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This * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] 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. * * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 */ 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> * and the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>. */ public interface Document extends Node { /** * The Document Type Declaration (see <code>DocumentType</code>) * associated with this document. For XML documents without a document * type declaration this returns <code>null</code>. For HTML documents, * a <code>DocumentType</code> object may be returned, independently of * the presence or absence of document type declaration in the HTML * document. * <br>This provides direct access to the <code>DocumentType</code> node, * child node of this <code>Document</code>. This node can be set at * document creation time and later changed through the use of child * nodes manipulation methods, such as <code>Node.insertBefore</code>, * or <code>Node.replaceChild</code>. Note, however, that while some * implementations may instantiate different types of * <code>Document</code> objects supporting additional features than the * "Core", such as "HTML" [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109'>DOM Level 2 HTML</a>] * , based on the <code>DocumentType</code> specified at creation time, * changing it afterwards is very unlikely to result in a change of the * features supported. * @since DOM Level 3 * @return the Document Type Declaration associated with this document, or <code>null</code> */ public DocumentType getDoctype(); /** * The <code>DOMImplementation</code> object that handles this document. A * DOM application may use objects from multiple implementations. * @return the <code>DOMImplementation</code> object that handles this document */ public DOMImplementation getImplementation(); /** * This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child * node that is the root element of the document. * @return the child node that is the root element of the document */ 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. otherwise it depends on the * case-sensitivity of the markup language in use. In that case, the * name is mapped to the canonical form of that markup 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 DOMException * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name is not an XML * name according to the XML version in use (1.0 for JSR 280). */ 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 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. Unlike * <code>Document.createElementNS</code> or * <code>Document.createAttributeNS</code>, no namespace well-formed * checking is done on the target name. * @param data The data for the node. * @return The new <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> object. * @exception DOMException * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified target is not an XML * name according to the XML version in use (1.0 for JSR 280). * <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 DOMException * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name is not an XML * name according to the XML version in use (1.0 for JSR 280). */ 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. * <p ><b>Note:</b> 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 and * 3 do not support any mechanism to resolve namespace prefixes in this * case. * @param name The name of the entity to reference. Unlike * <code>Document.createElementNS</code> or * <code>Document.createAttributeNS</code>, no namespace well-formed * checking is done on the entity name. * @return The new <code>EntityReference</code> object. * @exception DOMException * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name is not an XML * name according to the XML version in use (1.0 for JSR 280). * <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. For XML, the <code>tagname</code> parameter is * case-sensitive, otherwise it depends on the case-sensitivity of the * markup language in use. * @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, without altering * or removing the source node from the original document; this method * creates a new copy of the source node. The returned node has no * parent; (<code>parentNode</code> is <code>null</code>). * <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, 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 * <code>DocumentFragment</code> are recursively imported and the * resulting nodes reassembled under the imported * <code>DocumentFragment</code> 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><em>Specified</em> 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 <em>not</em> 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 this type * of nodes since they cannot 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. Note that the <code>deep</code> parameter has no effect * on this type of nodes since they cannot have any children.</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.Note that the <code>deep</code> parameter has no effect * on this type of nodes since they cannot have any children.</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 nodes that cannot * have any children, and on <code>Attr</code>, and * <code>EntityReference</code> nodes. * @return The imported node that belongs to this <code>Document</code>. * @exception DOMException * NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the type of node being imported is not * supported. * <br>INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if one of the imported names is not * an XML name according to the XML version in use (1.0 for JSR 280). * This may happen when importing an XML 1.1 * [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml11-20040204/'>XML 1.1</a>] * element into an XML 1.0 document, for instance. * @since DOM Level 2 */ public Node importNode(Node importedNode, boolean deep) throws DOMException; /** * Creates an element of the given qualified name and namespace URI. * <br>Per [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/'>XML Namespaces</a>] * , applications must use the value <code>null</code> as the * namespaceURI parameter for methods if they wish to have no namespace. * @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' cellpadding='3'> * <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 DOMException * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified * <code>qualifiedName</code> is not an XML name according to the XML * version in use (1.0 for JSR 280). * <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the <code>qualifiedName</code> is a * malformed qualified name, 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 "<a href='http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace'> * http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</a>" [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/'>XML Namespaces</a>] * , or if the <code>qualifiedName</code> or its prefix is "xmlns" and * the <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from "<a href='http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/'>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</a>", or if the <code>namespaceURI</code> is "<a href='http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/'>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</a>" and neither the <code>qualifiedName</code> nor its prefix is "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 Element createElementNS(String namespaceURI, String qualifiedName) throws DOMException; /** * Creates an attribute of the given qualified name and namespace URI. * <br>Per [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/'>XML Namespaces</a>] * , applications must use the value <code>null</code> as the * <code>namespaceURI</code> parameter for methods if they wish to have * no namespace. * @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' cellpadding='3'> * <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 DOMException * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified * <code>qualifiedName</code> is not an XML name according to the XML * version in use (1.0 for JSR 280). * <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the <code>qualifiedName</code> is a * malformed qualified name, 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 "<a href='http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace'> * http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</a>", if the <code>qualifiedName</code> or its prefix is "xmlns" and the * <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from "<a href='http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/'>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</a>", or if the <code>namespaceURI</code> is "<a href='http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/'>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</a>" and neither the <code>qualifiedName</code> nor its prefix is "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 document order. * @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The * special value <code>"*"</code> matches all namespaces. * @param localName The local name of the elements to match on. The * special value <code>"*"</code> 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>that has an ID attribute with the *given value. If no such element exists, this returns <code>null</code>. * If more than one element has an ID attribute with that value, what * is returned is undefined. * <br>The DOM implementation is expected to use the attribute * <code>Attr.isId</code> to determine if an attribute is of type ID. * <p ><b>Note:</b> Attributes with the name "ID" or "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 or <code>null</code> if there is none. * @since DOM Level 2 */ public Element getElementById(String elementId); /** * Attempts to adopt a node from another document to this document. If * supported, it changes the <code>ownerDocument</code> of the source * node, its children, as well as the attached attribute nodes if there * are any. If the source node has a parent it is first removed from the * child list of its parent. This effectively allows moving a subtree * from one document to another (unlike <code>importNode()</code> which * create a copy of the source node instead of moving it). When it * fails, applications should use <code>Document.importNode()</code> * instead. Note that if the adopted node is already part of this * document (i.e. the source and target document are the same), this * method still has the effect of removing the source node from the * child list of its parent, if any. 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 * adopted <code>Attr</code>. The descendants of the source * <code>Attr</code> are recursively adopted.</dd> * <dt>DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE</dt> * <dd>The * descendants of the source node are recursively adopted.</dd> * <dt>DOCUMENT_NODE</dt> * <dd> * <code>Document</code> nodes cannot be adopted.</dd> * <dt>DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE</dt> * <dd> * <code>DocumentType</code> nodes cannot be adopted.</dd> * <dt>ELEMENT_NODE</dt> * <dd><em>Specified</em> attribute nodes of the source element are adopted. Default attributes * are discarded, though if the document being adopted into defines * default attributes for this element name, those are assigned. The * descendants of the source element are recursively adopted.</dd> * <dt>ENTITY_NODE</dt> * <dd> * <code>Entity</code> nodes cannot be adopted.</dd> * <dt>ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE</dt> * <dd>Only * the <code>EntityReference</code> node itself is adopted, the * descendants are discarded, 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 cannot be * adopted.</dd> * <dt>PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, * COMMENT_NODE</dt> * <dd>These nodes can all be adopted. No specifics.</dd> * </dl> * <p ><b>Note:</b> Since it does not create new nodes unlike the * <code>Document.importNode()</code> method, this method does not raise * an <code>INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR</code> exception. * @param source The node to move into this document. * @return The adopted node, or <code>null</code> if this operation * fails, such as when the source node comes from a different * implementation. * @exception DOMException * NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the source node is of type * <code>DOCUMENT</code>, <code>DOCUMENT_TYPE</code>, * <code>ENTITY_NODE</code>, <code>NOTATION_NODE</code>. * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the source node is * readonly. * @since DOM Level 3 */ public Node adoptNode(Node source) throws DOMException; }