com.lowagie.text
Class Meta

java.lang.Object
  com.lowagie.text.Meta

All Implemented Interfaces:

Element

Direct Known Subclasses:

Header

public class Meta
extends Object
implements Element

This is an Element that contains some meta information about the document.

An object of type Meta can not be constructed by the user. User defined meta information should be placed in a Header-object. Meta is reserved for: Subject, Keywords, Author, Title, Producer and Creationdate information.

See Also:

Element, Header

Field Summary

private StringBuffer	content This is the content of the Meta-information.
private int	type This is the type of Meta-information this object contains.

Fields inherited from interface com.lowagie.text.Element

ALIGN_BASELINE, ALIGN_BOTTOM, ALIGN_CENTER, ALIGN_JUSTIFIED, ALIGN_JUSTIFIED_ALL, ALIGN_LEFT, ALIGN_MIDDLE, ALIGN_RIGHT, ALIGN_TOP, ALIGN_UNDEFINED, ANCHOR, ANNOTATION, AUTHOR, CCITT_BLACKIS1, CCITT_ENCODEDBYTEALIGN, CCITT_ENDOFBLOCK, CCITT_ENDOFLINE, CCITTG3_1D, CCITTG3_2D, CCITTG4, CELL, CHAPTER, CHUNK, CREATIONDATE, CREATOR, HEADER, IMGRAW, IMGTEMPLATE, JBIG2, JPEG, JPEG2000, KEYWORDS, LIST, LISTITEM, MARKED, MULTI_COLUMN_TEXT, PARAGRAPH, PHRASE, PRODUCER, PTABLE, RECTANGLE, ROW, SECTION, SUBJECT, TABLE, TITLE, YMARK

Constructor Summary

Meta(int type, String content)
Constructs a Meta.

Meta(String tag, String content)
Constructs a Meta.

Method Summary

StringBuffer	append(String string) appends some text to this Meta.
ArrayList	getChunks() Gets all the chunks in this element.
String	getContent() Returns the content of the meta information.
String	getName() Returns the name of the meta information.
static int	getType(String tag) Returns the name of the meta information.
boolean	isContent() Checks if this element is a content object.
boolean	isNestable() Checks if this element is nestable.
boolean	process(ElementListener listener) Processes the element by adding it (or the different parts) to a ElementListener.
int	type() Gets the type of the text element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Methods inherited from interface com.lowagie.text.Element

toString

Field Detail

type

private int type

This is the type of Meta-information this object contains.

content

private StringBuffer content

This is the content of the Meta-information.

Constructor Detail

Meta

Meta(int type,
     String content)

Constructs a Meta.

Parameters:

type - the type of meta-information

content - the content

Meta

public Meta(String tag,
            String content)

Constructs a Meta.

Parameters:

tag - the tagname of the meta-information

content - the content

Method Detail

process

public boolean process(ElementListener listener)

Processes the element by adding it (or the different parts) to a ElementListener.

Specified by:

process in interface Element

Parameters:

listener - the ElementListener

Returns:

true if the element was processed successfully

type

public int type()

Gets the type of the text element.

Specified by:

type in interface Element

Returns:

a type

getChunks

public ArrayList getChunks()

Gets all the chunks in this element.

Specified by:

getChunks in interface Element

Returns:

an ArrayList

isContent

public boolean isContent()

Description copied from interface: Element

Checks if this element is a content object. If not, it's a metadata object.

Specified by:

isContent in interface Element

Returns:

true if this is a 'content' element; false if this is a 'metadata' element

Since:

iText 2.0.8

See Also:

Element.isContent()

isNestable

public boolean isNestable()

Description copied from interface: Element

Checks if this element is nestable.

Specified by:

isNestable in interface Element

Returns:

true if this element can be nested inside other elements.

Since:

iText 2.0.8

See Also:

Element.isNestable()

append

public StringBuffer append(String string)

appends some text to this Meta.

Parameters:

string - a String

Returns:

a StringBuffer

getContent

public String getContent()

Returns the content of the meta information.

Returns:

a String

getName

public String getName()

Returns the name of the meta information.

Returns:

a String

getType

public static int getType(String tag)

Returns the name of the meta information.

Parameters:

tag - iText tag for meta information

Returns:

the Element value corresponding with the given tag