uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.xml.utilities
Class UIDUtility

java.lang.Object
  uk.ac.bbk.dcs.automed.xml.utilities.UIDUtility

public class UIDUtility
extends java.lang.Object

This class contains various methods related to the XML unique identifiers (UIDs) used in the AutoMed XML toolkit

Schema UIDs are of the form elementName$count_sid

Instance UIDs are of the form elementName$count_sid&instanceCount

Author:

Lucas Zamboulis

Field Summary

protected static java.util.logging.Logger	logger
static char	separator1
static char	separator2
static char	separator3

Constructor Summary

UIDUtility()

Method Summary

static Schema	changeSchemaUIDs(Schema s, java.lang.String newSchemaName)
static java.util.LinkedList	generatorsFromXPath(java.lang.String genVar, java.lang.String xpath, java.util.HashMap map, org.w3c.dom.Document schemaUIDDoc)
static java.lang.String	getAutoMedID(org.w3c.dom.Node n)
static org.w3c.dom.Element	getElementByCID(org.w3c.dom.Document doc, java.lang.String cid) Returns the node in the input doc that has an AutoMedID with the value of elementCID
static org.w3c.dom.Node	getElementByUID(org.w3c.dom.Document doc, java.lang.String elemUID) Returns the node in the input doc that has an AutoMedID with the value of elementUID
static java.lang.String	getElementName(java.lang.String uid)
static java.lang.String	getInstUID(java.lang.String elemCID, long sid, long instanceCount)
static boolean	isAttribute(java.lang.String uid)
static boolean	isCDataNestListUID(java.lang.String uid)
static boolean	isCDataUID(java.lang.String uid)
static boolean	isPCDataNestListUID(java.lang.String uid)
static boolean	isPCDataUID(java.lang.String uid)
static boolean	isTextNestListUID(java.lang.String uid)
static boolean	isTextUID(java.lang.String uid)
static org.w3c.dom.Document	stripUIDs(org.w3c.dom.Document inputDoc) This method takes as input an XML document in DOM format, duplicates it, then strips the uids from the duplicated DOM.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

logger

protected static java.util.logging.Logger logger

separator1

public static final char separator1

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Constant Field Values

separator2

public static final char separator2

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separator3

public static final char separator3

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Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

UIDUtility

public UIDUtility()

Method Detail

changeSchemaUIDs

public static Schema changeSchemaUIDs(Schema s,
                                      java.lang.String newSchemaName)
                               throws XMLException

Throws:

XMLException

stripUIDs

public static org.w3c.dom.Document stripUIDs(org.w3c.dom.Document inputDoc)

This method takes as input an XML document in DOM format, duplicates it, then strips the uids from the duplicated DOM.

Parameters:

inputDoc - the input document

Returns:

the inputDoc without uids

isAttribute

public static boolean isAttribute(java.lang.String uid)

isPCDataUID

public static boolean isPCDataUID(java.lang.String uid)

isCDataUID

public static boolean isCDataUID(java.lang.String uid)

isTextUID

public static boolean isTextUID(java.lang.String uid)

isPCDataNestListUID

public static boolean isPCDataNestListUID(java.lang.String uid)

isCDataNestListUID

public static boolean isCDataNestListUID(java.lang.String uid)

isTextNestListUID

public static boolean isTextNestListUID(java.lang.String uid)

getElementName

public static java.lang.String getElementName(java.lang.String uid)

getAutoMedID

public static java.lang.String getAutoMedID(org.w3c.dom.Node n)

getInstUID

public static java.lang.String getInstUID(java.lang.String elemCID,
                                          long sid,
                                          long instanceCount)

getElementByUID

public static org.w3c.dom.Node getElementByUID(org.w3c.dom.Document doc,
                                               java.lang.String elemUID)

Returns the node in the input doc that has an AutoMedID with the value of elementUID

getElementByCID

public static org.w3c.dom.Element getElementByCID(org.w3c.dom.Document doc,
                                                  java.lang.String cid)

Returns the node in the input doc that has an AutoMedID with the value of elementCID

generatorsFromXPath

public static java.util.LinkedList generatorsFromXPath(java.lang.String genVar,
                                                       java.lang.String xpath,
                                                       java.util.HashMap map,
                                                       org.w3c.dom.Document schemaUIDDoc)
                                                throws java.lang.Exception

Throws:

java.lang.Exception