edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.html

Class JHElement

java.lang.Object

edu.harvard.hul.ois.jhove.module.html.JHElement

Direct Known Subclasses:

JHCloseTag, JHComment, JHDoctype, JHErrorElement, JHOpenTag, JHPCData, JHXmlDecl

public abstract class JHElement
extends Object

Abstract superclass for the representation of portions of an HTML file. This is not the same usage of "element" as the SGML definition, but refers to a parsed unit, such as an opening tag, closing tag, or PCDATA.

Author:

Gary McGath

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
int	_column
int	_line

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
JHElement(List elements) Constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
int	getColumn() Returns the column number for the start of the element.
protected List	getEntities(String text) Extracts entities from a text string and returns them as a List of Strings.
int	getLine() Returns the line number for the start of the element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

_column

public int _column

_line

public int _line

Constructor Detail

JHElement

public JHElement(List elements)

Constructor.

Parameters:

elements - List of elements representing the document. May be null for a stub element which is implied rather than being generated by the parser.

Method Detail

getLine

public int getLine()

Returns the line number for the start of the element.

getColumn

public int getColumn()

Returns the column number for the start of the element.

getEntities

protected List getEntities(String text)

Extracts entities from a text string and returns them as a List of Strings. If there are no entities, returns an empty List.