ASF_20_SRC_AUTO/src/java/org/apache/cocoon/xml/AbstractSAXFragment.java

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package org.apache.cocoon.xml;

import org.apache.cocoon.xml.dom.DOMBuilder;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * Abstract implementation of {@link XMLFragment} for objects that are more easily represented
 * as SAX events.
 * <br/>
 * The toDOM() method is implemented by piping in a <code>DOMBuilder</code> the results
 * of <code>toSAX()</code> that must be implemented by concrete subclasses.
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:sylvain.wallez@anyware-tech.com">Sylvain Wallez</a>
 * @version CVS $Id: AbstractSAXFragment.java,v 1.2 2004/03/05 13:03:01 bdelacretaz Exp $
 */

public abstract class AbstractSAXFragment implements XMLFragment {

    /**
     * Appends children representing the object's state to the given node by using
     * the results of <code>toSAX()</code>.
     */
    public void toDOM(Node node) throws Exception
    {
        DOMBuilder builder = new DOMBuilder(node);
        this.toSAX(builder);
    }
}