<html> <head> <title>Interface XStringEscape</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../idl.css"> </head> <body> <div id="adc-idlref"> <a name="_top_"> </a><table class="navimain" border="0" cellpadding="3"> <tr> <td class="navimain"><a href="../module-ix.html" class="navimain">Overview</a></td> <td class="navimain"><a href="module-ix.html" class="navimain">Module</a></td> <td class="navimain"><a href="XStringEscape-xref.html" class="navimain">Use</a></td> <td class="navimainnone">Devguide</td> <td class="navimain"><a href="../../../../index-files/index-1.html" class="navimain">Index</a></td> </tr> </table> <table class="navisub" border="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td class="navisub"><a href="#MethodsSummary" class="navisub">Methods' Summary</a></td> <td class="navisub"><a href="#MethodsDetails" class="navisub">Methods' Details</a></td> <td class="navisub">Attributes' Summary</td> <td class="navisub">Attributes' Details</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="3" class="title-table" style="margin-bottom:6pt;"> <tr> <td><p class="namechain"><a href="../../../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">::</a> <a href="../../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">com</a> :: <a href="../../module-ix.html" class="namechain">sun</a> :: <a href="../module-ix.html" class="namechain">star</a> :: <a href="module-ix.html" class="namechain">util</a> :: </p> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="title">interface XStringEscape</td> </tr> <tr> <td/></tr> <tr> <td><dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>This interface is used to encode an arbitrary String into a escaped form. </dd> <dd><p>The escaped form is chosen to be suitable for use with other interfaces of the object or service providing this interface.</p> <p>Any characters or character sequences that are not compatible with any naming rules or restrictions must be replaced by an escaped form, that complies to these rules. <p>The transformation should preserve all traits of the string that are generally respected by the service. For example, the case of a string may be lost after encoding and then decoding, if the service generally is case insensitive. <p>Other than that the encoding is one-to-one and can be reversed. The encoding should try to preserve as much as possible of the original string, to keep human-readable input human-friendly where possible. Strings that already conform to the naming conventions should be left unchanged or minimally modified.</p> </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> <hr> <a name="MethodsSummary"/><table border="1" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="subtitle"> <tr> <td class="subtitle" colspan="2">Methods' Summary</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imsum_left"><a href="#escapeString">escapeString</a></td> <td class="imsum_right">encodes an arbitrary string into an escaped form compatible with some naming rules. </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imsum_left"><a href="#unescapeString">unescapeString</a></td> <td class="imsum_right">decodes an escaped string into the original form. </td> </tr> </table> <a name="MethodsDetails"/><table border="1" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="subtitle"> <tr> <td class="subtitle">Methods' Details</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imdetail"><a name="escapeString" class="membertitle">escapeString</a><table border="0" width="96%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="table-in-method" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"> <tr> <td><table class="table-in-method" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="3">string</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>escapeString</b>(</td> <td valign="top">[in] string</td> <td valign="bottom"> aString )</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="right">raises( </td> <td valign="top" colspan="2">::com::sun::star::<a href="../lang/module-ix.html">lang</a>::<a href="../lang/IllegalArgumentException.html">IllegalArgumentException</a> );</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>encodes an arbitrary string into an escaped form compatible with some naming rules. </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td class="imdetail"><a name="unescapeString" class="membertitle">unescapeString</a><table border="0" width="96%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" class="table-in-method" bgcolor="#ffffff" align="center"> <tr> <td><table class="table-in-method" border="0"> <tr> <td valign="top" colspan="3">string</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top"><b>unescapeString</b>(</td> <td valign="top">[in] string</td> <td valign="bottom"> aEscapedString )</td> </tr> <tr> <td valign="top" align="right">raises( </td> <td valign="top" colspan="2">::com::sun::star::<a href="../lang/module-ix.html">lang</a>::<a href="../lang/IllegalArgumentException.html">IllegalArgumentException</a> );</td> </tr> </table> <hr> <dl> <dt><b>Description</b></dt> <dd>decodes an escaped string into the original form. </dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <a href="#_top_">Top of Page</a><hr size="3"><p class="copyright" align="center">Copyright © 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.</p> </div> <!-- id="adc-idlref" --> </body> </html>