uk.ac.ed.epcc.safe.accounting.update

Interface PropertyContainerDomParser

All Superinterfaces:

PropertyContainerUpdater

All Known Implementing Classes:

XMLPropertyDomParser

public interface PropertyContainerDomParser
extends PropertyContainerUpdater

An XML oriented parser. A single class may implement both this interface and PropertyContainerParser by having the string parse method parse the string into a DOM tree and forward onto the DOM parse method.

Author:

spb

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.util.Set<PropertyTag>	defines(org.w3c.dom.Node record) Return the set of PropertyTags that may be defined by the record Node No attempt is made to parse the actual content so this method may be used on a template document where no actual values are specified.
boolean	parse(PropertyMap map, org.w3c.dom.Node record) Parse a Dom representation of a UsageRecord in an XML format.

Methods inherited from interface uk.ac.ed.epcc.safe.accounting.update.PropertyContainerUpdater

endParse, getDerivedProperties, initFinder, modifyDefaultTableSpecification, startParse

Method Detail

parse

boolean parse(PropertyMap map,
            org.w3c.dom.Node record)
              throws AccountingParseException

Parse a Dom representation of a UsageRecord in an XML format. If the parse needs to be aborted throw an AccountingParseException. If the parse cannot succeed but no error needs to be reported (e.g. an empty or comment line) this method can return false

Throws:

AccountingParseException

Parameters:

map - PropertyMap to add quantities

record -

Returns:

true if parse ok

defines

java.util.Set<PropertyTag> defines(org.w3c.dom.Node record)

Return the set of PropertyTags that may be defined by the record Node No attempt is made to parse the actual content so this method may be used on a template document where no actual values are specified.

Parameters:

record -

Returns:

Set of PropertyTag