Re: [SrcML] SrcML DOM: Unit

[Frank R. <fra...@in...>]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 10:59:53AM +0200, Leif Bladt wrote:
> Can anybody explain me this constant variables (found in 
> de.srcml.dom.Unit.java)? I thought I could use them to get the 
> corresponding filename of a unit, at least the comments promise me 
> this.

Sure.. here we go:

> /** The programming language of this SrcML Unit */
> public final static String ATTR_LANGUAGE = "language";

This is one of the language strings defined in de.srcml.language.Language.
(right now chances are pretty high it is de.srcml.language.Language.LANG_JAVA)

> /** The filename of this SrcML unit */
> public final static String ATTR_FILENAME = "filename";

This is the filename which was given to the parser when the SrcML file was
created (see de.srcml.parser.Parser.setFilename) and represents the name
of the original source code file.

> /** The author of this SrcML unit */
> public final static String ATTR_AUTHOR = "author";

This attribute isn't very well supported yet. Currently the java parser
plugin sets the currently logged in username as author.


Note that all these constants only define the name of the attribute in the
<unit> tag. So for ATTR_FILENAME this means we get: <unit filename="...">
and you get the actual filename (the '...') using something like this:
unit_instance.getAttribute(Unit.ATTR_FILENAME)

-- 
Raiser, Frank
Student @ University of Ulm (www.uni-ulm.de)

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