org.apache.xerces.impl.dv

Class DTDDVFactory

Known Direct Subclasses:
DTDDVFactoryImpl

public abstract class DTDDVFactory
extends java.lang.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: DTDDVFactory.java,v 1.9 2004/10/06 14:56:50 mrglavas Exp $
Author:
Sandy Gao, IBM

Constructor Summary

DTDDVFactory()

Method Summary

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.

Constructor Details

DTDDVFactory

protected DTDDVFactory()

Method Details

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

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

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