com.sap.netweaver.bc.serialize

Interface IXMLSerializer

All Superinterfaces:

ContentHandler

public interface IXMLSerializer
extends ContentHandler

this interface is provided to all ISerializer implementations that need to write out data. It offers convenience method not available from the ContentHandler interface as well as functionality to ensure well-formedness that is needed by classes that call a multitude of serializer instances

Copyright 2004 SAP AG

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	dataElement(String tag, String value, Attributes atts) convenience method to write an xml-element that consists of only attribute values and a value field, but does not contain other xml-elements.
void	emptyElement(String tag, Attributes atts) convenience method to write an xml-element that consists of only attribute values and nothing else.
boolean	isDocumentEnded()

Methods inherited from interface org.xml.sax.ContentHandler

characters, endDocument, endElement, endPrefixMapping, ignorableWhitespace, processingInstruction, setDocumentLocator, skippedEntity, startDocument, startElement, startPrefixMapping

Method Detail

emptyElement

void emptyElement(String tag,
                  Attributes atts)
           throws SAXException

convenience method to write an xml-element that consists of only attribute values and nothing else.
a="b" c="d" e = "f"

Parameters:

tag - the full qualified name (qName) of the xml-element to write. Must not be null

atts - the attributes to write. Must not be null, but may be empty

Throws:

SAXException - SAXException

dataElement

void dataElement(String tag,
                 String value,
                 Attributes atts)
          throws SAXException

convenience method to write an xml-element that consists of only attribute values and a value field, but does not contain other xml-elements. exampletag a="b" c="d" e="f" value exampletag

Parameters:

tag - the full qualified name (qName) of the xml-element to write. Must not be null

value - the value to write for this element. Must not be null, but might be an empty string

atts - the attributes to write. Must not be null, but may be empty

Throws:

SAXException - SAXException

isDocumentEnded

boolean isDocumentEnded()

Returns:

flag telling if the endDocument method has been called or not