Using Documents

Four Base Interfaces

• Document
  • A Document is an abstract interface that is the model representation of any text component (even text fields) in Swing.
  • The Document contains the data.
• Element
  • Documents are partitioned into elements which describe the structural pieces of the docuement.
  • Elements contain the structure.
• AttributeSet
  • Every element has an associated AttributeSet which defines things like font, text style, etc. that are applied to the element.
• Position
  • Positions provide the ability to track a location in the document as things are inserted and removed in front of it.