Source for javax.xml.stream.events.XMLEvent

   1: /* XMLEvent.java --
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  37: 
  38: package javax.xml.stream.events;
  39: 
  40: import java.io.Writer;
  41: import javax.xml.namespace.QName;
  42: import javax.xml.stream.Location;
  43: import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamConstants;
  44: import javax.xml.stream.XMLStreamException;
  45: 
  46: /**
  47:  * An XML stream event.
  48:  */
  49: public interface XMLEvent
  50:   extends XMLStreamConstants
  51: {
  52: 
  53:   /**
  54:    * Returns the type of this event.
  55:    */
  56:   int getEventType();
  57: 
  58:   /**
  59:    * Returns the location of this event.
  60:    */
  61:   Location getLocation();
  62: 
  63:   /**
  64:    * Indicates whether this event is a start-element event.
  65:    */
  66:   boolean isStartElement();
  67: 
  68:   /**
  69:    * Indicates whether this event is an attribute event.
  70:    */
  71:   boolean isAttribute();
  72: 
  73:   /**
  74:    * Indicates whether this event is a namespace declaration event.
  75:    */
  76:   boolean isNamespace();
  77: 
  78:   /**
  79:    * Indicates whether this event is an end-element event.
  80:    */
  81:   boolean isEndElement();
  82: 
  83:   /**
  84:    * Indicates whether this event is an entity reference event.
  85:    */
  86:   boolean isEntityReference();
  87: 
  88:   /**
  89:    * Indicates whether this event is a processing instruction event.
  90:    */
  91:   boolean isProcessingInstruction();
  92: 
  93:   /**
  94:    * Indicates whether this event is a text event.
  95:    */
  96:   boolean isCharacters();
  97: 
  98:   /**
  99:    * Indicates whether this event is a start-document event.
 100:    */
 101:   boolean isStartDocument();
 102: 
 103:   /**
 104:    * Indicates whether this event is an end-document event.
 105:    */
 106:   boolean isEndDocument();
 107: 
 108:   /**
 109:    * Returns this event as a start-element event.
 110:    */
 111:   StartElement asStartElement();
 112: 
 113:   /**
 114:    * Returns this event as an end-element event.
 115:    */
 116:   EndElement asEndElement();
 117: 
 118:   /**
 119:    * Returns this event as a text event.
 120:    */
 121:   Characters asCharacters();
 122: 
 123:   /**
 124:    * Returns schema-related type information about this event, or null if
 125:    * not available.
 126:    */
 127:   QName getSchemaType();
 128: 
 129:   /**
 130:    * Writes this event to the specified writer.
 131:    */
 132:   void writeAsEncodedUnicode(Writer writer)
 133:     throws XMLStreamException;
 134: 
 135: }