prajna.data

Interface Xmlizable

All Known Implementing Classes:

BooleanFieldDesc, DatasetSpec, DataStructureSpec, DataTemplate, EnumFieldDesc, FieldDesc, GeoFieldDesc, GraphSpec, GridSpec, IntFieldDesc, LocationFieldDesc, LongFieldDesc, MeasureFieldDesc, NumericFieldDesc, TextFieldDesc, TimeFieldDesc, TokenFieldDesc, TreeSpec, UrlFieldDesc

public interface Xmlizable

Interface which allows an object to be converted to an XML form. Any objects which implement this interface should also implement a constructor which takes an Element as its sole argument.

Author:

Edward Swing

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	loadFromXml(org.w3c.dom.Element elem) Loads the object's state from the XML element.
org.w3c.dom.Element	toXml(org.w3c.dom.Document doc) Generate the XML representation of this object.

Method Detail

loadFromXml

void loadFromXml(org.w3c.dom.Element elem)

Loads the object's state from the XML element. The element should contain sufficient information to reconstruct the object

Parameters:

elem - An XML element containing the data for this object

toXml

org.w3c.dom.Element toXml(org.w3c.dom.Document doc)

Generate the XML representation of this object. The element should contain all information necessary to reconstruct object

Parameters:

doc - The Document object

Returns:

an Element containing the representation of the object