org.htmlunit.html

Class UnknownElementFactory

java.lang.Object

org.htmlunit.html.UnknownElementFactory

All Implemented Interfaces:

ElementFactory

public final class UnknownElementFactory
extends Object
implements ElementFactory

A factory for elements encountered in parsing the input which are not represented by dedicated element classes.

Author:

Christian Sell, Ahmed Ashour, David K. Taylor, Ronald Brill, Frank Danek

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static UnknownElementFactory	INSTANCE The singleton instance.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
HtmlElement	createElement(SgmlPage page, String tagName, Attributes attributes) Creates an element according to this factory's specification.
HtmlElement	createElementNS(SgmlPage page, String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName, Attributes attributes) Creates an element according to this factory's specification.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

INSTANCE

public static final UnknownElementFactory INSTANCE

The singleton instance.

Method Detail

createElement

public HtmlElement createElement(SgmlPage page,
                                 String tagName,
                                 Attributes attributes)

Creates an element according to this factory's specification. Note that even though this method takes a page parameter, the element is not automatically added to the page's DOM tree.

Specified by:

createElement in interface ElementFactory

Parameters:

page - the enclosing page for the new element

tagName - the tag name (most factories will be responsible for a specific tag, but this parameter is passed in for factories that don't follow this rule)

attributes - the attributes encountered during XML/HTML parsing (possibly null if no attributes specified

Returns:

the newly created and initialized element

createElementNS

public HtmlElement createElementNS(SgmlPage page,
                                   String namespaceURI,
                                   String qualifiedName,
                                   Attributes attributes)

Creates an element according to this factory's specification. Note that even though this method takes a page parameter, the element is not automatically added to the page's DOM tree.

Specified by:

createElementNS in interface ElementFactory

Parameters:

page - the enclosing page for the new element

namespaceURI - the URI that identifies an XML namespace

qualifiedName - the qualified name of the element type to instantiate

attributes - the attributes encountered during XML/HTML parsing (possibly null if no attributes specified

Returns:

the newly created and initialized element