javax.xml.stream
Interface XMLEventWriter

All Superinterfaces:

XMLEventConsumer

public interface XMLEventWriter
extends XMLEventConsumer

This is the top level interface for writing XML documents. Instances of this interface are not required to validate the form of the XML.

Version:

1.0

Author:

Copyright (c) 2003 by BEA Systems. All Rights Reserved.

See Also:

XMLEventReader, XMLEvent, Characters, ProcessingInstruction, StartElement, EndElement

Method Summary

void	add(XMLEvent event) Add an event to the output stream Adding a START_ELEMENT will open a new namespace scope that will be closed when the corresponding END_ELEMENT is written.
void	add(XMLEventReader reader) Adds an entire stream to an output stream, calls next() on the inputStream argument until hasNext() returns false This should be treated as a convenience method that will perform the following loop over all the events in an event reader and call add on each event.
void	close() Frees any resources associated with this stream
void	flush() Writes any cached events to the underlying output mechanism
NamespaceContext	getNamespaceContext() Returns the current namespace context.
String	getPrefix(String uri) Gets the prefix the uri is bound to
void	setDefaultNamespace(String uri) Binds a URI to the default namespace This URI is bound in the scope of the current START_ELEMENT / END_ELEMENT pair.
void	setNamespaceContext(NamespaceContext context) Sets the current namespace context for prefix and uri bindings.
void	setPrefix(String prefix, String uri) Sets the prefix the uri is bound to.

Method Detail

flush

void flush()
           throws XMLStreamException

Writes any cached events to the underlying output mechanism

Throws:

XMLStreamException

close

void close()
           throws XMLStreamException

Frees any resources associated with this stream

Throws:

XMLStreamException

add

void add(XMLEvent event)
         throws XMLStreamException

Add an event to the output stream Adding a START_ELEMENT will open a new namespace scope that will be closed when the corresponding END_ELEMENT is written.

Required and optional fields for events added to the writer
Event Type	Required Fields	Optional Fields	Required Behavior
START_ELEMENT	QName name	namespaces , attributes	A START_ELEMENT will be written by writing the name, namespaces, and attributes of the event in XML 1.0 valid syntax for START_ELEMENTs. The name is written by looking up the prefix for the namespace uri. The writer can be configured to respect prefixes of QNames. If the writer is respecting prefixes it must use the prefix set on the QName. The default behavior is to lookup the value for the prefix on the EventWriter's internal namespace context. Each attribute (if any) is written using the behavior specified in the attribute section of this table. Each namespace (if any) is written using the behavior specified in the namespace section of this table.
END_ELEMENT	Qname name	None	A well formed END_ELEMENT tag is written. The name is written by looking up the prefix for the namespace uri. The writer can be configured to respect prefixes of QNames. If the writer is respecting prefixes it must use the prefix set on the QName. The default behavior is to lookup the value for the prefix on the EventWriter's internal namespace context. If the END_ELEMENT name does not match the START_ELEMENT name an XMLStreamException is thrown.
ATTRIBUTE	QName name , String value	QName type	An attribute is written using the same algorithm to find the lexical form as used in START_ELEMENT. The default is to use double quotes to wrap attribute values and to escape any double quotes found in the value. The type value is ignored.
NAMESPACE	String prefix, String namespaceURI, boolean isDefaultNamespaceDeclaration	None	A namespace declaration is written. If the namespace is a default namespace declaration (isDefault is true) then xmlns="$namespaceURI" is written and the prefix is optional. If isDefault is false, the prefix must be declared and the writer must prepend xmlns to the prefix and write out a standard prefix declaration.
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION	None	String target, String data	The data does not need to be present and may be null. Target is required and many not be null. The writer will write data section directly after the target, enclosed in appropriate XML 1.0 syntax
COMMENT	None	String comment	If the comment is present (not null) it is written, otherwise an an empty comment is written
START_DOCUMENT	None	String encoding , boolean standalone, String version	A START_DOCUMENT event is not required to be written to the stream. If present the attributes are written inside the appropriate XML declaration syntax
END_DOCUMENT	None	None	Nothing is written to the output
DTD	String DocumentTypeDefinition	None	The DocumentTypeDefinition is written to the output

Specified by:

add in interface XMLEventConsumer

Parameters:

event - the event to be added

Throws:

XMLStreamException

add

void add(XMLEventReader reader)
         throws XMLStreamException

Adds an entire stream to an output stream, calls next() on the inputStream argument until hasNext() returns false This should be treated as a convenience method that will perform the following loop over all the events in an event reader and call add on each event.

Parameters:

reader - the event stream to add to the output

Throws:

XMLStreamException

getPrefix

String getPrefix(String uri)
                 throws XMLStreamException

Gets the prefix the uri is bound to

Parameters:

uri - the uri to look up

Throws:

XMLStreamException

setPrefix

void setPrefix(String prefix,
               String uri)
               throws XMLStreamException

Sets the prefix the uri is bound to. This prefix is bound in the scope of the current START_ELEMENT / END_ELEMENT pair. If this method is called before a START_ELEMENT has been written the prefix is bound in the root scope.

Parameters:

prefix - the prefix to bind to the uri

uri - the uri to bind to the prefix

Throws:

XMLStreamException

setDefaultNamespace

void setDefaultNamespace(String uri)
                         throws XMLStreamException

Binds a URI to the default namespace This URI is bound in the scope of the current START_ELEMENT / END_ELEMENT pair. If this method is called before a START_ELEMENT has been written the uri is bound in the root scope.

Parameters:

uri - the uri to bind to the default namespace

Throws:

XMLStreamException

setNamespaceContext

void setNamespaceContext(NamespaceContext context)
                         throws XMLStreamException

Sets the current namespace context for prefix and uri bindings. This context becomes the root namespace context for writing and will replace the current root namespace context. Subsequent calls to setPrefix and setDefaultNamespace will bind namespaces using the context passed to the method as the root context for resolving namespaces.

Parameters:

context - the namespace context to use for this writer

Throws:

XMLStreamException

getNamespaceContext

NamespaceContext getNamespaceContext()

Returns the current namespace context.

Returns:

the current namespace context