iText 5

Meta

Meta Public class

Description

This is an Element that contains some meta information about the document.

Diagram

flowchart LR classDef interfaceStyle stroke-dasharray: 5 5; classDef abstractStyle stroke-width:4px subgraph iTextSharp.text iTextSharp.text.Meta[[Meta]] iTextSharp.text.IElement[[IElement]] class iTextSharp.text.IElement interfaceStyle; end iTextSharp.text.IElement --> iTextSharp.text.Meta

Members

Properties

Public properties

Type

Name

Methods

IList<

Chunk

>

Chunks


Gets all the chunks in this element.

get

string

Content


Returns the content of the meta information.

get

string

Name


Returns the name of the meta information.

get

int

Type


Gets the type of the text element.

get

Methods

Public methods

Returns

Name

StringBuilder

Append

(string str)
appends some text to this Meta.

bool

IsContent

()

bool

IsNestable

()

bool

Process

(

IElementListener

listener)
Processes the element by adding it (or the different parts) to a
IElementListener.

string

ToString

()

Public Static methods

Returns

Name

int

GetType

(string tag)
Returns the name of the meta information.

Details

Summary

This is an Element that contains some meta information about the document.

Remarks

An object of type Meta can not be constructed by the user. Userdefined meta information should be placed in a Header-object. Meta is reserved for: Subject, Keywords, Author, Title, Producer and Creationdate information.

Inheritance

Constructors

Meta [1/2]

Source code

public Meta(int type, string content)

Arguments

Type

Name

Description

int

type

the type of meta-information

string

content

the content

Summary

Constructs a Meta.

Meta [2/2]

Source code

public Meta(string tag, string content)

Arguments

Type

Name

Description

string

tag

the tagname of the meta-information

string

content

the content

Summary

Constructs a Meta.

Methods

Process

Source code

public virtual bool Process(IElementListener listener)

Arguments

Type

Name

Description

IElementListener

listener

the IElementListener

Summary

Processes the element by adding it (or the different parts) to a IElementListener.

Returns

true if the element was processed successfully

IsContent

Source code

public virtual bool IsContent()

IsNestable

Source code

public virtual bool IsNestable()

Append

Source code

public virtual StringBuilder Append(string str)

Arguments

Type

Name

Description

string

str

a string

Summary

appends some text to this Meta.

Returns

a StringBuilder

GetType

Source code

public static int GetType(string tag)

Arguments

Type

Name

Description

string

tag

name to match

Summary

Returns the name of the meta information.

Returns

a string

ToString

Source code

public override string ToString()

Properties

Type

public virtual int Type { get; }

Summary

Gets the type of the text element.

Value

a type

Chunks

public virtual IList<Chunk> Chunks { get; }

Summary

Gets all the chunks in this element.

Value

an ArrayList

Content

public virtual string Content { get; }

Summary

Returns the content of the meta information.

Value

a string

Name

public virtual string Name { get; }

Summary

Returns the name of the meta information.

Value

a string

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