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## org.apache.commons.digester
Class NodeCreateRule

    java.lang.Object
      org.apache.commons.digester.Rule
          org.apache.commons.digester.NodeCreateRule

    public class NodeCreateRule

extends Rule

A rule implementation that creates a DOM `Node` containing the XML at the element that matched the rule. Two concrete types of nodes can be created by this rule:

- the default is to create an `Element` node. The created element will correspond to the element that matched the rule, containing all XML content underneath that element.
- alternatively, this rule can create nodes of type `DocumentFragment`, which will contain only the XML content under the element the rule was trigged on.

The created node will be normalized, meaning it will not contain text nodes that only contain white space characters.

The created `Node` will be pushed on Digester's object stack when done. To use it in the context of another DOM `Document`, it must be imported first, using the Document method `importNode()`.

Important Note: This is implemented by replacing the SAX `ContentHandler` in the parser used by Digester, and resetting it when the matched element is closed. As a side effect, rules that would match XML nodes under the element that matches a `NodeCreateRule` will never be triggered by Digester, which usually is the behavior one would expect.

Note that the current implementation does not set the namespace prefixes in the exported nodes. The (usually more important) namespace URIs are set, of course.

Since:
  Digester 1.4

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.apache.commons.digester.Rule
`digester, namespaceURI`

Constructor Summary
`NodeCreateRule()` Default constructor.
`NodeCreateRule(DocumentBuilder documentBuilder)` Constructor.
`NodeCreateRule(int nodeType)` Constructor.
`NodeCreateRule(int nodeType, DocumentBuilder documentBuilder)` Constructor.

Method Summary
`void` | `begin(String namespaceURI, String name, Attributes attributes)` When this method fires, the digester is told to forward all SAX ContentHandler events to the builder object, resulting in a DOM being built instead of normal digester rule-handling occurring.
`void` | `end()` Pop the Node off the top of the stack.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.commons.digester.Rule
`begin, body, body, end, finish, getDigester, getNamespaceURI, setDigester, setNamespaceURI`

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
`clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait`

Constructor Detail

### NodeCreateRule

    public NodeCreateRule()
                   throws ParserConfigurationException

  Default constructor. Creates an instance of this rule that will create a DOM `Element`.

  Throws:
    `ParserConfigurationException`

### NodeCreateRule

    public NodeCreateRule(DocumentBuilder documentBuilder)

  Constructor. Creates an instance of this rule that will create a DOM `Element`, but lets you specify the JAXP `DocumentBuilder` that should be used when constructing the node tree.

  Parameters:
    `documentBuilder` - the JAXP `DocumentBuilder` to use

### NodeCreateRule

    public NodeCreateRule(int nodeType)
                   throws ParserConfigurationException

  Constructor. Creates an instance of this rule that will create either a DOM `Element` or a DOM `DocumentFragment`, depending on the value of the `nodeType` parameter.

  Parameters:
    `nodeType` - the type of node to create, which can be either `Node.ELEMENT_NODE` or `Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE`
  Throws:
    `IllegalArgumentException` - if the node type is not supported
    `ParserConfigurationException`

### NodeCreateRule

    public NodeCreateRule(int nodeType,
                          DocumentBuilder documentBuilder)

  Constructor. Creates an instance of this rule that will create either a DOM `Element` or a DOM `DocumentFragment`, depending on the value of the `nodeType` parameter. This constructor lets you specify the JAXP `DocumentBuilder` that should be used when constructing the node tree.

  Parameters:
    `nodeType` - the type of node to create, which can be either `Node.ELEMENT_NODE` or `Node.DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE`
    `documentBuilder` - the JAXP `DocumentBuilder` to use
  Throws:
    `IllegalArgumentException` - if the node type is not supported

Method Detail

### begin

    public void begin(String namespaceURI,
                      String name,
                      Attributes attributes)
               throws Exception

  When this method fires, the digester is told to forward all SAX ContentHandler events to the builder object, resulting in a DOM being built instead of normal digester rule-handling occurring. When the end of the current xml element is encountered, the original content handler is restored (expected to be NULL, allowing normal Digester operations to continue).

  Overrides:
    `begin` in class `Rule`
  Parameters:
    `namespaceURI` - the namespace URI of the matching element, or an empty string if the parser is not namespace aware or the element has no namespace
    `name` - the local name if the parser is namespace aware, or just the element name otherwise
    `attributes` - The attribute list of this element
  Throws:
    `Exception` - indicates a JAXP configuration problem

### end

    public void end()
             throws Exception

  Pop the Node off the top of the stack.

  Overrides:
    `end` in class `Rule`
  Throws:
    `Exception`

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