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<s1 title='DOM Samples'>
<s2 title='Overview'>
<p>
This page documents the various Document Object Model (DOM)
samples included with Xerces. Besides being useful programs,
they can be used as DOM programming examples to learn how to
program using the DOM API.
</p>
<p>Basic DOM samples:</p>
<ul>
<li><link anchor='Counter'>dom.Counter</link></li>
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<li><link anchor='DOMAddLines'>dom.DOMAddLines</link></li>
<li><link anchor='DOMGenerate'>dom.DOMGenerate</link></li>
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<li><link anchor='GetElementsByTagName'>dom.GetElementsByTagName</link></li>
<li><link anchor='Writer'>dom.Writer</link></li>
<li><link anchor='ASBuilder'>dom.ASBuilder</link></li>
</ul>
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<p>DOM Traversal samples:</p>
<ul>
<li><link anchor='IteratorView'>dom.traversal.IteratorView</link></li>
<li><link anchor='NameNodeFilter'>dom.traversal.NameNodeFilter</link></li>
<li><link anchor='TreeWalkerView'>dom.traversal.TreeWalkerView</link></li>
</ul>
-->
<p>
Most of the DOM parser samples have a command line option that
allows the user to specify a different DOM parser to use. In
order to supply another DOM parser besides the default Xerces
<code>DOMParser</code>, a DOM parser wrapper class must be written.
This class must implement the <code>dom.ParserWrapper</code>
interface.
</p>
<note>
JAXP could be used instead of the special DOM parser wrapper
class. However, that feature is not implemented at this time.
Using JAXP would require the user to specify the
<code>-Djavax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory=...</code>
option to the virtual machine in order to use a different
document builder factory.
</note>
</s2>
<anchor name='Counter'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.Counter'>
<p>
A sample DOM counter. This sample program illustrates how to
traverse a DOM tree in order to get information about the document.
The output of this program shows the time and count of elements,
attributes, ignorable whitespaces, and characters appearing in
the document. Three times are shown: the parse time, the first
traversal of the document, and the second traversal of the tree.
</p>
<p>
This class is useful as a "poor-man's" performance tester to
compare the speed and accuracy of various DOM parsers. However,
it is important to note that the first parse time of a parser
will include both VM class load time and parser initialization
that would not be present in subsequent parses with the same
file.
</p>
<note>
The results produced by this program should never be accepted as
true performance measurements.
</note>
<s3 title='usage'>
<source>java dom.Counter (options) uri ...</source>
</s3>
<s3 title='options'>
<table>
<tr><th>Option</th><th>Description</th></tr>
<tr><td>-p name</td><td>Select parser wrapper by name.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-x number</td><td>Select number of repetitions.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-n | -N</td><td>Turn on/off namespace processing.</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>-np | -NP</td>
<td>
Turn on/off namespace prefixes.<br/>
<strong>NOTE:</strong> Requires use of -n.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-v | -V</td><td>Turn on/off validation.</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>-s | -S</td>
<td>
Turn on/off Schema validation support.<br/>
<strong>NOTE:</strong> Not supported by all parsers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>-f | -F</td>
<td>
Turn on/off Schema full checking.<br/>
<strong>NOTE:</strong> Requires use of -s and not supported by all parsers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-h</td><td>Display help screen.</td></tr>
</table>
</s3>
</s2>
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<anchor name='DOMAddLines'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.DOMAddLines'>
<p>TODO</p>
</s2>
<anchor name='DOMGenerate'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.DOMGenerate'>
<p>TODO</p>
</s2>
-->
<anchor name='GetElementsByTagName'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.GetElementsByTagName'>
<p>
A sample DOM filter. This sample program illustrates how to
use the <code>Document#getElementsByTagName()</code> method
to quickly and easily locate elements by name.
</p>
<s3 title='usage'>
<source>java dom.GetElementsByTagName (options) uri ...</source>
</s3>
<s3 title='options'>
<table>
<tr><th>Option</th><th>Description</th></tr>
<tr><td>-p name</td><td>Select parser wrapper by name.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-e name</td><td>Specify element name for search.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-a name</td><td>Specify attribute name for specified elements.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-n | -N</td><td>Turn on/off namespace processing.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-v | -V</td><td>Turn on/off validation.</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>-s | -S</td>
<td>
Turn on/off Schema validation support.<br/>
<strong>NOTE:</strong> Not supported by all parsers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-h</td><td>Display help screen.</td></tr>
</table>
</s3>
</s2>
<anchor name='Writer'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.Writer'>
<p>
A sample DOM writer. This sample program illustrates how to
traverse a DOM tree in order to print a document that is parsed.
</p>
<s3 title='usage'>
<source>java dom.Writer (options) uri ...</source>
</s3>
<s3 title='options'>
<table>
<tr><td>-p name</td><td>Select parser wrapper by name.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-n | -N</td><td>Turn on/off namespace processing.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-v | -V</td><td>Turn on/off validation.</td></tr>
<tr>
<td>-s | -S</td>
<td>
Turn on/off Schema validation support.<br/>
<strong>NOTE:</strong> Not supported by all parsers.
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>-c | -C</td>
<td>
Turn on/off Canonical XML output.<br/>
<strong>NOTE:</strong> This is not W3C canonical output.
</td>
</tr>
<tr><td>-h</td><td>Display help screen.</td></tr>
</table>
</s3>
</s2>
<anchor name='ASBuilder'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.ASBuilder'>
<p>
This sample program illustrates how to preparse xml schema
documents and how to validate instance documents against
preparsed schema grammars.
</p>
<s3 title='usage'>
<source>java dom.ASBuilder [-f|-F] -a uri ... [-i uri ...]</source>
</s3>
<s3 title='options'>
<table>
<tr><td>-f | -F</td><td>Turn on/off schema full checking.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-a uri ...</td><td>Provide a list of schema documents.</td></tr>
<tr><td>-i uri ...</td><td>Provide a list of instance documents to validate.</td></tr>
</table>
</s3>
</s2>
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<anchor name='IteratorView'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.traversal.IteratorView'>
<p>TODO</p>
</s2>
<anchor name='NameNodeFilter'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.traversal.NameNodeFilter'>
<p>TODO</p>
</s2>
<anchor name='TreeWalkerView'/>
<s2 title='Sample dom.traversal.TreeWalkerView'>
<p>TODO</p>
</s2>
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