BDB::XML::Document

A Document is the unit of storage within a Container.

A Document contains a stream of bytes that may be of type XML or BYTES. The Container only indexes the content of Documents that contain XML. The BYTES type is supported to allow the storage of arbitrary content along with XML content.

Document supports annotation attributes.

Class Methods

allocate

Allocate a new object

Methods

self[attr]

Return the value of an attribute

self[attr] = val

Set the value of an attribute

content

Return the content of the document

content=(val)

Set the content of the document

encoding

Return the encoding

get(uri = "", attr)

Return the value of an attribute. uri specify the namespace where reside the attribute.

id

Return the ID

initialize(type = BDB::XML::XML)

initialize(content = "")

Initialize the document with the type (or the content) specified

name

Return the name of the document

name=(val)

Set the name of the document

prefix

Return the default prefix for the namespace

prefix=(val)

Set the default prefix used by set

set(uri = "", prefix = "", attr, value)

Set an attribute in the namespace uri. prefix is the prefix for the namespace

to_s

to_str

Return the document as a String object

uri

Return the default namespace

uri=(val)

Set the default namespace used by set and get