gov.llnl.babel.parsers.xml
Class SymbolToDOM
java.lang.Object
gov.llnl.babel.parsers.xml.SymbolToDOM
public class SymbolToDOM
extends java.lang.Object
Class SymbolToDOM
converts a SIDL symbol into an XML DOM
document. Utility function convert
takes a symbol and returns
a DOM document. The DOM representation is formatted with white space such
that a straight-forward DOM printer will generate pretty XML output.
SymbolToDOM
public SymbolToDOM(Symbol symbol,
Context context)
Create a symbol to DOM converter object. The constructor creates a
DOM document node with the appropriate document type to validate the
symbol input. The resulting document may be read by a call to method
getDocument
.
symbol
- The symbol associated with an instance of this class.
convert
public static Document convert(Symbol symbol,
Context context)
This is a convenience utility function that converts the symbol into
a DOM document. Since this method is static, it may be called without
explicitly creating an instance of object SymbolToDOM
.
symbol
- The symbol to be converted.
convertToString
public static String convertToString(Symbol symbol,
Context context)
This is a convenience utilility function that converts the symbol
directly into a string.
symbol
- The symbol to be converted.
getDTDPath
public String getDTDPath(String dtd)
getDocument
public Document getDocument()
Return the DOM document for the symbol specified in the constructor.