodes. When
this node is a Document or a DocumentType
which is not used with any Document yet, this is
null.
getParentNode
public Node getParentNode() The parent of this node. All nodes, except Attr,
Document, DocumentFragment,
Entity, and Notation may have a parent.
However, if a node has just been created and not yet added to the
tree, or if it has been removed from the tree, this is
null.
getPrefix
public String getPrefix() The namespace prefix of this node, or null if it is
unspecified.
Note that setting this attribute, when permitted, changes the
nodeName attribute, which holds the qualified name, as
well as the tagName and name attributes of
the Element and Attr interfaces, when
applicable.
Note also that changing the prefix of an attribute that is known to
have a default value, does not make a new attribute with the default
value and the original prefix appear, since the
namespaceURI and localName do not change.
For nodes of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and
ATTRIBUTE_NODE and nodes created with a DOM Level 1
method, such as createElement from the
Document interface, this is always null.
Since:Throws:
DOMException - INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified prefix contains an
illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification .
getPreviousSibling
public Node getPreviousSibling() The node immediately preceding this node. If there is no such node,
this returns null.
hasAttributes
public boolean hasAttributes() Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes.
Since:Returns:
true if this node has any attributes,
false otherwise.
hasChildNodes
public boolean hasChildNodes() Returns whether this node has any children.
Returns:
true if this node has any children,
false otherwise.
insertBefore
public Node insertBefore(org.w3c.dom.Node newChild, org.w3c.dom.Node refChild) Inserts the node newChild before the existing child node
refChild. If refChild is null,
insert newChild at the end of the list of children.
If newChild is a DocumentFragment object,
all of its children are inserted, in the same order, before
refChild. If the newChild is already in the
tree, it is first removed.
Parameters:
Returns:
Throws:
DOMException - HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
allow children of the type of the newChild node, or if
the node to insert is one of this node's ancestors or this node
itself.
isSupported
public boolean isSupported(java.lang.String feature, java.lang.String version) Tests whether the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and
that feature is supported by this node.
Since:Parameters:
Returns:
- Returns
true if the specified feature is
supported on this node, false otherwise.
normalize
public void normalize() Puts all Text nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree
underneath this Node, including attribute nodes, into a
"normal" form where only structure (e.g., elements, comments,
processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references)
separates Text nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent
Text nodes nor empty Text nodes. This can
be used to ensure that the DOM view of a document is the same as if
it were saved and re-loaded, and is useful when operations (such as
XPointer lookups) that depend on a particular document tree
structure are to be used.In cases where the document contains
CDATASections, the normalize operation alone may not be
sufficient, since XPointers do not differentiate between
Text nodes and CDATASection nodes.
removeChild
public Node removeChild(org.w3c.dom.Node oldChild) Removes the child node indicated by oldChild from the list
of children, and returns it.
Parameters:
Returns:
Throws:
DOMException - NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.
replaceChild
public Node replaceChild(org.w3c.dom.Node newChild, org.w3c.dom.Node oldChild) Replaces the child node oldChild with newChild
in the list of children, and returns the oldChild node.
If newChild is a DocumentFragment object,
oldChild is replaced by all of the
DocumentFragment children, which are inserted in the
same order. If the newChild is already in the tree, it
is first removed.
Parameters:
Returns:
Throws:
DOMException - HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
allow children of the type of the newChild node, or if
the node to put in is one of this node's ancestors or this node
itself.
setNodeValue
public void setNodeValue(java.lang.String nodeValue) The value of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
When it is defined to be null, setting it has no effect.
Parameters:
Throws:
DOMException - NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.DOMException - DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than
fit in a DOMString variable on the implementation
platform.
setPrefix
public void setPrefix(java.lang.String prefix) The namespace prefix of this node, or null if it is
unspecified.
Note that setting this attribute, when permitted, changes the
nodeName attribute, which holds the qualified name, as
well as the tagName and name attributes of
the Element and Attr interfaces, when
applicable.
Note also that changing the prefix of an attribute that is known to
have a default value, does not make a new attribute with the default
value and the original prefix appear, since the
namespaceURI and localName do not change.
For nodes of any type other than ELEMENT_NODE and
ATTRIBUTE_NODE and nodes created with a DOM Level 1
method, such as createElement from the
Document interface, this is always null.
Since:Parameters:
Throws:
DOMException - INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified prefix contains an
illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification .
Nodeinterface is the primary datatype for the entire Document Object Model. It represents a single node in the document tree. While all objects implementing theNodeinterface expose methods for dealing with children, not all objects implementing theNodeinterface may have children. For example,Textnodes may not have children, and adding children to such nodes results in aDOMExceptionbeing raised.The attributes
nodeName,nodeValueandattributesare included as a mechanism to get at node information without casting down to the specific derived interface. In cases where there is no obvious mapping of these attributes for a specificnodeType(e.g.,nodeValuefor anElementorattributesfor aComment), this returnsnull. Note that the specialized interfaces may contain additional and more convenient mechanisms to get and set the relevant information.The values of
nodeName,nodeValue, andattributesvary according to the node type as follows:"#cdata-section""#comment""#document""#document-fragment""#text"See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.