Package com.sun.xml.dtdparser

Class XmlNames

java.lang.Object

com.sun.xml.dtdparser.XmlNames

public class XmlNames
extends java.lang.Object

This class contains static methods used to determine whether identifiers may appear in certain roles in XML documents. Such methods are used both to parse and to create such documents.

Version:

1.1, 00/08/05

Author:

David Brownell

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static boolean	isName(java.lang.String value)	Returns true if the value is a legal XML name.
static boolean	isNCNmtoken(java.lang.String token)	This method returns true if the identifier is a "name token" as defined by the XML Namespaces proposed recommendation.
static boolean	isNmtoken(java.lang.String token)	This method returns true if the identifier is a "name token" as defined in the XML specification.
static boolean	isQualifiedName(java.lang.String value)	Returns true if the value is a legal "qualified" XML name, as defined in the XML Namespaces proposed recommendation.
static boolean	isUnqualifiedName(java.lang.String value)	Returns true if the value is a legal "unqualified" XML name, as defined in the XML Namespaces proposed recommendation.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Method Detail

isName

public static boolean isName(java.lang.String value)

Returns true if the value is a legal XML name.

Parameters:

value - the string being tested

isUnqualifiedName

public static boolean isUnqualifiedName(java.lang.String value)

Returns true if the value is a legal "unqualified" XML name, as defined in the XML Namespaces proposed recommendation. These are normal XML names, except that they may not contain a "colon" character.

Parameters:

value - the string being tested

isQualifiedName

public static boolean isQualifiedName(java.lang.String value)

Returns true if the value is a legal "qualified" XML name, as defined in the XML Namespaces proposed recommendation. Qualified names are composed of an optional prefix (an unqualified name), followed by a colon, and a required "local part" (an unqualified name). Prefixes are declared, and correspond to particular URIs which scope the "local part" of the name. (This method cannot check whether the prefix of a name has been declared.)

Parameters:

value - the string being tested

isNmtoken

public static boolean isNmtoken(java.lang.String token)

This method returns true if the identifier is a "name token" as defined in the XML specification. Like names, these may only contain "name characters"; however, they do not need to have letters as their initial characters. Attribute values defined to be of type NMTOKEN(S) must satisfy this predicate.

Parameters:

token - the string being tested

isNCNmtoken

public static boolean isNCNmtoken(java.lang.String token)

This method returns true if the identifier is a "name token" as defined by the XML Namespaces proposed recommendation. These are like XML "name tokens" but they may not contain the "colon" character.

Parameters:

token - the string being tested

See Also:

isNmtoken(java.lang.String)