Module java.xml
Package javax.xml.stream.events

Interface XMLEvent

All Superinterfaces:
XMLStreamConstants
All Known Subinterfaces:
Attribute, Characters, Comment, DTD, EndDocument, EndElement, EntityDeclaration, EntityReference, Namespace, NotationDeclaration, ProcessingInstruction, StartDocument, StartElement
public interface XMLEvent
extends XMLStreamConstants
This is the base event interface for handling markup events. Events are value objects that are used to communicate the XML 1.0 InfoSet to the Application. Events may be cached and referenced after the parse has completed.
Since:
1.6
See Also:
XMLEventReader, Characters, ProcessingInstruction, StartElement, EndElement, StartDocument, EndDocument, EntityReference, EntityDeclaration, NotationDeclaration

  • Method Details

    • getEventType

      int getEventType()
      Returns an integer code for this event.
      See Also:
      XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT, XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT, XMLStreamConstants.CHARACTERS, XMLStreamConstants.ATTRIBUTE, XMLStreamConstants.NAMESPACE, XMLStreamConstants.PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, XMLStreamConstants.COMMENT, XMLStreamConstants.START_DOCUMENT, XMLStreamConstants.END_DOCUMENT, XMLStreamConstants.DTD

    • getLocation

      Location getLocation()
      Return the location of this event. The Location returned from this method is non-volatile and will retain its information.
      See Also:
      Location

    • isStartElement

      boolean isStartElement()
      A utility function to check if this event is a StartElement.
      See Also:
      StartElement

    • isAttribute

      boolean isAttribute()
      A utility function to check if this event is an Attribute.
      See Also:
      Attribute

    • isNamespace

      boolean isNamespace()
      A utility function to check if this event is a Namespace.
      See Also:
      Namespace

    • isEndElement

      boolean isEndElement()
      A utility function to check if this event is a EndElement.
      See Also:
      EndElement

    • isEntityReference

      boolean isEntityReference()
      A utility function to check if this event is an EntityReference.
      See Also:
      EntityReference

    • isProcessingInstruction

      boolean isProcessingInstruction()
      A utility function to check if this event is a ProcessingInstruction.
      See Also:
      ProcessingInstruction

    • isCharacters

      boolean isCharacters()
      A utility function to check if this event is Characters.
      See Also:
      Characters

    • isStartDocument

      boolean isStartDocument()
      A utility function to check if this event is a StartDocument.
      See Also:
      StartDocument

    • isEndDocument

      boolean isEndDocument()
      A utility function to check if this event is an EndDocument.
      See Also:
      EndDocument

    • asStartElement

      StartElement asStartElement()
      Returns this event as a start element event, may result in a class cast exception if this event is not a start element.

    • asEndElement

      EndElement asEndElement()
      Returns this event as an end element event, may result in a class cast exception if this event is not a end element.

    • asCharacters

      Characters asCharacters()
      Returns this event as Characters, may result in a class cast exception if this event is not Characters.

    • getSchemaType

      QName getSchemaType()
      This method is provided for implementations to provide optional type information about the associated event. It is optional and will return null if no information is available.

    • writeAsEncodedUnicode

      void writeAsEncodedUnicode​(Writer writer) throws XMLStreamException
      This method will write the XMLEvent as per the XML 1.0 specification as Unicode characters. No indentation or whitespace should be outputted. Any user defined event type SHALL have this method called when being written to on an output stream. Built in Event types MUST implement this method, but implementations MAY choose not call these methods for optimizations reasons when writing out built in Events to an output stream. The output generated MUST be equivalent in terms of the infoset expressed.
      Parameters:
      writer - The writer that will output the data
      Throws:
      XMLStreamException - if there is a fatal error writing the event