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package org.w3c.dom;
/**
* The <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface provides a number of methods
* for performing operations that are independent of any particular instance
* of the document object model.
* <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 DOMImplementation {
/**
* Test if the DOM implementation implements a specific feature.
* @param feature The name of the feature to test (case-insensitive). The
* values used by DOM features are defined throughout the DOM Level 2
* specifications and listed in the section. The name must be an XML
* name. To avoid possible conflicts, as a convention, names referring
* to features defined outside the DOM specification should be made
* unique by reversing the name of the Internet domain name of the
* person (or the organization that the person belongs to) who defines
* the feature, component by component, and using this as a prefix.
* For instance, the W3C SVG Working Group defines the feature
* "org.w3c.dom.svg".
* @param version This is the version number of the feature to test. In
* Level 2, the string can be either "2.0" or "1.0". If the version is
* not specified (parameter is either null or the empty string, as per
* http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Events/events.html#Conformance),
* supporting any version of the feature causes the
* method to return <code>true</code>.
* @return <code>true</code> if the feature is implemented in the
* specified version, <code>false</code> otherwise.
*/
public boolean hasFeature(String feature,
String version);
/**
* Creates an empty <code>DocumentType</code> node. Entity declarations
* and notations are not made available. Entity reference expansions and
* default attribute additions do not occur. It is expected that a
* future version of the DOM will provide a way for populating a
* <code>DocumentType</code>.
* @param qualifiedName The qualified name of the document type to be
* created.
* @param publicId The external subset public identifier.
* @param systemId The external subset system identifier.
* @return A new <code>DocumentType</code> node with
* <code>Node.ownerDocument</code> set to <code>null</code>.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name
* contains an illegal character.
* <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the <code>qualifiedName</code> is
* malformed.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public DocumentType createDocumentType(String qualifiedName,
String publicId,
String systemId)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates an XML <code>Document</code> object of the specified type with
* its document element.
* @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the document element to create.
* @param qualifiedName The qualified name of the document element to be
* created.
* @param doctype The type of document to be created or <code>null</code>.
* When <code>doctype</code> is not <code>null</code>, its
* <code>Node.ownerDocument</code> attribute is set to the document
* being created.
* @return A new <code>Document</code> object.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name
* contains an illegal character.
* <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the <code>qualifiedName</code> is
* malformed, 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>WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>doctype</code> has already
* been used with a different document or was created from a different
* implementation.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public Document createDocument(String namespaceURI,
String qualifiedName,
DocumentType doctype)
throws DOMException;
/**
* This method returns a specialized object which implements the
* specialized APIs of the specified feature and version, as specified
* in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#DOMFeatures"
* >DOM Features</a>. The specialized object may also be obtained by using
* binding-specific casting methods but is not necessarily expected to,
* as discussed in
* <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#Embedded-DOM"
* >Mixed DOM Implementations</a>.
* This method also allow the implementation to
* provide specialized objects which do not support the
* <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface.
* <p><b>Note:</b> when using the methods that take a feature and a
* version as parameters, applications can use null or empty string
* for the version parameter if they don't wish to specify a particular
* version for the specified feature.
* @param feature The name of the feature requested. Note that any plus
* sign "+" prepended to the name of the feature will be ignored since
* it is not significant in the context of this method.
* @param version This is the version number of the feature to test.
* @return Returns an object which implements the specialized APIs of
* the specified feature and version, if any, or <code>null</code> if
* there is no object which implements interfaces associated with that
* feature. If the <code>DOMObject</code> returned by this method
* implements the <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface, it must
* delegate to the primary core <code>DOMImplementation</code> and not
* return results inconsistent with the primary core
* <code>DOMImplementation</code> such as <code>hasFeature</code>,
* <code>getFeature</code>, etc.
* @since DOM Level 3
*/
public Object getFeature(String feature,
String version);
}