weblogic.apache.xml.utils
Class XMLStringFactory

java.lang.Object
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Direct Known Subclasses:

XMLStringFactoryImpl

public abstract class XMLStringFactory

extends java.lang.Object

A concrete class that implements this interface creates XMLString objects.

This class is based on an implementation from the Apache XML Project. In future releases the XML parser, XSLT processor, and associated classes will likely be updated to be based on a later version of the Apache implementations. Since Apache does not guarantee backwards compatibility between versions of their software, we cannot guarantee backwards compatibility of any of the classes contained in the weblogic.apache package or sub-packages.

Constructor Summary

XMLStringFactory()

Method Summary

abstract XMLString	emptystr() Get a cheap representation of an empty string.
abstract XMLString	newstr(char[] string, int start, int length) Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer.
abstract XMLString	newstr(FastStringBuffer string, int start, int length) Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer.
abstract XMLString	newstr(java.lang.String string) Create a new XMLString from a Java string.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

XMLStringFactory

public XMLStringFactory()

Method Detail

newstr

public abstract XMLString newstr(java.lang.String string)

Create a new XMLString from a Java string.

Parameters:

string - Java String reference, which must be non-null.

Returns:

An XMLString object that wraps the String reference.

newstr

public abstract XMLString newstr(FastStringBuffer string,
                                 int start,
                                 int length)

Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer.

Parameters:

string - FastStringBuffer reference, which must be non-null.

start - The start position in the array.

length - The number of characters to read from the array.

Returns:

An XMLString object that wraps the FastStringBuffer reference.

newstr

public abstract XMLString newstr(char[] string,
                                 int start,
                                 int length)

Create a XMLString from a FastStringBuffer.

Parameters:

string - FastStringBuffer reference, which must be non-null.

start - The start position in the array.

length - The number of characters to read from the array.

Returns:

An XMLString object that wraps the FastStringBuffer reference.

emptystr

public abstract XMLString emptystr()

Get a cheap representation of an empty string.

Returns:

An non-null reference to an XMLString that represents "".