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org.htmlparser.sax
Class Locator

java.lang.Object
  extended by org.htmlparser.sax.Locator
All Implemented Interfaces:
Locator

public class Locator
extends Object
implements Locator

Transforms character offsets into line and column in the HTML file.


Field Summary
protected  Parser mParser
          Underlying parser object.
 
Constructor Summary
Locator(Parser parser)
          Creates a locator for the given parser.
 
Method Summary
 int getColumnNumber()
          Return the column number where the current document event ends.
 int getLineNumber()
          Return the line number where the current document event ends.
 String getPublicId()
          Return the public identifier for the current document event.
 String getSystemId()
          Return the system identifier for the current document event.
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait
 

Field Detail

mParser

protected Parser mParser
Underlying parser object.

Constructor Detail

Locator

public Locator(Parser parser)
Creates a locator for the given parser.

Parameters:
parser - The parser with the Page being accessed.
Method Detail

getPublicId

public String getPublicId()
Return the public identifier for the current document event.

The return value is the public identifier of the document entity or of the external parsed entity in which the markup triggering the event appears.

Specified by:
getPublicId in interface Locator
Returns:
A string containing the public identifier, or null if none is available.
See Also:
getSystemId()

getSystemId

public String getSystemId()
Return the system identifier for the current document event.

The return value is the system identifier of the document entity or of the external parsed entity in which the markup triggering the event appears.

If the system identifier is a URL, the parser must resolve it fully before passing it to the application. For example, a file name must always be provided as a file:... URL, and other kinds of relative URI are also resolved against their bases.

Specified by:
getSystemId in interface Locator
Returns:
A string containing the system identifier, or null if none is available.
See Also:
getPublicId()

getLineNumber

public int getLineNumber()
Return the line number where the current document event ends. Lines are delimited by line ends, which are defined in the XML specification.

Warning: The return value from the method is intended only as an approximation for the sake of diagnostics; it is not intended to provide sufficient information to edit the character content of the original XML document. In some cases, these "line" numbers match what would be displayed as columns, and in others they may not match the source text due to internal entity expansion.

The return value is an approximation of the line number in the document entity or external parsed entity where the markup triggering the event appears.

If possible, the SAX driver should provide the line position of the first character after the text associated with the document event. The first line is line 1.

Specified by:
getLineNumber in interface Locator
Returns:
The line number, or -1 if none is available.
See Also:
getColumnNumber()

getColumnNumber

public int getColumnNumber()
Return the column number where the current document event ends. This is one-based number of Java char values since the last line end.

Warning: The return value from the method is intended only as an approximation for the sake of diagnostics; it is not intended to provide sufficient information to edit the character content of the original XML document. For example, when lines contain combining character sequences, wide characters, surrogate pairs, or bi-directional text, the value may not correspond to the column in a text editor's display.

The return value is an approximation of the column number in the document entity or external parsed entity where the markup triggering the event appears.

If possible, the SAX driver should provide the line position of the first character after the text associated with the document event. The first column in each line is column 1.

Specified by:
getColumnNumber in interface Locator
Returns:
The column number, or -1 if none is available.
See Also:
getLineNumber()

© 2006 Derrick Oswald
Sep 17, 2006

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