Class: REXML::Child

^Class REXML::Child

In:	/home/ser/Work/rexml/rexml/child.rb
Parent:	Object

A Child object is something contained by a parent, and this class contains methods to support that. Most user code will not use this class directly.

Methods

bytes document new next_sibling= once parent= previous_sibling= remove replace_with

Attributes

parent

[R]

Included modules

Node

Public Class methods

new( parent = nil )

Constructor. Any inheritors of this class should call super to make sure this method is called. @param parent if supplied, the parent of this child will be set to the supplied value, and self will be added to the parent

once(*ids)

Public Instance methods

replace_with( child )

Replaces this object with another object. Basically, calls Parent.replace_child @return self

remove()

Removes this child from the parent. @return self

parent=( other )

next_sibling=( other )

previous_sibling=(other)

document()

@return the document this child belongs to, or nil if this child belongs to no document

bytes()

This doesn't yet handle encodings