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Interface XMLArgumentTypeProvider

public interface XMLArgumentTypeProvider

This interface can be implemented by ToolAgents that provide information about the accepted coding of arguments that describe XML data.

Note that if a tool agent implements this interface, the type returned by requestedXMLArgumentType overrides any settings in XPDL.

Version:

$Revision: 1.2 $

Author:

Michael Lipp

Field Summary

static int	XML_AS_JDOM Pass parameters as JDOM when tool is invoked.
static int	XML_AS_SAX Pass parameters as SAXEventBuffer when tool is invoked.
static int	XML_AS_W3C_DOM Pass parameters as W3C DOM when tool is invoked.

Method Summary

int	requestedXMLArgumentType() Return the requested type for XML arguments.

Field Detail

XML_AS_W3C_DOM

public static final int XML_AS_W3C_DOM

Pass parameters as W3C DOM when tool is invoked. The parameter is passed in as org.w3c.dom.DocumentFragement, containing one or more elements, to support single-rooted XML structures as well as non-single rooted structures.

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Constant Field Values

XML_AS_JDOM

public static final int XML_AS_JDOM

Pass parameters as JDOM when tool is invoked. The parameter is passed in as java.util.List, containing one or more elements, to support single-rooted XML structures as well as non-single rooted structures.

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Constant Field Values

XML_AS_SAX

public static final int XML_AS_SAX

Pass parameters as SAXEventBuffer when tool is invoked.

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Constant Field Values

Method Detail

requestedXMLArgumentType

public int requestedXMLArgumentType()

Return the requested type for XML arguments.

Returns:

one of XML_AS_W3C_DOM, XML_AS_JDOM or XML_AS_SAX