com.novell.nds.dirxml.driver.xds
Interface ReadableDocument

All Superinterfaces:

XDSDocument

All Known Subinterfaces:

QueryResultDocument

All Known Implementing Classes:

XDSCommandDocument, XDSCommandResultDocument, XDSInitDocument, XDSQueryDocument, XDSQueryResultDocument

public interface ReadableDocument

extends XDSDocument

Any XDS document that can be read from.

Method Summary

List	childElements() Returns the children of this document's <input> or <output> element.
XDSSourceElement	extractSourceElement() Returns this document's <source> element.
DTDVersion	getDTDVersion() Returns the dtdversion attribute value from this document's <nds> element.

Methods inherited from interface com.novell.nds.dirxml.driver.xds.XDSDocument

domDocument, domIOElement, domNDSElement, isEmpty

Method Detail

getDTDVersion

public DTDVersion getDTDVersion()

Returns the dtdversion attribute value from this document's <nds> element.

Invocation Context:

READ

Returns:

will not return null; if absent, this method returns DTDVersion.UNKNOWN

extractSourceElement

public XDSSourceElement extractSourceElement()

Returns this document's <source> element.

Invocation Context:

READ

Returns:

may return null

childElements

public List childElements()

Returns the children of this document's <input> or <output> element.

Invocation Context:

READ

Returns:

Collections.EMPTY_LIST or a list of XDSElement objects; will not return null