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public class: Digester [javadoc | source]
java.lang.Object
   org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler
      org.apache.commons.digester.Digester

All Implemented Interfaces:
    ErrorHandler, EntityResolver, ContentHandler, DTDHandler

Direct Known Subclasses:
    RSSDigester

A Digester processes an XML input stream by matching a series of element nesting patterns to execute Rules that have been added prior to the start of parsing.

See the Digester Developer Guide for more information.

IMPLEMENTATION NOTE - A single Digester instance may only be used within the context of a single thread at a time, and a call to parse() must be completed before another can be initiated even from the same thread.

A Digester instance should not be used for parsing more than one input document. The problem is that the Digester class has quite a few member variables whose values "evolve" as SAX events are received during a parse. When reusing the Digester instance, all these members must be reset back to their initial states before the second parse begins. The "clear()" method makes a stab at resetting these, but it is actually rather a difficult problem. If you are determined to reuse Digester instances, then at the least you should call the clear() method before each parse, and must call it if the Digester parse terminates due to an exception during a parse.

LEGACY IMPLEMENTATION NOTE - When using the legacy XML schema support (instead of using the Schema class), a bug in Xerces 2.0.2 prevents the support of XML schema. You need Xerces 2.1/2.3 and up to make this class work with the legacy XML schema support.

This package was inspired by the XmlMapper class that was part of Tomcat 3.0 and 3.1, but is organized somewhat differently.

Field Summary
protected  StringBuffer bodyText    The body text of the current element. 
protected  Stack<StringBuffer> bodyTexts    The stack of body text string buffers for surrounding elements. 
protected  Stack<Rule> matches    Stack whose elements are List objects, each containing a list of Rule objects as returned from Rules.getMatch(). As each xml element in the input is entered, the matching rules are pushed onto this stack. After the end tag is reached, the matches are popped again. The depth of is stack is therefore exactly the same as the current "nesting" level of the input xml.
    since: 1.6 -
 
protected  ClassLoader classLoader    The class loader to use for instantiating application objects. If not specified, the context class loader, or the class loader used to load Digester itself, is used, based on the value of the useContextClassLoader variable. 
protected  boolean configured    Has this Digester been configured yet. 
protected  EntityResolver entityResolver    The EntityResolver used by the SAX parser. By default it use this class 
protected  HashMap<String, URL> entityValidator    The URLs of entityValidator that have been registered, keyed by the public identifier that corresponds. 
protected  ErrorHandler errorHandler    The application-supplied error handler that is notified when parsing warnings, errors, or fatal errors occur. 
protected  SAXParserFactory factory    The SAXParserFactory that is created the first time we need it. 
protected  String JAXP_SCHEMA_LANGUAGE   
     
    protected  Locator locator    The Locator associated with our parser. 
    protected  String match    The current match pattern for nested element processing. 
    protected  boolean namespaceAware    Do we want a "namespace aware" parser. 
    protected  HashMap<String> namespaces    Registered namespaces we are currently processing. The key is the namespace prefix that was declared in the document. The value is an Stack of the namespace URIs this prefix has been mapped to -- the top Stack element is the most current one. (This architecture is required because documents can declare nested uses of the same prefix for different Namespace URIs). 
    protected  boolean xincludeAware    Do we want a "XInclude aware" parser. 
    protected  Stack<Object> params    The parameters stack being utilized by CallMethodRule and CallParamRule rules.
      since: 2.0 -
     
    protected  SAXParser parser    The SAXParser we will use to parse the input stream. 
    protected  String publicId    The public identifier of the DTD we are currently parsing under (if any). 
    protected  XMLReader reader    The XMLReader used to parse digester rules. 
    protected  Object root    The "root" element of the stack (in other words, the last object that was popped. 
    protected  Rules rules    The Rules implementation containing our collection of Rule instances and associated matching policy. If not established before the first rule is added, a default implementation will be provided. 
    protected  String schemaLanguage    The XML schema language to use for validating an XML instance. By default this value is set to W3C_XML_SCHEMA
       
      protected  String schemaLocation    The XML schema to use for validating an XML instance.
         
        protected  Schema schema    The XML schema to use for validating an XML instance.
          since: 2.0 -
         
        protected  Stack<Object> stack    The object stack being constructed. 
        protected  boolean useContextClassLoader    Do we want to use the Context ClassLoader when loading classes for instantiating new objects. Default is false
        protected  boolean validating    Do we want to use a validating parser. 
        protected  Log log    The Log to which most logging calls will be made. 
        protected  Log saxLog    The Log to which all SAX event related logging calls will be made. 
        protected static final  String W3C_XML_SCHEMA    The schema language supported. By default, we use this one. 
        protected  Substitutor substitutor    An optional class that substitutes values in attributes and body text. This may be null and so a null check is always required before use. 
        protected  List<InputSource> inputSources   

        List of InputSource instances created by a createInputSourceFromURL() method call. These represent open input streams that need to be closed to avoid resource leaks, as well as potentially locked JAR files on Windows.

         
        Constructor:
         public Digester() 
         public Digester(SAXParser parser) 
          Construct a new Digester, allowing a SAXParser to be passed in. This allows Digester to be used in environments which are unfriendly to JAXP1.1 (such as WebLogic 6.0). This may help in places where you are able to load JAXP 1.1 classes yourself.
         public Digester(XMLReader reader) 
          Construct a new Digester, allowing an XMLReader to be passed in. This allows Digester to be used in environments which are unfriendly to JAXP1.1 (such as WebLogic 6.0). Note that if you use this option you have to configure namespace and validation support yourself, as these properties only affect the SAXParser and emtpy constructor.
        Method from org.apache.commons.digester.Digester Summary:
        addBeanPropertySetter,   addBeanPropertySetter,   addCallMethod,   addCallMethod,   addCallMethod,   addCallMethod,   addCallParam,   addCallParam,   addCallParam,   addCallParam,   addCallParamPath,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addFactoryCreate,   addObjectCreate,   addObjectCreate,   addObjectCreate,   addObjectCreate,   addObjectParam,   addRule,   addRuleSet,   addSetNestedProperties,   addSetNestedProperties,   addSetNestedProperties,   addSetNext,   addSetNext,   addSetProperties,   addSetProperties,   addSetProperties,   addSetProperty,   addSetRoot,   addSetRoot,   addSetTop,   addSetTop,   characters,   cleanup,   clear,   configure,   createInputSourceFromURL,   createInputSourceFromURL,   createSAXException,   createSAXException,   createSAXException,   endDocument,   endElement,   endPrefixMapping,   error,   fatalError,   findNamespaceURI,   getClassLoader,   getCount,   getCurrentElementName,   getCurrentNamespaces,   getCustomContentHandler,   getDebug,   getDocumentLocator,   getEntityResolver,   getErrorHandler,   getFactory,   getFeature,   getLogger,   getMatch,   getNamespaceAware,   getParser,   getProperty,   getPublicId,   getReader,   getRegistrations,   getRoot,   getRuleNamespaceURI,   getRules,   getRules,   getSAXLogger,   getSchema,   getSchemaLanguage,   getStackAction,   getSubstitutor,   getUseContextClassLoader,   getValidating,   getXIncludeAware,   getXMLReader,   getXMLSchema,   ignorableWhitespace,   initialize,   isEmpty,   log,   log,   notationDecl,   parse,   parse,   parse,   parse,   parse,   parse,   peek,   peek,   peek,   peek,   peekParams,   peekParams,   pop,   pop,   popParams,   processingInstruction,   push,   push,   pushParams,   register,   register,   resetRoot,   resolveEntity,   setClassLoader,   setCustomContentHandler,   setDebug,   setDocumentLocator,   setEntityResolver,   setErrorHandler,   setFeature,   setLogger,   setNamespaceAware,   setProperty,   setPublicId,   setRuleNamespaceURI,   setRules,   setSAXLogger,   setSchema,   setSchemaLanguage,   setStackAction,   setSubstitutor,   setUseContextClassLoader,   setValidating,   setXIncludeAware,   setXMLSchema,   skippedEntity,   startDocument,   startElement,   startPrefixMapping,   unparsedEntityDecl,   warning
        Methods from org.xml.sax.helpers.DefaultHandler:
        characters,   endDocument,   endElement,   endPrefixMapping,   error,   fatalError,   ignorableWhitespace,   notationDecl,   processingInstruction,   resolveEntity,   setDocumentLocator,   skippedEntity,   startDocument,   startElement,   startPrefixMapping,   unparsedEntityDecl,   warning
        Methods from java.lang.Object:
        clone,   equals,   finalize,   getClass,   hashCode,   notify,   notifyAll,   toString,   wait,   wait,   wait
        Method from org.apache.commons.digester.Digester Detail:
         public  void addBeanPropertySetter(String pattern) 
          Add a "bean property setter" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addBeanPropertySetter(String pattern,
            String propertyName) 
          Add a "bean property setter" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addCallMethod(String pattern,
            String methodName) 
          Add an "call method" rule for a method which accepts no arguments.
         public  void addCallMethod(String pattern,
            String methodName,
            int paramCount) 
          Add an "call method" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addCallMethod(String pattern,
            String methodName,
            int paramCount,
            String[] paramTypes) 
          Add an "call method" rule for the specified parameters. If paramCount is set to zero the rule will use the body of the matched element as the single argument of the method, unless paramTypes is null or empty, in this case the rule will call the specified method with no arguments.
         public  void addCallMethod(String pattern,
            String methodName,
            int paramCount,
            Class<?>[] paramTypes) 
          Add an "call method" rule for the specified parameters. If paramCount is set to zero the rule will use the body of the matched element as the single argument of the method, unless paramTypes is null or empty, in this case the rule will call the specified method with no arguments.
         public  void addCallParam(String pattern,
            int paramIndex) 
          Add a "call parameter" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addCallParam(String pattern,
            int paramIndex,
            String attributeName) 
          Add a "call parameter" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addCallParam(String pattern,
            int paramIndex,
            boolean fromStack) 
          Add a "call parameter" rule. This will either take a parameter from the stack or from the current element body text.
         public  void addCallParam(String pattern,
            int paramIndex,
            int stackIndex) 
          Add a "call parameter" rule that sets a parameter from the stack. This takes a parameter from the given position on the stack.
         public  void addCallParamPath(String pattern,
            int paramIndex) 
          Add a "call parameter" rule that sets a parameter from the current Digester matching path. This is sometimes useful when using rules that support wildcards.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            String className) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters. Exceptions thrown during the object creation process will be propagated.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            Class<?> clazz) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters. Exceptions thrown during the object creation process will be propagated.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            ObjectCreationFactory creationFactory) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters. Exceptions thrown during the object creation process will be propagated.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            String className,
            String attributeName) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters. Exceptions thrown during the object creation process will be propagated.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            Class<?> clazz,
            String attributeName) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters. Exceptions thrown during the object creation process will be propagated.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            String className,
            boolean ignoreCreateExceptions) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            Class<?> clazz,
            boolean ignoreCreateExceptions) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            ObjectCreationFactory creationFactory,
            boolean ignoreCreateExceptions) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            String className,
            String attributeName,
            boolean ignoreCreateExceptions) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addFactoryCreate(String pattern,
            Class<?> clazz,
            String attributeName,
            boolean ignoreCreateExceptions) 
          Add a "factory create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addObjectCreate(String pattern,
            String className) 
          Add an "object create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addObjectCreate(String pattern,
            Class<?> clazz) 
          Add an "object create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addObjectCreate(String pattern,
            String className,
            String attributeName) 
          Add an "object create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addObjectCreate(String pattern,
            String attributeName,
            Class<?> clazz) 
          Add an "object create" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addObjectParam(String pattern,
            int paramIndex,
            Object paramObj) 
          Add a "call parameter" rule that sets a parameter from a caller-provided object. This can be used to pass constants such as strings to methods; it can also be used to pass mutable objects, providing ways for objects to do things like "register" themselves with some shared object.

          Note that when attempting to locate a matching method to invoke, the true type of the paramObj is used, so that despite the paramObj being passed in here as type Object, the target method can declare its parameters as being the true type of the object (or some ancestor type, according to the usual type-conversion rules).

         public  void addRule(String pattern,
            Rule rule) 

          Register a new Rule matching the specified pattern. This method sets the Digester property on the rule.

         public  void addRuleSet(RuleSet ruleSet) 
          Register a set of Rule instances defined in a RuleSet.
         public  void addSetNestedProperties(String pattern) 
         public  void addSetNestedProperties(String pattern,
            String elementName,
            String propertyName) 
         public  void addSetNestedProperties(String pattern,
            String[] elementNames,
            String[] propertyNames) 
         public  void addSetNext(String pattern,
            String methodName) 
          Add a "set next" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addSetNext(String pattern,
            String methodName,
            String paramType) 
          Add a "set next" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addSetProperties(String pattern) 
          Add a "set properties" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addSetProperties(String pattern,
            String attributeName,
            String propertyName) 
         public  void addSetProperties(String pattern,
            String[] attributeNames,
            String[] propertyNames) 
         public  void addSetProperty(String pattern,
            String name,
            String value) 
          Add a "set property" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addSetRoot(String pattern,
            String methodName) 
         public  void addSetRoot(String pattern,
            String methodName,
            String paramType) 
         public  void addSetTop(String pattern,
            String methodName) 
          Add a "set top" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void addSetTop(String pattern,
            String methodName,
            String paramType) 
          Add a "set top" rule for the specified parameters.
         public  void characters(char[] buffer,
            int start,
            int length) throws SAXException 
          Process notification of character data received from the body of an XML element.
         protected  void cleanup() 

          Clean up allocated resources after parsing is complete. The default method closes input streams that have been created by Digester itself. If you override this method in a subclass, be sure to call super.cleanup() to invoke this logic.

         public  void clear() 
          Clear the current contents of the default object stack, the param stack, all named stacks, and other internal variables.

          Calling this method might allow another document of the same type to be correctly parsed. However this method was not intended for this purpose (just to tidy up memory usage). In general, a separate Digester object should be created for each document to be parsed.

          Note that this method is called automatically after a document has been successfully parsed by a Digester instance. However it is not invoked automatically when a parse fails, so when reusing a Digester instance (which is not recommended) this method must be called manually after a parse failure.

         protected  void configure() 

          Provide a hook for lazy configuration of this Digester instance. The default implementation does nothing, but subclasses can override as needed.

          Note This method may be called more than once. Once only initialization code should be placed in #initialize or the code should take responsibility by checking and setting the #configured flag.

         public InputSource createInputSourceFromURL(URL url) throws MalformedURLException, IOException 
          Given a URL, return an InputSource that reads from that URL.

          Ideally this function would not be needed and code could just use new InputSource(entityURL). Unfortunately it appears that when the entityURL points to a file within a jar archive a caching mechanism inside the InputSource implementation causes a file-handle to the jar file to remain open. On Windows systems this then causes the jar archive file to be locked on disk ("in use") which makes it impossible to delete the jar file - and that really stuffs up "undeploy" in webapps in particular.

          In JDK1.4 and later, Apache XercesJ is used as the xml parser. The InputSource object provided is converted into an XMLInputSource, and eventually passed to an instance of XMLDocumentScannerImpl to specify the source data to be converted into tokens for the rest of the XMLReader code to handle. XMLDocumentScannerImpl calls fEntityManager.startDocumentEntity(source), where fEntityManager is declared in ancestor class XMLScanner to be an XMLEntityManager. In that class, if the input source stream is null, then:

           URL location = new URL(expandedSystemId);
           URLConnection connect = location.openConnection();
           if (connect instanceof HttpURLConnection) {
             setHttpProperties(connect,xmlInputSource);
           }
           stream = connect.getInputStream();
          
          This method pretty much duplicates the standard behaviour, except that it calls URLConnection.setUseCaches(false) before opening the connection.
         public InputSource createInputSourceFromURL(String url) throws MalformedURLException, IOException 

          Convenience method that creates an InputSource from the string version of a URL.

         public SAXException createSAXException(Exception e) 
          Create a SAX exception which also understands about the location in the digester file where the exception occurs
         public SAXException createSAXException(String message) 
          Create a SAX exception which also understands about the location in the digester file where the exception occurs
         public SAXException createSAXException(String message,
            Exception e) 
          Create a SAX exception which also understands about the location in the digester file where the exception occurs
         public  void endDocument() throws SAXException 
          Process notification of the end of the document being reached.
         public  void endElement(String namespaceURI,
            String localName,
            String qName) throws SAXException 
          Process notification of the end of an XML element being reached.
         public  void endPrefixMapping(String prefix) throws SAXException 
          Process notification that a namespace prefix is going out of scope.
         public  void error(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException 
          Forward notification of a parsing error to the application supplied error handler (if any).
         public  void fatalError(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException 
          Forward notification of a fatal parsing error to the application supplied error handler (if any).
         public String findNamespaceURI(String prefix) 
          Return the currently mapped namespace URI for the specified prefix, if any; otherwise return null. These mappings come and go dynamically as the document is parsed.
         public ClassLoader getClassLoader() 
          Return the class loader to be used for instantiating application objects when required. This is determined based upon the following rules:
          • The class loader set by setClassLoader(), if any
          • The thread context class loader, if it exists and the useContextClassLoader property is set to true
          • The class loader used to load the Digester class itself.
         public int getCount() 
          Return the current depth of the element stack.
         public String getCurrentElementName() 
          Return the name of the XML element that is currently being processed.
         public Map<String, String> getCurrentNamespaces() 
          Get the most current namespaces for all prefixes.
         public ContentHandler getCustomContentHandler() 
         public int getDebug() 
        Deprecated! This - method now always returns 0. Digester uses the apache jakarta commons-logging library; see the documentation for that library for more information.

          Return the debugging detail level of our currently enabled logger.
         public Locator getDocumentLocator() 
          Gets the document locator associated with our parser.
         public EntityResolver getEntityResolver() 
          Return the Entity Resolver used by the SAX parser.
         public ErrorHandler getErrorHandler() 
          Return the error handler for this Digester.
         public SAXParserFactory getFactory() 
          Return the SAXParserFactory we will use, creating one if necessary.
         public boolean getFeature(String feature) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXNotRecognizedException, SAXNotSupportedException 
          Returns a flag indicating whether the requested feature is supported by the underlying implementation of org.xml.sax.XMLReader. See the saxproject website for information about the standard SAX2 feature flags.
         public Log getLogger() 
          Return the current Logger associated with this instance of the Digester
         public String getMatch() 
          Return the current rule match path
         public boolean getNamespaceAware() 
          Return the "namespace aware" flag for parsers we create.
         public SAXParser getParser() 
          Return the SAXParser we will use to parse the input stream. If there is a problem creating the parser, return null.
         public Object getProperty(String property) throws SAXNotRecognizedException, SAXNotSupportedException 
          Return the current value of the specified property for the underlying XMLReader implementation. See the saxproject website for information about the standard SAX2 properties.
         public String getPublicId() 
          Return the public identifier of the DTD we are currently parsing under, if any.
         public XMLReader getReader() 
        Deprecated! Use - getXMLReader() instead, which can throw a SAXException if the reader cannot be instantiated

          By setting the reader in the constructor, you can bypass JAXP and be able to use digester in Weblogic 6.0.
         Map<String, URL> getRegistrations() 
          Return the set of DTD URL registrations, keyed by public identifier.
         public Object getRoot() 
          Returns the root element of the tree of objects created as a result of applying the rule objects to the input XML.

          If the digester stack was "primed" by explicitly pushing a root object onto the stack before parsing started, then that root object is returned here.

          Alternatively, if a Rule which creates an object (eg ObjectCreateRule) matched the root element of the xml, then the object created will be returned here.

          In other cases, the object most recently pushed onto an empty digester stack is returned. This would be a most unusual use of digester, however; one of the previous configurations is much more likely.

          Note that when using one of the Digester.parse methods, the return value from the parse method is exactly the same as the return value from this method. However when the Digester is being used as a SAXContentHandler, no such return value is available; in this case, this method allows you to access the root object that has been created after parsing has completed.

         public String getRuleNamespaceURI() 
          Return the namespace URI that will be applied to all subsequently added Rule objects.
         public Rules getRules() 
          Return the Rules implementation object containing our rules collection and associated matching policy. If none has been established, a default implementation will be created and returned.
         List<Rule> getRules(String match) 
        Deprecated! Call - match() on the Rules implementation returned by getRules()

          Return the set of rules that apply to the specified match position. The selected rules are those that match exactly, or those rules that specify a suffix match and the tail of the rule matches the current match position. Exact matches have precedence over suffix matches, then (among suffix matches) the longest match is preferred.
         public Log getSAXLogger() 
          Gets the logger used for logging SAX-related information. Note the output is finely grained.
         public String getSchema() 
        Deprecated! Use - Schema for validation instead.

          Return the XML Schema URI used for validating an XML instance.
         public String getSchemaLanguage() 
        Deprecated! Use - Schema for validation instead.

          Return the XML Schema language used when parsing.
         public StackAction getStackAction() 
          See setStackAction.
         public Substitutor getSubstitutor() 
          Gets the Substitutor used to convert attributes and body text.
         public boolean getUseContextClassLoader() 
          Return the boolean as to whether the context classloader should be used.
         public boolean getValidating() 
          Return the validating parser flag.
         public boolean getXIncludeAware() 
          Return the XInclude-aware flag for parsers we create. XInclude functionality additionally requires namespace-awareness.
         public XMLReader getXMLReader() throws SAXException 
          Return the XMLReader to be used for parsing the input document. FIX ME: there is a bug in JAXP/XERCES that prevent the use of a parser that contains a schema with a DTD.
         public Schema getXMLSchema() 
          Return the XML Schema used when parsing.
         public  void ignorableWhitespace(char[] buffer,
            int start,
            int len) throws SAXException 
          Process notification of ignorable whitespace received from the body of an XML element.
         protected  void initialize() 

          Provides a hook for lazy initialization of this Digester instance. The default implementation does nothing, but subclasses can override as needed. Digester (by default) only calls this method once.

          Note This method will be called by #configure only when the #configured flag is false. Subclasses that override configure or who set configured may find that this method may be called more than once.

         public boolean isEmpty(String stackName) 

          Is the stack with the given name empty?

          Note: a stack is considered empty if no objects have been pushed onto it yet.

         public  void log(String message) 
        Deprecated! Call - getLogger() and use it's logging methods

          Log a message to our associated logger.
         public  void log(String message,
            Throwable exception) 
        Deprecated! Call - getLogger() and use it's logging methods

          Log a message and exception to our associated logger.
         public  void notationDecl(String name,
            String publicId,
            String systemId) 
          Receive notification of a notation declaration event.
         public Object parse(File file) throws IOException, SAXException 
          Parse the content of the specified file using this Digester. Returns the root element from the object stack (if any).
         public Object parse(InputSource input) throws IOException, SAXException 
          Parse the content of the specified input source using this Digester. Returns the root element from the object stack (if any).
         public Object parse(InputStream input) throws IOException, SAXException 
          Parse the content of the specified input stream using this Digester. Returns the root element from the object stack (if any).
         public Object parse(Reader reader) throws IOException, SAXException 
          Parse the content of the specified reader using this Digester. Returns the root element from the object stack (if any).
         public Object parse(String uri) throws IOException, SAXException 
          Parse the content of the specified URI using this Digester. Returns the root element from the object stack (if any).
         public Object parse(URL url) throws IOException, SAXException 
          Parse the content of the specified URL using this Digester. Returns the root element from the object stack (if any).
         public Object peek() 
          Return the top object on the stack without removing it. If there are no objects on the stack, return null.
         public Object peek(int n) 
          Return the n'th object down the stack, where 0 is the top element and [getCount()-1] is the bottom element. If the specified index is out of range, return null.
         public Object peek(String stackName) 

          Gets the top object from the stack with the given name. This method does not remove the object from the stack.

          Note: a stack is considered empty if no objects have been pushed onto it yet.

         public Object peek(String stackName,
            int n) 

          Gets the top object from the stack with the given name. This method does not remove the object from the stack.

          Note: a stack is considered empty if no objects have been pushed onto it yet.

         public Object peekParams() 

          Return the top object on the parameters stack without removing it. If there are no objects on the stack, return null.

          The parameters stack is used to store CallMethodRule parameters. See #params .

         public Object peekParams(int n) 

          Return the n'th object down the parameters stack, where 0 is the top element and [getCount()-1] is the bottom element. If the specified index is out of range, return null.

          The parameters stack is used to store CallMethodRule parameters. See #params .

         public Object pop() 
          Pop the top object off of the stack, and return it. If there are no objects on the stack, return null.
         public Object pop(String stackName) 

          Pops (gets and removes) the top object from the stack with the given name.

          Note: a stack is considered empty if no objects have been pushed onto it yet.

         public Object popParams() 

          Pop the top object off of the parameters stack, and return it. If there are no objects on the stack, return null.

          The parameters stack is used to store CallMethodRule parameters. See #params .

         public  void processingInstruction(String target,
            String data) throws SAXException 
          Process notification of a processing instruction that was encountered.
         public  void push(Object object) 
          Push a new object onto the top of the object stack.
         public  void push(String stackName,
            Object value) 
          Pushes the given object onto the stack with the given name. If no stack already exists with the given name then one will be created.
         public  void pushParams(Object object) 

          Push a new object onto the top of the parameters stack.

          The parameters stack is used to store CallMethodRule parameters. See #params .

         public  void register(String publicId,
            URL entityURL) 

          Register the specified DTD URL for the specified public identifier. This must be called before the first call to parse().

          Digester contains an internal EntityResolver implementation. This maps PUBLICID's to URLs (from which the resource will be loaded). A common use case for this method is to register local URLs (possibly computed at runtime by a classloader) for DTDs. This allows the performance advantage of using a local version without having to ensure every SYSTEM URI on every processed xml document is local. This implementation provides only basic functionality. If more sophisticated features are required, using #setEntityResolver to set a custom resolver is recommended.

          Note: This method will have no effect when a custom EntityResolver has been set. (Setting a custom EntityResolver overrides the internal implementation.)

         public  void register(String publicId,
            String entityURL) 

          Convenience method that registers the string version of an entity URL instead of a URL version.

         public  void resetRoot() 
          This method allows the "root" variable to be reset to null.

          It is not considered safe for a digester instance to be reused to parse multiple xml documents. However if you are determined to do so, then you should call both clear() and resetRoot() before each parse.

         public InputSource resolveEntity(String publicId,
            String systemId) throws SAXException 
          Resolve the requested external entity.
         public  void setClassLoader(ClassLoader classLoader) 
          Set the class loader to be used for instantiating application objects when required.
         public  void setCustomContentHandler(ContentHandler handler) 
          Redirects (or cancels redirecting) of SAX ContentHandler events to an external object.

          When this object's customContentHandler is non-null, any SAX events received from the parser will simply be passed on to the specified object instead of this object handling them. This allows Rule classes to take control of the SAX event stream for a while in order to do custom processing. Such a rule should save the old value before setting a new one, and restore the old value in order to resume normal digester processing.

          An example of a Rule which needs this feature is NodeCreateRule.

          Note that saving the old value is probably not needed as it should always be null; a custom rule that wants to take control could only have been called when there was no custom content handler. But it seems cleaner to properly save/restore the value and maybe some day this will come in useful.

          Note also that this is not quite equivalent to

          digester.getXMLReader().setContentHandler(handler)
          
          for these reasons:
          • Some xml parsers don't like having setContentHandler called after parsing has started. The Aelfred parser is one example.
          • Directing the events via the Digester object potentially allows us to log information about those SAX events at the digester level.
         public  void setDebug(int debug) 
        Deprecated! This - method now has no effect at all. Digester uses the apache jakarta comons-logging library; see the documentation for that library for more information.

          Set the debugging detail level of our currently enabled logger.
         public  void setDocumentLocator(Locator locator) 
          Sets the document locator associated with our parser.
         public  void setEntityResolver(EntityResolver entityResolver) 
          Set the EntityResolver used by SAX when resolving public id and system id. This must be called before the first call to parse().
         public  void setErrorHandler(ErrorHandler errorHandler) 
          Set the error handler for this Digester.
         public  void setFeature(String feature,
            boolean value) throws ParserConfigurationException, SAXNotRecognizedException, SAXNotSupportedException 
          Sets a flag indicating whether the requested feature is supported by the underlying implementation of org.xml.sax.XMLReader. See the saxproject website for information about the standard SAX2 feature flags. In order to be effective, this method must be called before the getParser() method is called for the first time, either directly or indirectly.
         public  void setLogger(Log log) 
          Set the current logger for this Digester.
         public  void setNamespaceAware(boolean namespaceAware) 
          Set the "namespace aware" flag for parsers we create.
         public  void setProperty(String property,
            Object value) throws SAXNotRecognizedException, SAXNotSupportedException 
          Set the current value of the specified property for the underlying XMLReader implementation. See the saxproject website for information about the standard SAX2 properties.
         public  void setPublicId(String publicId) 
          Set the publid id of the current file being parse.
         public  void setRuleNamespaceURI(String ruleNamespaceURI) 
          Set the namespace URI that will be applied to all subsequently added Rule objects.
         public  void setRules(Rules rules) 
          Set the Rules implementation object containing our rules collection and associated matching policy.
         public  void setSAXLogger(Log saxLog) 
          Sets the logger used for logging SAX-related information. Note the output is finely grained.
         public  void setSchema(String schemaLocation) 
        Deprecated! Use - Schema for validation instead.

          Set the XML Schema URI used for validating the input XML.

          It is often desirable to force the input document to be validated against a particular schema regardless of what type the input document declares itself to be. This method allows that to be done.

          Note, however, that there is no standard API for enabling this feature on the underlying SAX parser; this method therefore only works for those parsers explicitly supported by Digester's ParserFeatureSetterFactory class. If the underlying parser does not support the feature, or is not one of the supported parsers, then an exception will be thrown when getParser is called (explicitly, or implicitly via the parse method).

          See also method setSchemaLanguage which allows the type of the schema specified here to be defined. By default, the schema is expected to be a W3C xml schema definition.

          IMPORTANT NOTE: This functionality was never very reliable, and has been horribly broken since the 1.6 release of Digester. There are currently no plans to fix it, so you are strongly recommended to avoid using this method. Instead, create an XMLParser instance yourself, configure validation appropriately, and pass it as a parameter to the Digester constructor.

         public  void setSchemaLanguage(String schemaLanguage) 
        Deprecated! Use - Schema for validation instead.

          Set the XML Schema language used when parsing. By default, we use W3C.
         public  void setStackAction(StackAction stackAction) 
          Define a callback object which is invoked whever an object is pushed onto a digester object stack, or popped off one.
         public  void setSubstitutor(Substitutor substitutor) 
          Sets the Substitutor to be used to convert attributes and body text.
         public  void setUseContextClassLoader(boolean use) 
          Determine whether to use the Context ClassLoader (the one found by calling Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader()) to resolve/load classes that are defined in various rules. If not using Context ClassLoader, then the class-loading defaults to using the calling-class' ClassLoader.
         public  void setValidating(boolean validating) 
          Set the validating parser flag. This must be called before parse() is called the first time.
         public  void setXIncludeAware(boolean xincludeAware) 
          Set the XInclude-aware flag for parsers we create. This additionally requires namespace-awareness.
         public  void setXMLSchema(Schema schema) 
          Set the XML Schema to be used when parsing.
         public  void skippedEntity(String name) throws SAXException 
          Process notification of a skipped entity.
         public  void startDocument() throws SAXException 
          Process notification of the beginning of the document being reached.
         public  void startElement(String namespaceURI,
            String localName,
            String qName,
            Attributes list) throws SAXException 
          Process notification of the start of an XML element being reached.
         public  void startPrefixMapping(String prefix,
            String namespaceURI) throws SAXException 
          Process notification that a namespace prefix is coming in to scope.
         public  void unparsedEntityDecl(String name,
            String publicId,
            String systemId,
            String notation) 
          Receive notification of an unparsed entity declaration event.
         public  void warning(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException 
          Forward notification of a parse warning to the application supplied error handler (if any).