net.sourceforge.jeuclid.elements.support.attributes
Class AbstractAttributeMap

java.lang.Object
  net.sourceforge.jeuclid.elements.support.attributes.AbstractAttributeMap

All Implemented Interfaces:

AttributeMap

Direct Known Subclasses:

DOMAttributeMap, SAXAttributeMap

public abstract class AbstractAttributeMap
extends Object
implements AttributeMap

Generic class for reading and parsing attributes.

Version:

$Revision: 310 $

Author:

Max Berger

Constructor Summary

AbstractAttributeMap()

Method Summary

protected abstract String	getAttribute(String attrName) Override this method to get an attribute value without a namespace.
protected abstract String	getAttributeNS(String namespace, String attrName) Override this method to get an attribtue with a namespace.
boolean	getBoolean(String attrName, boolean defaultValue) retrieve the value of the attribute as boolean.
String	getString(String attrName) retrieve the value of the attribute as String.
String	getString(String attrName, String defaultValue) retrieve the value of the attribute as String.
boolean	hasAttribute(String attrName) return true if an attribute is present.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface net.sourceforge.jeuclid.elements.support.attributes.AttributeMap

getAsMap

Constructor Detail

AbstractAttributeMap

public AbstractAttributeMap()

Method Detail

getAttribute

protected abstract String getAttribute(String attrName)

Override this method to get an attribute value without a namespace.

Parameters:

attrName - name of the attribute

Returns:

value of the attribute

getAttributeNS

protected abstract String getAttributeNS(String namespace,
                                         String attrName)

Override this method to get an attribtue with a namespace.

Parameters:

namespace - the namespace

attrName - the attribtue name

Returns:

value of the attribute.

hasAttribute

public boolean hasAttribute(String attrName)

return true if an attribute is present.

Specified by:

hasAttribute in interface AttributeMap

Parameters:

attrName - name of the attribute to look for.

Returns:

true if attrName is present.

getString

public String getString(String attrName)

retrieve the value of the attribute as String.

Specified by:

getString in interface AttributeMap

Parameters:

attrName - name of the attribute

Returns:

the value of the attribute as String.

getString

public String getString(String attrName,
                        String defaultValue)

retrieve the value of the attribute as String.

Specified by:

getString in interface AttributeMap

Parameters:

attrName - name of the attribute

defaultValue - value to use if unset.

Returns:

the value of the attribute as String.

getBoolean

public boolean getBoolean(String attrName,
                          boolean defaultValue)

retrieve the value of the attribute as boolean.

Specified by:

getBoolean in interface AttributeMap

Parameters:

attrName - name of the attribute.

defaultValue - value to use if unset.

Returns:

a boolean value.