JavaTM 2 Platform Std. Ed. v1.6.0
org.w3c.dom
Interface DocumentFragment
- All Superinterfaces:
- Node
public interface DocumentFragment - extends Node
DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal"
Document object. It is very common to want to be able to
extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a
document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a
document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object
which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for
this purpose. While it is true that a Document object could
fulfill this role, a Document object can potentially be a
heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation. What is
really needed for this is a very lightweight object.
DocumentFragment is such an object.
Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children
of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment
objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the
DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node.
The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more
nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of
the document. DocumentFragment nodes do not need to be
well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules
imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top
nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one
child and that child node could be a Text node. Such a
structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML
document.
When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a
Document (or indeed any other Node that may
take children) the children of the DocumentFragment and not
the DocumentFragment itself are inserted into the
Node . This makes the DocumentFragment very
useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the
DocumentFragment acts as the parent of these nodes so that
the user can use the standard methods from the Node
interface, such as Node.insertBefore and
Node.appendChild .
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.
Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node |
ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE |
Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node |
appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData |
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