Visitor (dom4j 1.6.1 API)

org.dom4j Interface Visitor

All Known Implementing Classes:

VisitorSupport

public interface Visitor

Visitor is used to implement the Visitor pattern in DOM4J. An object of this interface can be passed to a Node which will then call its typesafe methods. Please refer to the Gang of Four book of Design Patterns for more details on the Visitor pattern.

This site has further discussion on design patterns and links to the GOF book. This link describes the Visitor pattern in detail.

Version:

$Revision: 1.8 $

Author:

James Strachan

visit

public void visit(Document document)

Visits the given Document

Parameters:

document - is the Document node to visit.

visit

public void visit(DocumentType documentType)

Visits the given DocumentType

Parameters:

documentType - is the DocumentType node to visit.

visit

public void visit(Element node)

Visits the given Element

Parameters:

node - is the Element node to visit.

visit

public void visit(Attribute node)

Visits the given Attribute

Parameters:

node - is the Attribute node to visit.

visit

public void visit(CDATA node)

Visits the given CDATA

Parameters:

node - is the CDATA node to visit.

visit

public void visit(Comment node)

Visits the given Comment

Parameters:

node - is the Comment node to visit.

visit

public void visit(Entity node)

Visits the given Entity

Parameters:

node - is the Entity node to visit.

visit

public void visit(Namespace namespace)

Visits the given Namespace

Parameters:

namespace - is the Namespace node to visit.

visit

public void visit(ProcessingInstruction node)

Visits the given ProcessingInstruction

Parameters:

node - is the ProcessingInstruction node to visit.

visit

public void visit(Text node)

Visits the given Text

Parameters:

node - is the Text node to visit.