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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: * The <code>Text</code> interface inherits from <code>CharacterData</code> 17: * and represents the textual content (termed <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204#syntax'>character data</a> in XML) of an <code>Element</code> or <code>Attr</code>. If there is no 18: * markup inside an element's content, the text is contained in a single 19: * object implementing the <code>Text</code> interface that is the only 20: * child of the element. If there is markup, it is parsed into the 21: * information items (elements, comments, etc.) and <code>Text</code> nodes 22: * that form the list of children of the element. 23: * <p>When a document is first made available via the DOM, there is only one 24: * <code>Text</code> node for each block of text. Users may create adjacent 25: * <code>Text</code> nodes that represent the contents of a given element 26: * without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way 27: * to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, so they 28: * will not (in general) persist between DOM editing sessions. The 29: * <code>Node.normalize()</code> method merges any such adjacent 30: * <code>Text</code> objects into a single node for each block of text. 31: * <p> No lexical check is done on the content of a <code>Text</code> node 32: * and, depending on its position in the document, some characters must be 33: * escaped during serialization using character references; e.g. the 34: * characters "<&" if the textual content is part of an element or of 35: * an attribute, the character sequence "]]>" when part of an element, 36: * the quotation mark character " or the apostrophe character ' when part of 37: * an attribute. 38: * <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>. 39: */ 40: public interface Text extends CharacterData { 41: /** 42: * Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified <code>offset</code>, 43: * keeping both in the tree as siblings. After being split, this node 44: * will contain all the content up to the <code>offset</code> point. A 45: * new node of the same type, which contains all the content at and 46: * after the <code>offset</code> point, is returned. If the original 47: * node had a parent node, the new node is inserted as the next sibling 48: * of the original node. When the <code>offset</code> is equal to the 49: * length of this node, the new node has no data. 50: * @param offset The 16-bit unit offset at which to split, starting from 51: * <code>0</code>. 52: * @return The new node, of the same type as this node. 53: * @exception DOMException 54: * INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater 55: * than the number of 16-bit units in <code>data</code>. 56: * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. 57: */ 58: public Text splitText(int offset) 59: throws DOMException; 60: 61: /** 62: * Returns whether this text node contains <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-20040204#infoitem.character'> 63: * element content whitespace</a>, often abusively called "ignorable whitespace". The text node is 64: * determined to contain whitespace in element content during the load 65: * of the document or if validation occurs while using 66: * <code>Document.normalizeDocument()</code>. 67: * @since DOM Level 3 68: */ 69: public boolean isElementContentWhitespace(); 70: 71: /** 72: * Returns all text of <code>Text</code> nodes logically-adjacent text 73: * nodes to this node, concatenated in document order. 74: * <br>For instance, in the example below <code>wholeText</code> on the 75: * <code>Text</code> node that contains "bar" returns "barfoo", while on 76: * the <code>Text</code> node that contains "foo" it returns "barfoo". 77: * @since DOM Level 3 78: */ 79: public String getWholeText(); 80: 81: /** 82: * Replaces the text of the current node and all logically-adjacent text 83: * nodes with the specified text. All logically-adjacent text nodes are 84: * removed including the current node unless it was the recipient of the 85: * replacement text. 86: * <br>This method returns the node which received the replacement text. 87: * The returned node is: 88: * <ul> 89: * <li><code>null</code>, when the replacement text is 90: * the empty string; 91: * </li> 92: * <li>the current node, except when the current node is 93: * read-only; 94: * </li> 95: * <li> a new <code>Text</code> node of the same type ( 96: * <code>Text</code> or <code>CDATASection</code>) as the current node 97: * inserted at the location of the replacement. 98: * </li> 99: * </ul> 100: * <br>For instance, in the above example calling 101: * <code>replaceWholeText</code> on the <code>Text</code> node that 102: * contains "bar" with "yo" in argument results in the following: 103: * <br>Where the nodes to be removed are read-only descendants of an 104: * <code>EntityReference</code>, the <code>EntityReference</code> must 105: * be removed instead of the read-only nodes. If any 106: * <code>EntityReference</code> to be removed has descendants that are 107: * not <code>EntityReference</code>, <code>Text</code>, or 108: * <code>CDATASection</code> nodes, the <code>replaceWholeText</code> 109: * method must fail before performing any modification of the document, 110: * raising a <code>DOMException</code> with the code 111: * <code>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR</code>. 112: * <br>For instance, in the example below calling 113: * <code>replaceWholeText</code> on the <code>Text</code> node that 114: * contains "bar" fails, because the <code>EntityReference</code> node 115: * "ent" contains an <code>Element</code> node which cannot be removed. 116: * @param content The content of the replacing <code>Text</code> node. 117: * @return The <code>Text</code> node created with the specified content. 118: * @exception DOMException 119: * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if one of the <code>Text</code> 120: * nodes being replaced is readonly. 121: * @since DOM Level 3 122: */ 123: public Text replaceWholeText(String content) 124: throws DOMException; 125: 126: }
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