Class Element

Superclasses :

xml::Node

Subclasses :

xml::HtmlElement
xml::XmlElement

Package :

xml

Represents an element in the document.

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Class summary

Methods inherited from xml::Node

add_child(obj, pos) add_string(s, pos) do_trim(s) generate_nodes() get_children() get_children_no_whitespace() get_parent() get_string_content() get_trimmed_children() get_trimmed_string_content() remove_whitespace_children()

Variables inherited from xml::Node

children parent

Methods inherited from lang::Object

clone(seen) equals(other, seen) get_class() get_class_name() get_id() hash_code(depth, seen) is_instance(name) to_string(depth, seen)

Methods defined in this class

get_attribute(key) get_attributes() get_name(s) get_nth_element(n, s) get_nth_string(n) get_nth_trimmed_string(n) get_type() initially() print_structure(f, indent, flags) search_children(s) search_tree(s) set_attribute(key, value) set_name(s)

Variables defined in this class

attributes name

Method detail

get_attribute(key)

Return the attribute for this tag, or &null if none specified.

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Return the attributes map for this tag.

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Return the name of the element

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Return the nth sub-element matching the given tag; if the tag is omitted just return the nth sub-element.

Fails :

if there is no such element.

Parameters :

n - the index to look for; 1 being the first.

s - the name of the sub-element.

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Return the nth sub-element which is a string.

Fails :

if there is no such element.

Parameters :

n - the index to look for; 1 being the first.

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Return the nth sub-element which is a string, after trimming it.

Fails :

if there is no such element.

Parameters :

n - the index to look for; 1 being the first.

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Overrides get_type() in xml::Node

Returns "element"

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Overrides initially() in xml::Node

Overrides print_structure(f, indent, flags) in xml::Node

Print the structure to the given file

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Generate the elements under this element, with the given name. If name is omitted, generate all the elements.

Parameters :

s - the name of the sub-elements.

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Search for all the Elements with the given tag name, recursively traversing the entire tree based at this node.

Parameters :

s - the name of the sub-elements.

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Set an attribute for this tag.

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Set the name of the tag

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