Text

Class Overview

The Text interface inherits from CharacterData and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an Element or Attr. If there is no markup inside an element's content, the text is contained in a single object implementing the Text interface that is the only child of the element. If there is markup, it is parsed into the information items (elements, comments, etc.) and Text nodes that form the list of children of the element.

When a document is first made available via the DOM, there is only one Text node for each block of text. Users may create adjacent Text nodes that represent the contents of a given element without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, so they will not (in general) persist between DOM editing sessions. The Node.normalize() method merges any such adjacent Text objects into a single node for each block of text.

No lexical check is done on the content of a Text node and, depending on its position in the document, some characters must be escaped during serialization using character references; e.g. the characters "<&" if the textual content is part of an element or of an attribute, the character sequence "]]>" when part of an element, the quotation mark character " or the apostrophe character ' when part of an attribute.

Summary

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Inherited Constants

From interface org.w3c.dom.Node

Public Methods
abstract String	getWholeText() Returns all text of `Text` nodes logically-adjacent text nodes to this node, concatenated in document order.
abstract boolean	isElementContentWhitespace() Returns whether this text node contains element content whitespace, often abusively called "ignorable whitespace".
abstract Text	replaceWholeText(String content) Replaces the text of the current node and all logically-adjacent text nodes with the specified text.
abstract Text	splitText(int offset) Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified `offset`, keeping both in the tree as siblings.

Public Methods

abstract String

getWholeText()

Returns all text of Text nodes logically-adjacent text nodes to this node, concatenated in document order.

abstract boolean

isElementContentWhitespace()

Returns whether this text node contains element content whitespace, often abusively called "ignorable whitespace".

abstract Text

replaceWholeText(String content)

Replaces the text of the current node and all logically-adjacent text nodes with the specified text.

abstract Text

splitText(int offset)

Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset, keeping both in the tree as siblings.

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Inherited Methods

From interface org.w3c.dom.CharacterData

abstract void	appendData(String arg) Append the string to the end of the character data of the node.
abstract void	deleteData(int offset, int count) Remove a range of 16-bit units from the node.
abstract String	getData() The character data of the node that implements this interface.
abstract int	getLength() The number of 16-bit units that are available through `data` and the `substringData` method below.
abstract void	insertData(int offset, String arg) Insert a string at the specified 16-bit unit offset.
abstract void	replaceData(int offset, int count, String arg) Replace the characters starting at the specified 16-bit unit offset with the specified string.
abstract void	setData(String data) The character data of the node that implements this interface.
abstract String	substringData(int offset, int count) Extracts a range of data from the node.

From interface org.w3c.dom.Node

abstract Node	appendChild(Node newChild) Adds the node `newChild` to the end of the list of children of this node.
abstract Node	cloneNode(boolean deep) Returns a duplicate of this node, i.e., serves as a generic copy constructor for nodes.
abstract short	compareDocumentPosition(Node other) Compares the reference node, i.e.
abstract NamedNodeMap	getAttributes() A `NamedNodeMap` containing the attributes of this node (if it is an `Element`) or `null` otherwise.
abstract String	getBaseURI() The absolute base URI of this node or `null` if the implementation wasn't able to obtain an absolute URI.
abstract NodeList	getChildNodes() A `NodeList` that contains all children of this node.
abstract Object	getFeature(String feature, String version) This method returns a specialized object which implements the specialized APIs of the specified feature and version, as specified in .
abstract Node	getFirstChild() The first child of this node.
abstract Node	getLastChild() The last child of this node.
abstract String	getLocalName() Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node.
abstract String	getNamespaceURI() The namespace URI of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified (see ).
abstract Node	getNextSibling() The node immediately following this node.
abstract String	getNodeName() The name of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
abstract short	getNodeType() A code representing the type of the underlying object, as defined above.
abstract String	getNodeValue() The value of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
abstract Document	getOwnerDocument() The `Document` object associated with this node.
abstract Node	getParentNode() The parent of this node.
abstract String	getPrefix() The namespace prefix of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified.
abstract Node	getPreviousSibling() The node immediately preceding this node.
abstract String	getTextContent() This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants.
abstract Object	getUserData(String key) Retrieves the object associated to a key on a this node.
abstract boolean	hasAttributes() Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes.
abstract boolean	hasChildNodes() Returns whether this node has any children.
abstract Node	insertBefore(Node newChild, Node refChild) Inserts the node `newChild` before the existing child node `refChild`.
abstract boolean	isDefaultNamespace(String namespaceURI) This method checks if the specified `namespaceURI` is the default namespace or not.
abstract boolean	isEqualNode(Node arg) Tests whether two nodes are equal.
abstract boolean	isSameNode(Node other) Returns whether this node is the same node as the given one.
abstract boolean	isSupported(String feature, String version) Tests whether the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and that feature is supported by this node, as specified in .
abstract String	lookupNamespaceURI(String prefix) Look up the namespace URI associated to the given prefix, starting from this node.
abstract String	lookupPrefix(String namespaceURI) Look up the prefix associated to the given namespace URI, starting from this node.
abstract void	normalize() Puts all `Text` nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree underneath this `Node`, including attribute nodes, into a "normal" form where only structure (e.g., elements, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates `Text` nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent `Text` nodes nor empty `Text` nodes.
abstract Node	removeChild(Node oldChild) Removes the child node indicated by `oldChild` from the list of children, and returns it.
abstract Node	replaceChild(Node newChild, Node oldChild) Replaces the child node `oldChild` with `newChild` in the list of children, and returns the `oldChild` node.
abstract void	setNodeValue(String nodeValue) The value of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
abstract void	setPrefix(String prefix) The namespace prefix of this node, or `null` if it is unspecified.
abstract void	setTextContent(String textContent) This attribute returns the text content of this node and its descendants.
abstract Object	setUserData(String key, Object data, UserDataHandler handler) Associate an object to a key on this node.

Public Methods

public abstract String getWholeText ()

Added in API level 8

Returns all text of Text nodes logically-adjacent text nodes to this node, concatenated in document order.
For instance, in the example below wholeText on the Text node that contains "bar" returns "barfoo", while on the Text node that contains "foo" it returns "barfoo".

public abstract boolean isElementContentWhitespace ()

Added in API level 8

Returns whether this text node contains element content whitespace, often abusively called "ignorable whitespace". The text node is determined to contain whitespace in element content during the load of the document or if validation occurs while using Document.normalizeDocument().

public abstract Text replaceWholeText (String content)

Added in API level 8

Replaces the text of the current node and all logically-adjacent text nodes with the specified text. All logically-adjacent text nodes are removed including the current node unless it was the recipient of the replacement text.
This method returns the node which received the replacement text. The returned node is:

null, when the replacement text is the empty string;
the current node, except when the current node is read-only;
a new Text node of the same type ( Text or CDATASection) as the current node inserted at the location of the replacement.

For instance, in the above example calling replaceWholeText on the Text node that contains "bar" with "yo" in argument results in the following:
Where the nodes to be removed are read-only descendants of an EntityReference, the EntityReference must be removed instead of the read-only nodes. If any EntityReference to be removed has descendants that are not EntityReference, Text, or CDATASection nodes, the replaceWholeText method must fail before performing any modification of the document, raising a DOMException with the code NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR.
For instance, in the example below calling replaceWholeText on the Text node that contains "bar" fails, because the EntityReference node "ent" contains an Element node which cannot be removed.

Parameters

content	The content of the replacing `Text` node.

Returns

The Text node created with the specified content.

Throws

DOMException	NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if one of the `Text` nodes being replaced is readonly.

public abstract Text splitText (int offset)

Added in API level 1

Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset, keeping both in the tree as siblings. After being split, this node will contain all the content up to the offset point. A new node of the same type, which contains all the content at and after the offset point, is returned. If the original node had a parent node, the new node is inserted as the next sibling of the original node. When the offset is equal to the length of this node, the new node has no data.

Parameters

offset	The 16-bit unit offset at which to split, starting from `0`.

Returns

The new node, of the same type as this node.

Throws

DOMException	INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater than the number of 16-bit units in `data`. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.

Results

Interfaces

Exceptions

Class Overview

Summary

Public Methods

public abstract String getWholeText ()

public abstract boolean isElementContentWhitespace ()

public abstract Text replaceWholeText (String content)

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Throws

public abstract Text splitText (int offset)

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