Class DomCharacterData

java.lang.Object
org.htmlunit.html.DomNode
org.htmlunit.html.DomCharacterData
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Cloneable, CharacterData, Node
Direct Known Subclasses:
DomComment, DomText

public abstract class DomCharacterData extends DomNode implements CharacterData
Wrapper for the DOM node CharacterData.
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  • Constructor Details

    • DomCharacterData

      public DomCharacterData(SgmlPage page, String data)
      Creates an instance of DomCharacterData.
      Parameters:
      page - the Page that contains this element
      data - the data string wrapped by this node
  • Method Details

    • getData

      public String getData()
      Gets the data character string for this character data node.
      Specified by:
      getData in interface CharacterData
      Returns:
      the data character string
    • setData

      public void setData(String data)
      Sets the data character string for this character data node.
      Specified by:
      setData in interface CharacterData
      Parameters:
      data - the new data character string
    • setNodeValue

      public void setNodeValue(String newValue)
      Sets the data character string to the new string.
      Specified by:
      setNodeValue in interface Node
      Parameters:
      newValue - the new string of data
    • setTextContent

      public void setTextContent(String textContent)
      Specified by:
      setTextContent in interface Node
      Overrides:
      setTextContent in class DomNode
    • getLength

      public int getLength()
      Returns the number of characters in the character data.
      Specified by:
      getLength in interface CharacterData
      Returns:
      the number of characters
    • appendData

      public void appendData(String newData)
      Appends a string to character data.
      Specified by:
      appendData in interface CharacterData
      Parameters:
      newData - the string to be appended to the character data
    • deleteData

      public void deleteData(int offset, int count)
      Deletes characters from character data.
      Specified by:
      deleteData in interface CharacterData
      Parameters:
      offset - the position of the first character to be deleted (can't be less than zero)
      count - the number of characters to be deleted, if less than zero leaves the first offset chars
    • insertData

      public void insertData(int offset, String arg)
      Inserts a string into character data.
      Specified by:
      insertData in interface CharacterData
      Parameters:
      offset - the position within the first character at which the string is to be inserted
      arg - the string to insert
    • replaceData

      public void replaceData(int offset, int count, String arg)
      Replaces characters of character data with a string.
      Specified by:
      replaceData in interface CharacterData
      Parameters:
      offset - the position within the first character at which the string is to be replaced
      count - the number of characters to be replaced
      arg - the string that replaces the count characters beginning at the character at offset
    • substringData

      public String substringData(int offset, int count)
      Extracts a substring from character data.
      Specified by:
      substringData in interface CharacterData
      Parameters:
      offset - the position of the first character to be extracted
      count - the number of characters to be extracted
      Returns:
      a string that consists of the count characters of the character data starting from the character at position offset
    • getNodeValue

      public String getNodeValue()
      Specified by:
      getNodeValue in interface Node
      Overrides:
      getNodeValue in class DomNode
      Returns:
      the string data held by this node
    • getCanonicalXPath

      public String getCanonicalXPath()

      Returns the canonical XPath expression which identifies this node, for instance "/html/body/table[3]/tbody/tr[5]/td[2]/span/a[3]".

      WARNING: This sort of automated XPath expression is often quite bad at identifying a node, as it is highly sensitive to changes in the DOM tree.

      Overrides:
      getCanonicalXPath in class DomNode
      Returns:
      the canonical XPath expression which identifies this node
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