org.apache.tools.ant
Class Parser

java.lang.Object
  |
  +--org.apache.tools.ant.Parser

Direct Known Subclasses:

ApacheParser, SunParser

public abstract class Parser

extends java.lang.Object

Dummy parser abstraction class for ANT to be used until the Java API for XML Parsing are released.

Author:

pier@apache.org

Constructor Summary

Parser()

Method Summary

static Parser	getParser(Project project) Create a working instance of a parser
abstract org.w3c.dom.Document	parse(java.io.File f) Parse the specified file and return a DOM Document.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

Parser

public Parser()

Method Detail

getParser

public static Parser getParser(Project project)
                        throws BuildException

Create a working instance of a parser

parse

public abstract org.w3c.dom.Document parse(java.io.File f)
                                    throws org.xml.sax.SAXException,
                                           java.io.IOException

Parse the specified file and return a DOM Document.