org.apache.xerces.impl.dv

Class DTDDVFactory

java.lang.Object

org.apache.xerces.impl.dv.DTDDVFactory

Direct Known Subclasses:

DTDDVFactoryImpl

public abstract class DTDDVFactory
extends Object

The factory to create and return DTD types. The implementation should store the created datatypes in static data, so that they can be shared by multiple parser instance, and multiple threads.

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Sandy Gao, IBM

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor and Description
protected	DTDDVFactory()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
abstract DatatypeValidator	getBuiltInDV(String name) return a dtd type of the given name
abstract Hashtable	getBuiltInTypes() get all built-in DVs, which are stored in a hashtable keyed by the name
static DTDDVFactory	getInstance() Get an instance of the default DTDDVFactory implementation.
static DTDDVFactory	getInstance(String factoryClass) Get an instance of DTDDVFactory implementation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DTDDVFactory

protected DTDDVFactory()

Method Detail

getInstance

public static final DTDDVFactory getInstance()
                                      throws DVFactoryException

Get an instance of the default DTDDVFactory implementation.

Returns:

an instance of DTDDVFactory implementation

Throws:

DVFactoryException - cannot create an instance of the specified class name or the default class name

getInstance

public static final DTDDVFactory getInstance(String factoryClass)
                                      throws DVFactoryException

Get an instance of DTDDVFactory implementation.

Parameters:

factoryClass - name of the implementation to load.

Returns:

an instance of DTDDVFactory implementation

Throws:

DVFactoryException - cannot create an instance of the specified class name or the default class name

getBuiltInDV

public abstract DatatypeValidator getBuiltInDV(String name)

return a dtd type of the given name

Parameters:

name - the name of the datatype

Returns:

the datatype validator of the given name

getBuiltInTypes

public abstract Hashtable getBuiltInTypes()

get all built-in DVs, which are stored in a hashtable keyed by the name

Returns:

a hashtable which contains all datatypes