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* Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
* Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
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* PURPOSE.
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*/
package org.w3c.dom;
/**
* The <code>Document</code> interface represents the entire HTML or XML
* document. Conceptually, it is the root of the document tree, and provides
* the primary access to the document's data.
* <p>Since elements, text nodes, comments, processing instructions, etc.
* cannot exist outside the context of a <code>Document</code>, the
* <code>Document</code> interface also contains the factory methods needed
* to create these objects. The <code>Node</code> objects created have a
* <code>ownerDocument</code> attribute which associates them with the
* <code>Document</code> within whose context they were created.
* <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification</a>.
*/
public interface Document extends Node {
/**
* The Document Type Declaration (see <code>DocumentType</code>)
* associated with this document. For HTML documents as well as XML
* documents without a document type declaration this returns
* <code>null</code>. The DOM Level 2 does not support editing the
* Document Type Declaration. <code>docType</code> cannot be altered in
* any way, including through the use of methods inherited from the
* <code>Node</code> interface, such as <code>insertNode</code> or
* <code>removeNode</code>.
*/
public DocumentType getDoctype();
/**
* The <code>DOMImplementation</code> object that handles this document. A
* DOM application may use objects from multiple implementations.
*/
public DOMImplementation getImplementation();
/**
* This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child
* node that is the root element of the document. For HTML documents,
* this is the element with the tagName "HTML".
*/
public Element getDocumentElement();
/**
* Creates an element of the type specified. Note that the instance
* returned implements the <code>Element</code> interface, so attributes
* can be specified directly on the returned object.
* <br>In addition, if there are known attributes with default values,
* <code>Attr</code> nodes representing them are automatically created
* and attached to the element.
* <br>To create an element with a qualified name and namespace URI, use
* the <code>createElementNS</code> method.
* @param tagName The name of the element type to instantiate. For XML,
* this is case-sensitive. For HTML, the <code>tagName</code>
* parameter may be provided in any case, but it must be mapped to the
* canonical uppercase form by the DOM implementation.
* @return A new <code>Element</code> object with the
* <code>nodeName</code> attribute set to <code>tagName</code>, and
* <code>localName</code>, <code>prefix</code>, and
* <code>namespaceURI</code> set to <code>null</code>.
* @exception org.w3c.dom.DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an
* illegal character.
*/
public Element createElement(String tagName)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates an empty <code>DocumentFragment</code> object.
* @return A new <code>DocumentFragment</code>.
*/
public DocumentFragment createDocumentFragment();
/**
* Creates a <code>Text</code> node given the specified string.
* @param data The data for the node.
* @return The new <code>Text</code> object.
*/
public Text createTextNode(String data);
/**
* Creates a <code>Comment</code> node given the specified string.
* @param data The data for the node.
* @return The new <code>Comment</code> object.
*/
public Comment createComment(String data);
/**
* Creates a <code>CDATASection</code> node whose value is the specified
* string.
* @param data The data for the <code>CDATASection</code> contents.
* @return The new <code>CDATASection</code> object.
* @exception org.w3c.dom.DOMException
* NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document.
*/
public CDATASection createCDATASection(String data)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates a <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> node given the specified
* name and data strings.
* @param target The target part of the processing instruction.
* @param data The data for the node.
* @return The new <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> object.
* @exception org.w3c.dom.DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified target contains an
* illegal character.
* <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document.
*/
public ProcessingInstruction createProcessingInstruction(String target,
String data)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates an <code>Attr</code> of the given name. Note that the
* <code>Attr</code> instance can then be set on an <code>Element</code>
* using the <code>setAttributeNode</code> method.
* <br>To create an attribute with a qualified name and namespace URI, use
* the <code>createAttributeNS</code> method.
* @param name The name of the attribute.
* @return A new <code>Attr</code> object with the <code>nodeName</code>
* attribute set to <code>name</code>, and <code>localName</code>,
* <code>prefix</code>, and <code>namespaceURI</code> set to
* <code>null</code>. The value of the attribute is the empty string.
* @exception org.w3c.dom.DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an
* illegal character.
*/
public Attr createAttribute(String name)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates an <code>EntityReference</code> object. In addition, if the
* referenced entity is known, the child list of the
* <code>EntityReference</code> node is made the same as that of the
* corresponding <code>Entity</code> node.If any descendant of the
* <code>Entity</code> node has an unbound namespace prefix, the
* corresponding descendant of the created <code>EntityReference</code>
* node is also unbound; (its <code>namespaceURI</code> is
* <code>null</code>). The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to
* resolve namespace prefixes.
* @param name The name of the entity to reference.
* @return The new <code>EntityReference</code> object.
* @exception org.w3c.dom.DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an
* illegal character.
* <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if this document is an HTML document.
*/
public EntityReference createEntityReference(String name)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Returns a <code>NodeList</code> of all the <code>Elements</code> with a
* given tag name in the order in which they are encountered in a
* preorder traversal of the <code>Document</code> tree.
* @param tagname The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*"
* matches all tags.
* @return A new <code>NodeList</code> object containing all the matched
* <code>Elements</code>.
*/
public NodeList getElementsByTagName(String tagname);
/**
* Imports a node from another document to this document. The returned
* node has no parent; (<code>parentNode</code> is <code>null</code>).
* The source node is not altered or removed from the original document;
* this method creates a new copy of the source node.
* <br>For all nodes, importing a node creates a node object owned by the
* importing document, with attribute values identical to the source
* node's <code>nodeName</code> and <code>nodeType</code>, plus the
* attributes related to namespaces (<code>prefix</code>,
* <code>localName</code>, and <code>namespaceURI</code>). As in the
* <code>cloneNode</code> operation on a <code>Node</code>, the source
* node is not altered.
* <br>Additional information is copied as appropriate to the
* <code>nodeType</code>, attempting to mirror the behavior expected if
* a fragment of XML or HTML source was copied from one document to
* another, recognizing that the two documents may have different DTDs
* in the XML case. The following list describes the specifics for each
* type of node.
* <dl>
* <dt>ATTRIBUTE_NODE</dt>
* <dd>The <code>ownerElement</code> attribute
* is set to <code>null</code> and the <code>specified</code> flag is
* set to <code>true</code> on the generated <code>Attr</code>. The
* descendants of the source <code>Attr</code> are recursively imported
* and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree.
* Note that the <code>deep</code> parameter has no effect on
* <code>Attr</code> nodes; they always carry their children with them
* when imported.</dd>
* <dt>DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE</dt>
* <dd>If the <code>deep</code> option
* was set to <code>true</code>, the descendants of the source element
* are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form
* the corresponding subtree. Otherwise, this simply generates an empty
* <code>DocumentFragment</code>.</dd>
* <dt>DOCUMENT_NODE</dt>
* <dd><code>Document</code>
* nodes cannot be imported.</dd>
* <dt>DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE</dt>
* <dd><code>DocumentType</code>
* nodes cannot be imported.</dd>
* <dt>ELEMENT_NODE</dt>
* <dd>Specified attribute nodes of the
* source element are imported, and the generated <code>Attr</code>
* nodes are attached to the generated <code>Element</code>. Default
* attributes are not copied, though if the document being imported into
* defines default attributes for this element name, those are assigned.
* If the <code>importNode</code> <code>deep</code> parameter was set to
* <code>true</code>, the descendants of the source element are
* recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled to form the
* corresponding subtree.</dd>
* <dt>ENTITY_NODE</dt>
* <dd><code>Entity</code> nodes can be
* imported, however in the current release of the DOM the
* <code>DocumentType</code> is readonly. Ability to add these imported
* nodes to a <code>DocumentType</code> will be considered for addition
* to a future release of the DOM.On import, the <code>publicId</code>,
* <code>systemId</code>, and <code>notationName</code> attributes are
* copied. If a <code>deep</code> import is requested, the descendants
* of the the source <code>Entity</code> are recursively imported and
* the resulting nodes reassembled to form the corresponding subtree.</dd>
* <dt>
* ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE</dt>
* <dd>Only the <code>EntityReference</code> itself is
* copied, even if a <code>deep</code> import is requested, since the
* source and destination documents might have defined the entity
* differently. If the document being imported into provides a
* definition for this entity name, its value is assigned.</dd>
* <dt>NOTATION_NODE</dt>
* <dd>
* <code>Notation</code> nodes can be imported, however in the current
* release of the DOM the <code>DocumentType</code> is readonly. Ability
* to add these imported nodes to a <code>DocumentType</code> will be
* considered for addition to a future release of the DOM.On import, the
* <code>publicId</code> and <code>systemId</code> attributes are copied.
* Note that the <code>deep</code> parameter has no effect on
* <code>Notation</code> nodes since they never have any children.</dd>
* <dt>
* PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE</dt>
* <dd>The imported node copies its
* <code>target</code> and <code>data</code> values from those of the
* source node.</dd>
* <dt>TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE</dt>
* <dd>These three
* types of nodes inheriting from <code>CharacterData</code> copy their
* <code>data</code> and <code>length</code> attributes from those of
* the source node.</dd>
* </dl>
* @param importedNode The node to import.
* @param deep If <code>true</code>, recursively import the subtree under
* the specified node; if <code>false</code>, import only the node
* itself, as explained above. This has no effect on <code>Attr</code>
* , <code>EntityReference</code>, and <code>Notation</code> nodes.
* @return The imported node that belongs to this <code>Document</code>.
* @exception org.w3c.dom.DOMException
* NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the type of node being imported is not
* supported.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public Node importNode(Node importedNode,
boolean deep)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates an element of the given qualified name and namespace URI.
* @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the element to create.
* @param qualifiedName The qualified name of the element type to
* instantiate.
* @return A new <code>Element</code> object with the following
* attributes:
* <table border='1'>
* <tr>
* <th>Attribute</th>
* <th>Value</th>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Node.nodeName</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
* <code>qualifiedName</code></td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Node.namespaceURI</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
* <code>namespaceURI</code></td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Node.prefix</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>prefix, extracted
* from <code>qualifiedName</code>, or <code>null</code> if there is
* no prefix</td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Node.localName</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>local name, extracted from
* <code>qualifiedName</code></td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Element.tagName</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
* <code>qualifiedName</code></td>
* </tr>
* </table>
* @exception org.w3c.dom.DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name
* contains an illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification .
* <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the <code>qualifiedName</code> is
* malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the
* <code>qualifiedName</code> has a prefix and the
* <code>namespaceURI</code> is <code>null</code>, or if the
* <code>qualifiedName</code> has a prefix that is "xml" and the
* <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from "
* http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" .
* <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Always thrown if the current document does not
* support the <code>"XML"</code> feature, since namespaces were
* defined by XML.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public Element createElementNS(String namespaceURI,
String qualifiedName)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates an attribute of the given qualified name and namespace URI.
* @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the attribute to create.
* @param qualifiedName The qualified name of the attribute to
* instantiate.
* @return A new <code>Attr</code> object with the following attributes:
* <table border='1'>
* <tr>
* <th>
* Attribute</th>
* <th>Value</th>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Node.nodeName</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>qualifiedName</td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
* <code>Node.namespaceURI</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>namespaceURI</code></td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
* <code>Node.prefix</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>prefix, extracted from
* <code>qualifiedName</code>, or <code>null</code> if there is no
* prefix</td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Node.localName</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>local name, extracted from
* <code>qualifiedName</code></td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Attr.name</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
* <code>qualifiedName</code></td>
* </tr>
* <tr>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Node.nodeValue</code></td>
* <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>the empty
* string</td>
* </tr>
* </table>
* @exception org.w3c.dom.DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name
* contains an illegal character, per the XML 1.0 specification .
* <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the <code>qualifiedName</code> is
* malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the
* <code>qualifiedName</code> has a prefix and the
* <code>namespaceURI</code> is <code>null</code>, if the
* <code>qualifiedName</code> has a prefix that is "xml" and the
* <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from "
* http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace", or if the
* <code>qualifiedName</code>, or its prefix, is "xmlns" and the
* <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from "
* http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/".
* <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Always thrown if the current document does not
* support the <code>"XML"</code> feature, since namespaces were
* defined by XML.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public Attr createAttributeNS(String namespaceURI,
String qualifiedName)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Returns a <code>NodeList</code> of all the <code>Elements</code> with a
* given local name and namespace URI in the order in which they are
* encountered in a preorder traversal of the <code>Document</code> tree.
* @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The
* special value "*" matches all namespaces.
* @param localName The local name of the elements to match on. The
* special value "*" matches all local names.
* @return A new <code>NodeList</code> object containing all the matched
* <code>Elements</code>.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public NodeList getElementsByTagNameNS(String namespaceURI,
String localName);
/**
* Returns the <code>Element</code> whose <code>ID</code> is given by
* <code>elementId</code>. If no such element exists, returns
* <code>null</code>. Behavior is not defined if more than one element
* has this <code>ID</code>. The DOM implementation must have
* information that says which attributes are of type ID. Attributes
* with the name "ID" are not of type ID unless so defined.
* Implementations that do not know whether attributes are of type ID or
* not are expected to return <code>null</code>.
* @param elementId The unique <code>id</code> value for an element.
* @return The matching element.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public Element getElementById(String elementId);
}