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commons-xml/java/external/src/org/w3c/dom/Document.java
jkesselm 1d6cda7c46 Updating the W3C DOM documentation.
1) Added HTML Level 1. Xerces apparently wants this,
and there's certainly no reason not to have it in xml-commons.

2) Fixed the generated @param comments. The DOM WG's stylesheet
for producing Javadoc from their abstract XML markup had a glitch,
and did not reliably produce a space between the parameter name
and its description. I've submitted that as an erratum, to make sure
they fix it. Meanwhile, I've gone through and fixed them all manually.
(Not everything could be fixed by simply replacing "The" with " The";
some descriptions start with other words.)

I'm an ex-member of the DOM WG, and still on the IG, so feel free to
blame me for the fact that this wasn't caught before the DOM shipped
... and for making the change. The fact that these files are no
longer byte-for-byte identical with those supplied by the W3C will
annoy some folks, but I think it's fairly safe to assume that the DOM WG
will accept the erratum.

And we definitely want to fix it here rather than having each Apache
project patch their own copy.


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/xml/commons/trunk@225942 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
2002-01-04 20:20:52 +00:00

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/*
* 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;
/**
* 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>.
*/
public interface Document extends Node {
/**
* The Document Type Declaration (see <code>DocumentType</code>)
* associated with this document. For HTML documents as well as XML
* documents without a document type declaration this returns
* <code>null</code>. The DOM Level 2 does not support editing the
* Document Type Declaration. <code>docType</code> cannot be altered in
* any way, including through the use of methods inherited from the
* <code>Node</code> interface, such as <code>insertNode</code> or
* <code>removeNode</code>.
*/
public DocumentType getDoctype();
/**
* The <code>DOMImplementation</code> object that handles this document. A
* DOM application may use objects from multiple implementations.
*/
public DOMImplementation getImplementation();
/**
* This is a convenience attribute that allows direct access to the child
* node that is the root element of the document. For HTML documents,
* this is the element with the tagName "HTML".
*/
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. For HTML, the <code>tagName</code>
* parameter may be provided in any case, but it must be mapped to the
* canonical uppercase form 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 contains an
* illegal character.
*/
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.
* @param data The data for the node.
* @return The new <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> object.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified target contains an
* illegal character.
* <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 contains an
* illegal character.
*/
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.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 does not support any mechanism to
* resolve namespace prefixes.
* @param name The name of the entity to reference.
* @return The new <code>EntityReference</code> object.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified name contains an
* illegal character.
* <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.
* @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. The returned
* node has no parent; (<code>parentNode</code> is <code>null</code>).
* The source node is not altered or removed from the original document;
* this method creates a new copy of the source node.
* <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 on a <code>Node</code>, 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 element
* are recursively imported and the resulting nodes reassembled 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>Specified 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 not 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
* <code>Notation</code> nodes since they never 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.</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.</dd>
*
* @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 <code>Attr</code>
* , <code>EntityReference</code>, and <code>Notation</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.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public Node importNode(Node importedNode,
boolean deep)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates an element of the given qualified name and namespace URI.
* HTML-only DOM implementations do not need to implement this method.
* @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:AttributeValue<code>Node.nodeName</code>
* <code>qualifiedName</code><code>Node.namespaceURI</code>
* <code>namespaceURI</code><code>Node.prefix</code>prefix, extracted
* from <code>qualifiedName</code>, or <code>null</code> if there is
* no prefix<code>Node.localName</code>local name, extracted from
* <code>qualifiedName</code><code>Element.tagName</code>
* <code>qualifiedName</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, 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" .
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public Element createElementNS(String namespaceURI,
String qualifiedName)
throws DOMException;
/**
* Creates an attribute of the given qualified name and namespace URI.
* HTML-only DOM implementations do not need to implement this method.
* @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:
* AttributeValue<code>Node.nodeName</code>qualifiedName
* <code>Node.namespaceURI</code><code>namespaceURI</code>
* <code>Node.prefix</code>prefix, extracted from
* <code>qualifiedName</code>, or <code>null</code> if there is no
* prefix<code>Node.localName</code>local name, extracted from
* <code>qualifiedName</code><code>Attr.name</code>
* <code>qualifiedName</code><code>Node.nodeValue</code>the empty
* string
* @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>, 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", or if the
* <code>qualifiedName</code> is "xmlns" and the
* <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from "
* http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/".
* @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 the order in which they are
* encountered in a preorder traversal of the <code>Document</code> tree.
* @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the elements to match on. The
* special value "*" matches all namespaces.
* @param localName The local name of the elements to match on. The
* special value "*" 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> whose <code>ID</code> is given by
* <code>elementId</code>. If no such element exists, returns
* <code>null</code>. Behavior is not defined if more than one element
* has this <code>ID</code>. The DOM implementation must have
* information that says which attributes are of type ID. Attributes
* with the name "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.
* @since DOM Level 2
*/
public Element getElementById(String elementId);
}