src/java/org/apache/fop/fo/ElementMapping.java

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/* $Id$ */

package org.apache.fop.fo;

import java.util.HashMap;

import javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory;
import javax.xml.parsers.ParserConfigurationException;

import org.w3c.dom.DOMImplementation;

import org.apache.xmlgraphics.util.QName;

/**
 * Abstract base class for Element Mappings (including FO Element Mappings)
 * which provide the framework of valid elements and attibutes for a given
 * namespace.
 */
public abstract class ElementMapping {
    /** constant for defining the default value */
    public static final String DEFAULT = "<default>";

    /** The HashMap table of formatting objects defined by the ElementMapping */
    protected HashMap foObjs = null;
    //Please don't change that to java.util.Map as that can break extensions.

    /** The namespace for the ElementMapping */
    protected String namespaceURI = null;

    /**
     * Returns a HashMap of maker objects for this element mapping
     *
     * @return Table of Maker objects for this ElementMapping
     */
    public HashMap getTable() {
        if (foObjs == null) {
            initialize();
        }
        return foObjs;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the namespace URI for this element mapping
     *
     * @return Namespace URI for this element mapping
     */
    public String getNamespaceURI() {
        return namespaceURI;
    }

    /**
     * Returns the DOMImplementation used by this ElementMapping. The value returned may be null
     * for cases where no DOM is used to represent the element tree (XSL-FO, for example). This
     * method is used by the intermediate format to instantiate the right kind of DOM document
     * for foreign objects. For example, SVG handled through Apache Batik has to use a special
     * DOMImplementation.
     * @return the DOMImplementation used by this ElementMapping, may be null
     */
    public DOMImplementation getDOMImplementation() {
        return null; //For namespaces not used in foreign objects
    }

    /**
     * @return the default DOMImplementation when no specialized DOM is necessary.
     */
    public static DOMImplementation getDefaultDOMImplementation() {
        DocumentBuilderFactory fact = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
        fact.setNamespaceAware(true);
        fact.setValidating(false);
        try {
            return fact.newDocumentBuilder().getDOMImplementation();
        } catch (ParserConfigurationException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(
                    "Cannot return default DOM implementation: " + e.getMessage());
        }
    }

    /** @return the standard namespace prefix for this namespace or null if it is not known. */
    public String getStandardPrefix() {
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Indicates whether a particular attribute of the namespace is a property, i.e. the attribute
     * value should be converted to a property value.
     * @param attributeName the attribute name
     * @return true if the attribute should be converted to a property
     */
    public boolean isAttributeProperty(QName attributeName) {
        return false;
    }

    /**
     * Initializes the set of maker objects associated with this ElementMapping
     */
    protected abstract void initialize();

    /**
     * Base class for all Makers. It is responsible to return the right kind of FONode for a
     * particular element.
     */
    public static class Maker {

        /**
         * Creates a new FONode (or rather a specialized subclass of it).
         * @param parent the parent FONode
         * @return the newly created FONode instance
         */
        public FONode make(FONode parent) {
            return null;
        }
    }
}