net.sf.saxon.serialize
Class CharacterMap

java.lang.Object
  net.sf.saxon.serialize.CharacterMap

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable

public class CharacterMap
extends Object
implements Serializable

This class defines a character map, that is, a mapping from characters to strings used by the serializer when mapping individual characters in the output.

See Also:

Serialized Form

Constructor Summary

CharacterMap(IntHashMap<String> map)
Create a CharacterMap from a raw map of integers to strings

CharacterMap(Iterable<CharacterMap> list)
Create a CharacterMap that combines a set of existing character maps.

Method Summary

CharSequence

map(CharSequence in, boolean insertNulls) Expand all the characters in a string using this character mapping

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CharacterMap

public CharacterMap(IntHashMap<String> map)

Create a CharacterMap from a raw map of integers to strings

Parameters:

map - the mapping of integer Unicode character codes to strings

CharacterMap

public CharacterMap(Iterable<CharacterMap> list)

Create a CharacterMap that combines a set of existing character maps.

Parameters:

list - the list of existing character maps. If the same character is mapped by more than one map in the list, the last mapping takes precedence

Method Detail

map

public CharSequence map(CharSequence in,
                        boolean insertNulls)

Expand all the characters in a string using this character mapping

Parameters:

in - the input string to be mapped

insertNulls - true if null (0) characters are to be inserted before and after replacement characters. This is done to signal that output escaping of these characters is disabled. The flag is set to true when writing XML or HTML, but to false when writing TEXT.