org.jfree.layouting.normalizer.content
Interface Normalizer

All Superinterfaces:

StatefullComponent

All Known Implementing Classes:

ChainingNormalizer, ContentNormalizer, RecordingContentNormalizer

public interface Normalizer
extends StatefullComponent

The normalizer is the first stage of the content processing. A normalizer is responsible for auto-generating content and for assigning styles to the logical document tree.

Author:

Thomas Morgner

Method Summary

void	addText(java.lang.String text) Adds text content to the current element.
void	endDocument() Ends the document.
void	endElement() Ends the current element.
Renderer	getRenderer() Returns the renderer.
void	handlePageBreak(CSSValue pageName, PseudoPage[] pseudoPages)
void	startDocument() Start document is the first call to the normalizer.
void	startElement(java.lang.String namespace, java.lang.String tag, AttributeMap attributes) Starts a new element.

Methods inherited from interface org.jfree.layouting.StatefullComponent

saveState

Method Detail

startDocument

void startDocument()
                   throws NormalizationException,
                          java.io.IOException

Start document is the first call to the normalizer. At this point, all meta-data has been given and the document context is filled correctly. Starting the document also starts a new PageContext.

Throws:

NormalizationException

java.io.IOException

startElement

void startElement(java.lang.String namespace,
                  java.lang.String tag,
                  AttributeMap attributes)
                  throws NormalizationException,
                         java.io.IOException

Starts a new element. The element uses the given namespace and tagname. The element's attributes are given as collection, each attribute is keyed with a namespace and attributename. The values contained in the attributes are not defined.

Parameters:

namespace -

tag -

attributes -

Throws:

NormalizationException

java.io.IOException

addText

void addText(java.lang.String text)
             throws NormalizationException,
                    java.io.IOException

Adds text content to the current element.

Parameters:

text -

Throws:

NormalizationException

java.io.IOException

endElement

void endElement()
                throws NormalizationException,
                       java.io.IOException

Ends the current element. The namespace and tagname are given for convienience.

Parameters:

namespace -

tag -

Throws:

NormalizationException

java.io.IOException

endDocument

void endDocument()
                 throws NormalizationException,
                        java.io.IOException

Ends the document. No other events will be fired against this normalizer once this method has been called.

Throws:

NormalizationException

java.io.IOException

handlePageBreak

void handlePageBreak(CSSValue pageName,
                     PseudoPage[] pseudoPages)
                     throws NormalizationException

Throws:

NormalizationException

getRenderer

Renderer getRenderer()

Returns the renderer. The renderer is the last step in the processing chain. The ModelBuilder and ContentGenerator steps are considered internal, as they may refeed the normalizer.

Returns: