Package org.dom4j

package org.dom4j

Defines the XML Document Object Model in Java interfaces together with some helper classes.

Related Packages

Package	Description
org.dom4j.bean	An implementation of the dom4j API which allows JavaBeans to be used to store and retrieve attribute values from Element.
org.dom4j.dom	An implementation of the dom4j API which also supports the W3C object model.
org.dom4j.dtd	Classes to represent the DTD declarations.
org.dom4j.io	Provides input and output via SAX and DOM together with writing dom4j objects to streams as XML text.
org.dom4j.jaxb
org.dom4j.rule	A Pattern based XML rule engine which implements the full XSLT processing model while allowing any Action to be fired if a pattern matches.
org.dom4j.swing	A collection of adapters to allow easy integration with dom4j XML documents and Swing such as TreeModels and TableModels.
org.dom4j.tree	Contains the default implementations of the dom4j Document Object Model together with some helpful base classes for those wishing to implement their own document object model.
org.dom4j.util	A collection of utility classes for the dom4j API.
org.dom4j.xpath	Provides the core tools needed to use the XPath library

Class	Description
Attribute	Attribute defines an XML attribute.
Branch	Branch interface defines the common behaviour for Nodes which can contain child nodes (content) such as XML elements and documents.
CDATA	CDATA defines an XML CDATA section.
CharacterData	CharacterData is a marker interface for character based nodes such as the CDATA,Comment and Text nodes.
Comment	Comment defines the behavior of an XML comment.
Document	Document defines an XML Document.
DocumentException	DocumentException is a nested Exception which may be thrown during the processing of a DOM4J document.
DocumentFactory	DocumentFactory is a collection of factory methods to allow easy custom building of DOM4J trees.
DocumentHelper	DocumentHelper is a collection of helper methods for using DOM4J.
DocumentType	DocumentType defines an XML DOCTYPE declaration.
Element	Element interface defines an XML element.
ElementHandler	ElementHandler interface defines a handler of Element objects.
ElementPath	This interface is used by ElementHandlerinstances to retrieve information about the current path hierarchy they are to process.
Entity	Entity defines an XML entity.
IllegalAddException	IllegalAddException is thrown when a node is added incorrectly to an Element
InvalidXPathException	InvalidXPathException is thrown when an invalid XPath expression is used to traverse an XML document
Namespace	Namespace is a Flyweight Namespace that can be shared amongst nodes.
Node	Node defines the polymorphic behavior for all XML nodes in a dom4j tree.
NodeFilter	NodeFilter defines the behavior for a filter or predicate which acts on a DOM4J Node.
ProcessingInstruction	ProcessingInstruction defines an XML processing instruction.
QName	QName represents a qualified name value of an XML element or attribute.
Text	Text defines an XML Text node.
Visitor	Visitor is used to implement the Visitor pattern in DOM4J.
VisitorSupport	VisitorSupport is an abstract base class which is useful for implementation inheritence or when using anonymous inner classes to create simple Visitor implementations.
XPath	XPath represents an XPath expression after it has been parsed from a String.
XPathException	XPathException is thrown when an exception occurs while evaluating an XPath expression, usually due to some function throwing an exception.