Source for org.w3c.dom.Entity

   1: /*
   2:  * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
   3:  *
   4:  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
   5:  * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
   6:  * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
   7:  * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
   8:  * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
   9:  *
  10:  * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
  11:  */
  12: 
  13: package org.w3c.dom;
  14: 
  15: /**
  16:  * This interface represents a known entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an 
  17:  * XML document. Note that this models the entity itself <em>not</em> the entity declaration.
  18:  * <p>The <code>nodeName</code> attribute that is inherited from 
  19:  * <code>Node</code> contains the name of the entity.
  20:  * <p>An XML processor may choose to completely expand entities before the 
  21:  * structure model is passed to the DOM; in this case there will be no 
  22:  * <code>EntityReference</code> nodes in the document tree.
  23:  * <p>XML does not mandate that a non-validating XML processor read and 
  24:  * process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in 
  25:  * parameter entities. This means that parsed entities declared in the 
  26:  * external subset need not be expanded by some classes of applications, and 
  27:  * that the replacement text of the entity may not be available. When the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204#intern-replacement'>
  28:  * replacement text</a> is available, the corresponding <code>Entity</code> node's child list 
  29:  * represents the structure of that replacement value. Otherwise, the child 
  30:  * list is empty.
  31:  * <p>DOM Level 3 does not support editing <code>Entity</code> nodes; if a 
  32:  * user wants to make changes to the contents of an <code>Entity</code>, 
  33:  * every related <code>EntityReference</code> node has to be replaced in the 
  34:  * structure model by a clone of the <code>Entity</code>'s contents, and 
  35:  * then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead. 
  36:  * <code>Entity</code> nodes and all their descendants are readonly.
  37:  * <p>An <code>Entity</code> node does not have any parent.
  38:  * <p ><b>Note:</b> If the entity contains an unbound namespace prefix, the 
  39:  * <code>namespaceURI</code> of the corresponding node in the 
  40:  * <code>Entity</code> node subtree is <code>null</code>. The same is true 
  41:  * for <code>EntityReference</code> nodes that refer to this entity, when 
  42:  * they are created using the <code>createEntityReference</code> method of 
  43:  * the <code>Document</code> interface.
  44:  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>.
  45:  */
  46: public interface Entity extends Node {
  47:     /**
  48:      * The public identifier associated with the entity if specified, and 
  49:      * <code>null</code> otherwise.
  50:      */
  51:     public String getPublicId();
  52: 
  53:     /**
  54:      * The system identifier associated with the entity if specified, and 
  55:      * <code>null</code> otherwise. This may be an absolute URI or not.
  56:      */
  57:     public String getSystemId();
  58: 
  59:     /**
  60:      * For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. For 
  61:      * parsed entities, this is <code>null</code>.
  62:      */
  63:     public String getNotationName();
  64: 
  65:     /**
  66:      * An attribute specifying the encoding used for this entity at the time 
  67:      * of parsing, when it is an external parsed entity. This is 
  68:      * <code>null</code> if it an entity from the internal subset or if it 
  69:      * is not known.
  70:      * @since DOM Level 3
  71:      */
  72:     public String getInputEncoding();
  73: 
  74:     /**
  75:      * An attribute specifying, as part of the text declaration, the encoding 
  76:      * of this entity, when it is an external parsed entity. This is 
  77:      * <code>null</code> otherwise.
  78:      * @since DOM Level 3
  79:      */
  80:     public String getXmlEncoding();
  81: 
  82:     /**
  83:      * An attribute specifying, as part of the text declaration, the version 
  84:      * number of this entity, when it is an external parsed entity. This is 
  85:      * <code>null</code> otherwise.
  86:      * @since DOM Level 3
  87:      */
  88:     public String getXmlVersion();
  89: 
  90: }