XMLEvent Methods

• Mostly the XMLEvent interface provides alternatives to casting and instanceof:

  package javax.xml.stream.events;
  
  public interface XMLEvent extends XMLStreamConstants {
   
    public int      getEventType();
  
    public Location getLocation();
  
    public boolean isStartElement();
    public boolean isAttribute();
    public boolean isNamespace();
    public boolean isEndElement();
    public boolean isEntityReference();
    public boolean isProcessingInstruction();
    public boolean isCharacters();
    public boolean isStartDocument();
    public boolean isEndDocument();
    public boolean isStartEntity();
    public boolean isEndEntity();
  
    public StartElement asStartElement();
    public EndElement   asEndElement();
    public Characters   asCharacters();
  
    public QName getSchemaType();  // optional
  
    public void writeAsEncodedUnicode(Writer writer)  throws XMLStreamException;
  
  }
  
  

• Normally you need to downcast to do much useful