Package org.apache.axiom.om

Interface OMText

All Superinterfaces:
OMInformationItem, OMNode, OMSerializable
public interface OMText extends OMNode
Represents character data in an XML document. A node of this type is used to represent character data that may appear in element content as well as the prolog and epilog of a document. Note that this node type is used for normal character data, CDATA sections and ignorable whitespace. The OMNode.getType() method may be used to distinguish between these different types of character data.

By default, Axiom uses StAX parsers configured in coalescing mode. As a consequence, CDATA sections will not result in nodes of type OMNode.CDATA_SECTION_NODE nodes, but of type OMNode.TEXT_NODE (See the Javadoc of StAXUtils for information about how to change this behavior). In addition, the object model instance will never contain two adjacent OMText siblings.

The same is not necessarily true for Axiom trees that have been built or updated programmatically or that contain nodes resulting from the expansion of an OMSourcedElement. Therefore, code that manipulates character data MUST NOT assume that text nodes are always coalesced. In particular, when extracting character data from an element, OMElement.getText() should be used instead of getText().

An OMText node stores the character data as String, char[] or a Blob. The latter is used for base64 encoded binary data.

  • Method Details

    • getText

      String getText()
      Returns the text value of this node.
      Returns:
      Returns String.

    • getTextCharacters

      char[] getTextCharacters()
      Deprecated.

    • isCharacters

      boolean isCharacters()
      Deprecated.

    • getTextAsQName

      QName getTextAsQName()
      Deprecated.
      If the underlying parser is non coalescing, then this method may unexpectedly fail or return an incorrect result. Always use OMElement.getTextAsQName() to get the QName value of an element.

    • getNamespace

      OMNamespace getNamespace()
      Deprecated.
      This API is going away. Please use OMElement.getTextAsQName() instead.
      See Also:

    • getBlob

      Blob getBlob()
      Returns a Blob containing the base64-decoded content of this node.
      Returns:
      the base64-decoded content

    • isOptimized

      boolean isOptimized()
      Returns:
      Returns boolean flag saying whether the node contains an optimized text or not.

    • setOptimize

      void setOptimize(boolean value)
      Sets the optimize flag.
      Parameters:
      value - true to optimize binary content (usually w/MTOM)

    • isBinary

      boolean isBinary()
      Returns:
      Returns boolean flag saying whether the node contains binary or not.

    • setBinary

      void setBinary(boolean value)
      Sets the isBinary flag. Receiving binary can happen as either MTOM attachments or as Base64 Text In the case of Base64 user has to explicitly specify that the content is binary, before calling getDataHandler(), getInputStream()....
      Parameters:
      value - true if the content is binary

    • getContentID

      String getContentID()
      Gets the content id.
      Returns:
      Returns String.

    • setContentID

      void setContentID(String cid)
      Set a specific content id
      Parameters:
      cid -