Scala 2
API Specification

This document is the API specification for Scala 2.

Class Summary
| `class` Atom [+A] The class `Atom` provides an XML node for text (PCDATA). It is used in both non-bound and bound XML representations.
`case` | `class` Comment The class `Comment` implements an XML node for comments.
| `class` Document A document information item (according to InfoSet spec). The comments are copied from the Infoset spec, only augmented with some information on the Scala types for definitions that might have no value. also plays the role of an `XMLEvent` for pull parsing
`case` | `class` Elem The case class `Elem` extends the `Node` class, providing an immutable data object representing an XML element.
`case` | `class` EntityRef The class `EntityRef` implements an XML node for entity references.
`case` | `class` Group A hack to group XML nodes in one node for output.
`case` | `class` MalformedAttributeException
`abstract` | `class` MetaData Attribute information item, and linked list of attribute information items. These are triples consisting of `prefix,key,value`. To obtain the namespace, `getNamespace` must be called with the parent. If next is null, this is the last attribute in the MetaData list. Either an UnprefixedAttribute or a PrefixedAttribute
| `class` NamespaceBinding The class `NamespaceBinding` represents namespace bindings and scopes. The binding for the default namespace is treated as a null prefix. the absent namespace is represented with the null uri. Neither prefix nor uri may be empty, which is not checked.
`abstract` | `class` Node An abstract class representing XML with nodes of a labelled tree. This class contains an implementation of a subset of XPath for navigation.
| `class` NodeBuffer This class acts as a Buffer for nodes. If it is used as a sequence of nodes `Seq[Node]`, it must be ensured that no updates occur after that point, because `scala.xml.Node` is assumed to be immutable. Despite this being a sequence, don't use it as key in a hashtable. Calling the hashcode function will result in a runtime error.
`abstract` | `class` NodeSeq This class implements a wrapper around `Seq[Node]` that adds XPath and comprehension methods.
`abstract` | `class` NodeTraverser This class ...
| `class` PrefixedAttribute prefixed attributes always have a non-null namespace.
| `class` PrettyPrinter Class for pretty printing. After instantiating, you can use the toPrettyXML methods to convert XML to a formatted string. The class can be reused to pretty print any number of XML nodes.
`case` | `class` ProcInstr an XML node for processing instructions (PI)
`abstract` | `class` SpecialNode <code>SpecialNode</code> is a special XML node which represents either text (PCDATA), a comment, a PI, or an entity ref. SpecialNodes also play the role of XMLEvents for pull-parsing.
`case` | `class` Text The class `Text` implements an XML node for text (PCDATA). It is used in both non-bound and bound XML representations.
| `class` TextBuffer The class `TextBuffer` is for creating text nodes without surplus whitespace. All occurrences of one or more whitespace in strings appended with the `append` method will be replaced by a single space character, and leading and trailing space will be removed completely.
`abstract` | `class` TypeSymbol
`case` | `class` Unparsed an XML node for unparsed content. It will be output verbatim, all bets are off regarding wellformedness etc.
| `class` UnprefixedAttribute unprefixed attributes have the null namespace, and no prefix field

Object Summary
| `object` Node This object provides methods ...
| `object` NodeSeq This object ...
`case` | `object` Null
| `object` Parsing The object `Parsing` ...
| `object` TextBuffer
`case` | `object` TopScope top level namespace scope. only contains the predefined binding for the "xml" prefix which is bound to "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace"
| `object` Utility The `Utility` object provides utility functions for processing instances of bound and not bound XML classes, as well as escaping text nodes.
| `object` XML The object `XML` provides constants, and functions to load and save XML elements. Use this when data binding is not desired, i.e. when XML is handled using `Symbol` nodes.