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Interface Consumer

public interface Consumer

A Consumer is something that will accept data (output), and do something with it. A consumer is like a SAX DocumentHandler or a PrintWriter, but more abstract. If a Sequence class impleemnts Consumer, then data "written" to the sequence will be inserted in the sequence.

Note: This interface is not quite final. For example it is probable we will add methods for comments, processing instructions, etc.

Method Summary
void	endAttribute() End of an attribute or end of an actual parameter.
void	endDocument()
void	endElement()
boolean	ignoring() True if consumer is ignoring rest of element.
void	startAttribute(Object attrType) Write a attribute for the current element.
void	startDocument()
void	startElement(Object type)
void	write(int ch)
void	write(String string)
void	write(CharSequence string, int start, int length)
void	write(char[] buf, int start, int length)
void	writeBoolean(boolean v)
void	writeDouble(double v)
void	writeFloat(float v)
void	writeInt(int v)
void	writeLong(long v)
void	writeObject(Object v)

Method Detail

endAttribute

public void endAttribute()

End of an attribute or end of an actual parameter. The former use matches a startAttribute; the latter may not, and can be used to separate parameters in a parameter list. This double duty suggsts the method should at least be re-named.