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XMLEvent,XMLStreamConstants
public interface Characters extends XMLEvent
This describes the interface to Characters events. All text events get reported as Characters events. Content, CData and whitespace are all reported as Characters events. IgnorableWhitespace, in most cases, will be set to false unless an element declaration of element content is present for the current element.- Since:
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Field Summary
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Fields declared in interface javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants
ATTRIBUTE, CDATA, CHARACTERS, COMMENT, DTD, END_DOCUMENT, END_ELEMENT, ENTITY_DECLARATION, ENTITY_REFERENCE, NAMESPACE, NOTATION_DECLARATION, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SPACE, START_DOCUMENT, START_ELEMENT
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Method Summary
All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Modifier and Type Method Description StringgetData()Get the character data of this eventbooleanisCData()Returns true if this is a CData section.booleanisIgnorableWhiteSpace()Return true if this is ignorableWhiteSpace.booleanisWhiteSpace()Returns true if this set of Characters is all whitespace.-
Methods declared in interface javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent
asCharacters, asEndElement, asStartElement, getEventType, getLocation, getSchemaType, isAttribute, isCharacters, isEndDocument, isEndElement, isEntityReference, isNamespace, isProcessingInstruction, isStartDocument, isStartElement, writeAsEncodedUnicode
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Method Detail
getData
String getData()
Get the character data of this event
isWhiteSpace
boolean isWhiteSpace()
Returns true if this set of Characters is all whitespace. Whitespace inside a document is reported as CHARACTERS. This method allows checking of CHARACTERS events to see if they are composed of only whitespace characters
isCData
boolean isCData()
Returns true if this is a CData section. If this event is CData its event type will be CDATA If javax.xml.stream.isCoalescing is set to true CDATA Sections that are surrounded by non CDATA characters will be reported as a single Characters event. This method will return false in this case.
isIgnorableWhiteSpace
boolean isIgnorableWhiteSpace()
Return true if this is ignorableWhiteSpace. If this event is ignorableWhiteSpace its event type will be SPACE.
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