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IDOM_DocumentFragment Class ReferenceDocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document object.
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#include <IDOM_DocumentFragment.hpp>
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Detailed Description
DocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal" Document object.
It is very common to want to be able to extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a Node for this purpose. While it is true that a Document object could fulfil this role, a Document object can potentially be a heavyweight object, depending on the underlying implementation. What is really needed for this is a very lightweight object. DocumentFragment is such an object.
Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children of another Node -- may take DocumentFragment objects as arguments; this results in all the child nodes of the DocumentFragment being moved to the child list of this node.
The children of a DocumentFragment node are zero or more nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the document. DocumentFragment nodes do not need to be well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top nodes). For example, a DocumentFragment might have only one child and that child node could be a Text node. Such a structure model represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML document.
When a DocumentFragment is inserted into a Document (or indeed any other Node that may take children) the children of the DocumentFragment and not the DocumentFragment itself are inserted into the Node . This makes the DocumentFragment very useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the DocumentFragment acts as the parent of these nodes so that the user can use the standard methods from the Node interface, such as insertBefore() and appendChild() .
Constructor & Destructor Documentation
IDOM_DocumentFragment::IDOM_DocumentFragment (
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) [protected]
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IDOM_DocumentFragment::IDOM_DocumentFragment (
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const IDOM_DocumentFragment & other ) [protected]
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IDOM_DocumentFragment::~IDOM_DocumentFragment (
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) [virtual]
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Member Function Documentation
IDOM_DocumentFragment & IDOM_DocumentFragment::operator= (
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const IDOM_DocumentFragment & other ) [protected]
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