KDE 4.9 PyKDE API Reference

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# NodeFilter Class Reference

`from PyKDE4.khtml import *`

Namespace: DOM

## Detailed Description

Filters are objects that know how to "filter out" nodes. If an Iterator or TreeWalker is given a filter, before it returns the next node, it applies the filter. If the filter says to accept the node, the Iterator returns it; otherwise, the Iterator looks for the next node and pretends that the node that was rejected was not there.

The DOM does not provide any filters. Filter is just an interface that users can implement to provide their own filters.

Filters do not need to know how to iterate, nor do they need to know anything about the data structure that is being iterated. This makes it very easy to write filters, since the only thing they have to know how to do is evaluate a single node. One filter may be used with a number of different kinds of Iterators, encouraging code reuse.

To create your own custom NodeFilter, define a subclass of CustomNodeFilter which overrides the acceptNode() method and assign an instance of it to the NodeFilter. For more details see the CustomNodeFilter class

## Enumerations

AcceptCode | { FILTER_ACCEPT, FILTER_REJECT, FILTER_SKIP }
ShowCode | { SHOW_ALL, SHOW_ELEMENT, SHOW_ATTRIBUTE, SHOW_TEXT, SHOW_CDATA_SECTION, SHOW_ENTITY_REFERENCE, SHOW_ENTITY, SHOW_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SHOW_COMMENT, SHOW_DOCUMENT, SHOW_DOCUMENT_TYPE, SHOW_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT, SHOW_NOTATION }

## Methods

| __init__ (self)
| __init__ (self, DOM.NodeFilter other)
int | acceptNode (self, DOM.Node n)
DOM.CustomNodeFilter | customNodeFilter (self)
bool | isNull (self)
| setCustomNodeFilter (self, DOM.CustomNodeFilter custom)

## Static Methods

DOM.NodeFilter | createCustom (DOM.CustomNodeFilter custom)

## Method Documentation

__init__ | ( |  | self ) |

__init__ | ( | self, |
|  | DOM.NodeFilter | other
| ) |  |  |

int acceptNode | ( | self, |
|  | DOM.Node | n
| ) |  |  |

Test whether a specified node is visible in the logical view of a TreeWalker or NodeIterator. This function will be called by the implementation of TreeWalker and NodeIterator; it is not intended to be called directly from user code.

Parameters:

  | n | The node to check to see if it passes the filter or not.

Returns:
  a constant to determine whether the node is accepted, rejected, or skipped, as defined <a href="#Traversal-NodeFilter-acceptNode-constants"> above .

DOM.CustomNodeFilter customNodeFilter | ( |  | self ) |

bool isNull | ( |  | self ) |

setCustomNodeFilter | ( | self, |
|  | DOM.CustomNodeFilter | custom
| ) |  |  |

## Static Method Documentation

DOM.NodeFilter createCustom | ( | DOM.CustomNodeFilter | custom
| ) |  |  |

## Enumeration Documentation

AcceptCode

The following constants are returned by the acceptNode() method:

Enumerator:

  FILTER_ACCEPT = 1 |
  FILTER_REJECT = 2 |
  FILTER_SKIP = 3 |

ShowCode

These are the available values for the whatToShow parameter. They are the same as the set of possible types for Node, and their values are derived by using a bit position corresponding to the value of NodeType for the equivalent node type.

Enumerator:

  SHOW_ALL = 0xFFFFFFFF |
  SHOW_ELEMENT = 0x00000001 |
  SHOW_ATTRIBUTE = 0x00000002 |
  SHOW_TEXT = 0x00000004 |
  SHOW_CDATA_SECTION = 0x00000008 |
  SHOW_ENTITY_REFERENCE = 0x00000010 |
  SHOW_ENTITY = 0x00000020 |
  SHOW_PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION = 0x00000040 |
  SHOW_COMMENT = 0x00000080 |
  SHOW_DOCUMENT = 0x00000100 |
  SHOW_DOCUMENT_TYPE = 0x00000200 |
  SHOW_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT = 0x00000400 |
  SHOW_NOTATION = 0x00000800 |