Interface to describe a structural piece of a document. It
is intended to capture the spirit of an SGML element.
Fetches the collection of attributes this element contains.
Fetches the document associated with this element.
Fetches the child element at the given index.
Gets the number of child elements contained by this element.
If this element is a leaf, a count of zero is returned.
Gets the child element index closest to the given offset.
The offset is specified relative to the beginning of the
document. Returns -1 if the
Element is a leaf, otherwise returns
the index of the Element that best represents
the given location. Returns 0 if the location
is less than the start offset. Returns
getElementCount() - 1 if the location is
greater than or equal to the end offset.
Fetches the offset from the beginning of the document
that this element ends at. If this element has
children, this will be the end offset of the last child.
As a document position, there is an implied backward bias.
All the default Document implementations
descend from AbstractDocument.
AbstractDocument models an implied break at the end of
the document. As a result of this, it is possible for this to
return a value greater than the length of the document.
Fetches the name of the element. If the element is used to
represent some type of structure, this would be the type
name.
Fetches the parent element. If the element is a root level
element returns null.
Fetches the offset from the beginning of the document
that this element begins at. If this element has
children, this will be the offset of the first child.
As a document position, there is an implied forward bias.
Is this element a leaf element? An element that
may have children, even if it currently
has no children, would return false.