edu.washington.biostr.sig.brainj3d.data.decoder
Class BasicXMLDecoder

java.lang.Object
  edu.washington.biostr.sig.brainj3d.data.decoder.BasicXMLDecoder

All Implemented Interfaces:

Decoder

Direct Known Subclasses:

BrainInfoAtlasDecoder, LibraryDecoder, TreeTemplateDecoder, XMapDecoder

public abstract class BasicXMLDecoder
extends Object
implements Decoder

Title:

Description:

Copyright: Copyright (c) 2003

Company:

This is a generic class for reading xml files using the DOM, which is most appropriate for this kind of Decoder.

Version:

1.0

Author:

not attributable

Constructor Summary

BasicXMLDecoder()

Method Summary

Data	decode(String directory, URL[] urls, FileGroup source)
static Document	decode(URL url) This is a helper function to decode a Document from a url using the basic factory and a nonvalidating parser.
int	getNumberOfFiles()
protected String	getSubText(Node element) Often you may want to get the trimmed text from a node that should only have one subnode, which is a text node.
abstract Data	interpret(Document document, String directory, FileGroup source) This is where you should interpret the document.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface edu.washington.biostr.sig.brainj3d.data.Decoder

getResultType

Constructor Detail

BasicXMLDecoder

public BasicXMLDecoder()

Method Detail

decode

public Data decode(String directory,
                   URL[] urls,
                   FileGroup source)
            throws BadDataFile,
                   FileNotFoundException,
                   IOException

Specified by:

decode in interface Decoder

Throws:

BadDataFile

FileNotFoundException

IOException

interpret

public abstract Data interpret(Document document,
                               String directory,
                               FileGroup source)

This is where you should interpret the document.

Returns:

getNumberOfFiles

public int getNumberOfFiles()

Specified by:

getNumberOfFiles in interface Decoder

decode

public static Document decode(URL url)
                       throws IOException

This is a helper function to decode a Document from a url using the basic factory and a nonvalidating parser.

Parameters:

url -

Returns:

Throws:

IOException

getSubText

protected String getSubText(Node element)

Often you may want to get the trimmed text from a node that should only have one subnode, which is a text node. This is a convenience method for that.

Parameters:

element -

Returns: