net.sf.saxon.om
Interface VirtualNode

All Superinterfaces:

Item, NodeInfo, javax.xml.transform.Source, ValueRepresentation

All Known Implementing Classes:

NodeWrapper, NodeWrapper, NodeWrapper, StrippedNode

public interface VirtualNode

extends NodeInfo

This interface is implemented by NodeInfo implementations that act as wrappers on some underlying tree. It provides a method to access the real node underlying the virtual node, for use by applications that need to drill down to the underlying data.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.NodeInfo

ALL_NAMESPACES, EMPTY_NAMESPACE_LIST, IS_DTD_TYPE, LOCAL_NAMESPACES, NO_NAMESPACES

Fields inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.ValueRepresentation

EMPTY_VALUE_ARRAY

Method Summary

java.lang.Object

getUnderlyingNode() Get the real node undelying this virtual node.

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.NodeInfo

atomize, compareOrder, copy, equals, generateId, getAttributeValue, getBaseURI, getConfiguration, getDeclaredNamespaces, getDisplayName, getDocumentNumber, getDocumentRoot, getFingerprint, getLineNumber, getLocalPart, getNameCode, getNamePool, getNodeKind, getParent, getPrefix, getRoot, getStringValue, getSystemId, getTypeAnnotation, getURI, hasChildNodes, hashCode, isSameNodeInfo, iterateAxis, iterateAxis, sendNamespaceDeclarations

Methods inherited from interface javax.xml.transform.Source

setSystemId

Methods inherited from interface net.sf.saxon.om.Item

getStringValueCS, getTypedValue

Method Detail

getUnderlyingNode

public java.lang.Object getUnderlyingNode()

Get the real node undelying this virtual node. Note that this may itself be a VirtualNode; you may have to drill down through several layers of wrapping.

In some cases a single VirtualNode may represent an XPath text node that maps to a sequence of adjacent nodes (for example text nodes and CDATA nodes) in the underlying tree. In this case the first node in this sequence is returned.

Returns:

The underlying node.