uk.ac.starlink.votable

Class ParamElement

java.lang.Object

uk.ac.starlink.votable.dom.DelegatingNode

uk.ac.starlink.votable.dom.DelegatingElement

uk.ac.starlink.votable.VOElement

uk.ac.starlink.votable.FieldElement

uk.ac.starlink.votable.ParamElement

All Implemented Interfaces:

Element, Node

public class ParamElement
extends FieldElement

Object representing a PARAM element in a VOTable.

Author:

Mark Taylor (Starlink)

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
Object	getObject() Returns the object represented by the value of this Param.
String	getValue() Returns the value of the value attribute, or an empty string if it has none.

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.votable.FieldElement

getActualValues, getArraysize, getCoosys, getDatatype, getIndexInTable, getLegalValues, getNull, getTimesys, getUcd, getUnit, getUtype, getXtype, toString

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.votable.VOElement

getChildByName, getChildren, getChildrenByName, getDescription, getElementsByVOTagName, getElementSequence, getHandle, getID, getName, getParent, getReferencedElement, getSystemId, getVOTagName

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.votable.dom.DelegatingElement

getAttribute, getAttributeNode, getAttributeNodeNS, getAttributeNS, getElementsByTagName, getElementsByTagNameNS, getSchemaTypeInfo, getTagName, hasAttribute, hasAttributeNS, removeAttribute, removeAttributeNode, removeAttributeNS, setAttribute, setAttributeNode, setAttributeNodeNS, setAttributeNS, setIdAttribute, setIdAttributeNode, setIdAttributeNS

Methods inherited from class uk.ac.starlink.votable.dom.DelegatingNode

appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData

Method Detail

getValue

public String getValue()

Returns the value of the value attribute, or an empty string if it has none.

Returns:

the value string

getObject

public Object getObject()

Returns the object represented by the value of this Param. This is constructed by decoding the value attribute in the same way as for TABLEDATA content of a table for a FIELD of this kind.

Returns:

the value object