RecordReader Base Class (Extends RecordHandler)

Overview

This class provides basic support for reading records from non-XML-formatted files and converting them to XML. Many of the methods are used in the derived classes, though some are overridden. We will add methods as we build the various utilities.

Attributes:

  • Input Stream

  • DOM Document Output Document

Methods:

  • Constructor

  • getRecordType (virtual)

  • parseRecord (virtual)

  • readRecord (virtual)

  • readRecordVariableLength

  • setInputStream

  • setOutputDocument

  • toXMLType

  • writeRecord

Methods

Constructor

The RecordReader has two very basic constructor functions. The first takes a single argument of file description document name and doesn't do anything but call the base RecordHandler constructor. The second version ...

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