src/java/org/apache/commons/jxpath/xml/XMLParser2.java

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package org.apache.commons.jxpath.xml;

import java.io.InputStream;

/**
 * The abstract superclass of XML parsers that produce DOM Documents.
 * The features have the same defaults as {@link javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory}.
 *
 * @author Dmitri Plotnikov
 * @version $Revision$ $Date$
 */
public abstract class XMLParser2 implements XMLParser {
    private boolean validating = false;
    private boolean namespaceAware = true;
    private boolean whitespace = false;
    private boolean expandEntityRef = true;
    private boolean ignoreComments = false;
    private boolean coalescing = false;

    /**
     * Set whether the underlying parser should be validating.
     * @param validating flag
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#setValidating(boolean)
     */
    public void setValidating(boolean validating) {
        this.validating = validating;
    }

    /**
     * Learn whether the underlying parser is validating.
     * @return boolean
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#isValidating()
     */
    public boolean isValidating() {
        return validating;
    }

    /**
     * Learn whether the underlying parser is ns-aware.
     * @return boolean
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#isNamespaceAware()
     */
    public boolean isNamespaceAware() {
        return namespaceAware;
    }

    /**
     * Set whether the underlying parser is ns-aware.
     * @param namespaceAware flag
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#setNamespaceAware(boolean)
     */
    public void setNamespaceAware(boolean namespaceAware) {
        this.namespaceAware = namespaceAware;
    }

    /**
     * Set whether the underlying parser is ignoring whitespace.
     * @param whitespace flag
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(boolean)
     */
    public void setIgnoringElementContentWhitespace(boolean whitespace) {
        this.whitespace = whitespace;
    }

    /**
     * Learn whether the underlying parser is ignoring whitespace.
     * @return boolean
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#isIgnoringElementContentWhitespace()
     */
    public boolean isIgnoringElementContentWhitespace() {
        return whitespace;
    }

    /**
     * Learn whether the underlying parser expands entity references.
     * @return boolean
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#isExpandEntityReferences()
     */
    public boolean isExpandEntityReferences() {
        return expandEntityRef;
    }

    /**
     * Set whether the underlying parser expands entity references.
     * @param expandEntityRef flag
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#setExpandEntityReferences(boolean)
     */
    public void setExpandEntityReferences(boolean expandEntityRef) {
        this.expandEntityRef = expandEntityRef;
    }

    /**
     * Learn whether the underlying parser ignores comments.
     * @return boolean
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#isIgnoringComments()
     */
    public boolean isIgnoringComments() {
        return ignoreComments;
    }

    /**
     * Set whether the underlying parser ignores comments.
     * @param ignoreComments flag
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#setIgnoringComments(boolean)
     */
    public void setIgnoringComments(boolean ignoreComments) {
        this.ignoreComments = ignoreComments;
    }

    /**
     * Learn whether the underlying parser is coalescing.
     * @return boolean
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#isCoalescing()
     */
    public boolean isCoalescing() {
        return coalescing;
    }

    /**
     * Set whether the underlying parser is coalescing.
     * @param coalescing flag
     * @see javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory#setCoalescing(boolean)
     */
    public void setCoalescing(boolean coalescing) {
        this.coalescing = coalescing;
    }

    public abstract Object parseXML(InputStream stream);
}