org.htmlunit.html

Interface ElementFactory

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultElementFactory, SvgElementFactory, UnknownElementFactory

public interface ElementFactory

Specification of a factory capable of creating DomElement objects.

Author:

Christian Sell, Ahmed Ashour

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
DomElement	createElement(SgmlPage page, String tagName, Attributes attributes) Creates an element according to this factory's specification.
DomElement	createElementNS(SgmlPage page, String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, Attributes attributes) Creates an element according to this factory's specification.

Method Detail

createElement

DomElement createElement(SgmlPage page,
                         String tagName,
                         Attributes attributes)

Creates an element according to this factory's specification. Note that even though this method takes a page parameter, the element is not automatically added to the page's DOM tree.

Parameters:

page - the enclosing page for the new element

tagName - the tag name (most factories will be responsible for a specific tag, but this parameter is passed in for factories that don't follow this rule)

attributes - the attributes encountered during XML/HTML parsing (possibly null if no attributes specified

Returns:

the newly created and initialized element

createElementNS

DomElement createElementNS(SgmlPage page,
                           String namespaceURI,
                           String qualifiedName,
                           Attributes attributes)

Creates an element according to this factory's specification. Note that even though this method takes a page parameter, the element is not automatically added to the page's DOM tree.

Parameters:

page - the enclosing page for the new element

namespaceURI - the URI that identifies an XML namespace

qualifiedName - the qualified name of the element type to instantiate

attributes - the attributes encountered during XML/HTML parsing (possibly null if no attributes specified

Returns:

the newly created and initialized element