All Known Implementing Classes:

AxiomObjectModel, DOM4JObjectModel, DOMEnvelope, DominoTreeModel, DOMObjectModel, JDOM2ObjectModel, XOMObjectModel
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public interface ExternalObjectModel
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This interface must be implemented by any third-party object model that can be wrapped with a wrapper that implements the Saxon Object Model (the NodeInfo interface).
This interface is designed to enable advanced applications to implement and register new object model implementations that Saxon can then use without change. Although it is intended for external use, it cannot at this stage be considered part of the stable Saxon Public API. In particular, it is likely that the interface will grow by the addition of new methods.

For maximum integration, an object may extend TreeModel as well as implementing this interface. To implement TreeModel, it must supply a Builder; in effect this means that it will be possible to use the external object model for output as well as for input.

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Default Methods
Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`default ActiveSource`	`getActiveSource(javax.xml.transform.Source supplied)`	Give this ExternalObjectModel the opportunity of recognising a Source object and returning an ActiveSource, which will be used to send an instance of this external model to a supplied Receiver.
`Receiver`	`getDocumentBuilder(javax.xml.transform.Result result)`	Test whether this object model recognizes a particular kind of JAXP Result object, and if it does, return a Receiver that builds an instance of this data model from a sequence of events.
`java.lang.String`	`getDocumentClassName()`	Get the name of a characteristic class, which, if it can be loaded, indicates that the supporting libraries for this object model implementation are available on the classpath
`java.lang.String`	`getIdentifyingURI()`	Get the URI of the external object model as used in the JAXP factory interfaces for obtaining an XPath implementation
`JPConverter`	`getJPConverter(java.lang.Class sourceClass, Configuration config)`	Get a converter from values in the external object model to XPath values.
`PJConverter`	`getNodeListCreator(java.lang.Object node)`	Get a converter that converts a sequence of XPath nodes to this model's representation of a node list.
`PJConverter`	`getPJConverter(java.lang.Class<?> targetClass)`	Get a converter from XPath values to values in the external object model
`NodeInfo`	`unravel(javax.xml.transform.Source source, Configuration config)`	Wrap or unwrap a node using this object model to return the corresponding erSaxon node.

- Method Detail
  - getDocumentClassName
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java.lang.String getDocumentClassName()
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    Get the name of a characteristic class, which, if it can be loaded, indicates that the supporting libraries for this object model implementation are available on the classpath
    
    Returns:
    
    by convention (but not necessarily) the class that implements a document node in the relevant external model
  - getIdentifyingURI
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java.lang.String getIdentifyingURI()
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    Get the URI of the external object model as used in the JAXP factory interfaces for obtaining an XPath implementation
    
    Returns:
    
    the URI used to identify this object model in the JAXP XPath factory mechanism.
  - getPJConverter
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PJConverter getPJConverter(java.lang.Class<?> targetClass)
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    Get a converter from XPath values to values in the external object model
    
    Parameters:
    
    targetClass - the required class of the result of the conversion. If this class represents a node or list of nodes in the external object model, the method should return a converter that takes a native node or sequence of nodes as input and returns a node or sequence of nodes in the external object model representation. Otherwise, it should return null.
    
    Returns:
    
    a converter, if the targetClass is recognized as belonging to this object model; otherwise null
  - getJPConverter
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JPConverter getJPConverter(java.lang.Class sourceClass,
                           Configuration config)
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    Get a converter from values in the external object model to XPath values.
    
    Parameters:
    
    sourceClass - the class (static or dynamic) of values to be converted
    
    config - the Saxon Configuration object
    
    Returns:
    
    a converter, if the sourceClass is recognized as belonging to this object model; otherwise null
  - getNodeListCreator
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PJConverter getNodeListCreator(java.lang.Object node)
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    Get a converter that converts a sequence of XPath nodes to this model's representation of a node list.
    This method is primarily for the benefit of DOM, which uses its own NodeList class to represent collections of nodes. Most other object models use standard Java collection objects such as java.util.List
    
    Parameters:
    
    node - an example of the kind of node used in this model
    
    Returns:
    
    if the model does not recognize this node as one of its own, return null. Otherwise return a PJConverter that takes a list of XPath nodes (represented as NodeInfo objects) and returns a collection of nodes in this object model
  - getDocumentBuilder
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Receiver getDocumentBuilder(javax.xml.transform.Result result)
                     throws XPathException
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    Test whether this object model recognizes a particular kind of JAXP Result object, and if it does, return a Receiver that builds an instance of this data model from a sequence of events. If the Result is not recognised, return null.
    
    Parameters:
    
    result - a JAXP result object
    
    Returns:
    
    a Receiver that writes to that result, if available; or null otherwise
    
    Throws:
    
    XPathException - if any failure occurs
  - getActiveSource
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default ActiveSource getActiveSource(javax.xml.transform.Source supplied)
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    Give this ExternalObjectModel the opportunity of recognising a Source object and returning an ActiveSource, which will be used to send an instance of this external model to a supplied Receiver. The default implementation returns null.
    
    Parameters:
    
    supplied - a supplied Source
    
    Returns:
    
    an ActiveSource object if the source is recognised, or null if not
    
    Since:
    
    11 (introduced to give more cross-platform compatibility)
  - unravel
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NodeInfo unravel(javax.xml.transform.Source source,
                 Configuration config)
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    Wrap or unwrap a node using this object model to return the corresponding erSaxon node. If the supplied source does not belong to this object model, return null
    
    Parameters:
    
    source - a JAXP Source object
    
    config - the Saxon configuration
    
    Returns:
    
    a NodeInfo corresponding to the Source, if this can be constructed; otherwise null

Interface ExternalObjectModel

Method Summary

Method Detail

getDocumentClassName

getIdentifyingURI

getPJConverter

getJPConverter

getNodeListCreator

getDocumentBuilder

getActiveSource

unravel