/*
 *    GeoTools - The Open Source Java GIS Toolkit
 *    http://geotools.org
 * 
 *    (C) 2004-2008, Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo)
 *    
 *    This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
 *    modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
 *    License as published by the Free Software Foundation;
 *    version 2.1 of the License.
 *
 *    This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
 *    Lesser General Public License for more details.
 */
package org.geotools.xml.handlers.xsi;

import org.geotools.xml.XSIElementHandler;
import org.xml.sax.Attributes;


/**
 * <p>
 * Used to represent elements which are not important to our parse, basically
 * place holders.
 * </p>
 *
 * @author dzwiers, Refractions Research, Inc. http://www.refractions.net
 * @author $Author:$ (last modification)
 *
 * @source $URL$
 * @version $Id$
 */
public class IgnoreHandler extends XSIElementHandler {
    /** "" */
    public final static String LOCALNAME = "";

    /**
     * @see org.geotools.xml.XSIElementHandler#characters(java.lang.String)
     */
    public void characters(String text){
        // do nothing
    }

    /**
     * @see java.lang.Object#hashCode()
     */
    public int hashCode() {
        return 0;
    }

    /**
     * @see org.geotools.xml.XSIElementHandler#getHandler(java.lang.String,
     *      java.lang.String)
     */
    public XSIElementHandler getHandler(String namespaceURI, String localName){
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * @see org.geotools.xml.XSIElementHandler#getLocalName()
     */
    public String getLocalName() {
        return LOCALNAME;
    }

    /**
     * @see org.geotools.xml.XSIElementHandler#getHandlerType()
     */
    public int getHandlerType() {
        return DEFAULT;
    }

    /**
     * @see org.geotools.xml.XSIElementHandler#endElement(java.lang.String,
     *      java.lang.String)
     */
    public void endElement(String namespaceURI, String localName){
        // do nothing
    }

    /**
     * @see org.geotools.xml.XSIElementHandler#startElement(java.lang.String,
     *      java.lang.String, org.xml.sax.Attributes)
     */
    public void startElement(String namespaceURI, String localName,
        Attributes attr){
        // do nothing
    }
}