/*
* Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
* Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
* Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
* Intellectual Property License. This program 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 W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more
* details.
*/
package org.w3c.dom.smil;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
/**
* This is a placeholder - subject to change. This represents generic
* timelines.
*/
public interface ElementTimeContainer extends ElementTime {
/**
* A NodeList that contains all timed childrens of this node. If there are
* no timed children, the <code>Nodelist</code> is empty. An iterator
* is more appropriate here than a node list but it requires Traversal
* module support.
*/
public NodeList getTimeChildren();
/**
* Returns a list of child elements active at the specified invocation.
* @param instant The desired position on the local timeline in
* milliseconds.
* @return List of timed child-elements active at instant.
*/
public NodeList getActiveChildrenAt(float instant);
}