Class: AbstractConverter (private in XMLStandardDecoder

• Inheritance
• Description
• Related information
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • converting
  • testing

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--XMLStandardDecoder::AbstractConverter
      |
      +--XMLStandardDecoder::Base64Converter
      |
      +--XMLStandardDecoder::CharacterConverter
      |
      +--XMLStandardDecoder::ContainedObject
      |
      +--XMLStandardDecoder::NumberConverter
      |
      +--XMLStandardDecoder::StringConverter
      |
      +--XMLStandardDecoder::SymbolConverter

Package:

stx:goodies/xml/stx

Category:

XML-Presentation

Owner:

XMLStandardDecoder

Author:

Stefan Vogel (stefan@zwerg)

Description:

Converters are used to convert the xml text representation to objects.
The attributes needed to create the object are known, when the start tag is
processed, the xml text is known, when the end tag is read.



[instance variables:]
    id                                      The unique id of the object in the
                                            xml document (used to detect references)
    storeSpecification  (Integer|Symbol)    The index or name of the object in the
                                            parent Object.
    elementClass        (Class|nil)         The class of the element. Nil if default
                                            class specified by converter.

[class variables:]

Related information:

Instance protocol:

 elementClass

 elementClass: something

 id

return the value of the instance variable 'id' (automatically generated)

 id: idArg storeSpecification: storeSpecificationArg

set instance variables (automatically generated)

 storeSpecification

return the value of the instance variable 'storeSpecification' (automatically generated)

 convertText: aString

convert the text to the internal smalltalk representation

** This method raises an error - it must be redefined in concrete classes **

 isContainedObject

answer true, if i already know the final object