73 lines
3.7 KiB
Java
73 lines
3.7 KiB
Java
/*
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* DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
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*
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* This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
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* under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
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* published by the Free Software Foundation. Oracle designates this
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* particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
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* by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
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*
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* This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
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* ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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* FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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* version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
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* accompanied this code).
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*
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* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
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* 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
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* Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
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*
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* Please contact Oracle, 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065 USA
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* or visit www.oracle.com if you need additional information or have any
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* questions.
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*/
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/*
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* This file is available under and governed by the GNU General Public
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* License version 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
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* However, the following notice accompanied the original version of this
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* file and, per its terms, should not be removed:
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*
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* Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
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*
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* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
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* Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
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* work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
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* it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
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* warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
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*
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* [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
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*/
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package org.w3c.dom;
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/**
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* <code>EntityReference</code> nodes may be used to represent an entity
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* reference in the tree. Note that character references and references to
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* predefined entities are considered to be expanded by the HTML or XML
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* processor so that characters are represented by their Unicode equivalent
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* rather than by an entity reference. Moreover, the XML processor may
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* completely expand references to entities while building the
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* <code>Document</code>, instead of providing <code>EntityReference</code>
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* nodes. If it does provide such nodes, then for an
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* <code>EntityReference</code> node that represents a reference to a known
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* entity an <code>Entity</code> exists, and the subtree of the
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* <code>EntityReference</code> node is a copy of the <code>Entity</code>
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* node subtree. However, the latter may not be true when an entity contains
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* an unbound namespace prefix. In such a case, because the namespace prefix
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* resolution depends on where the entity reference is, the descendants of
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* the <code>EntityReference</code> node may be bound to different namespace
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* URIs. When an <code>EntityReference</code> node represents a reference to
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* an unknown entity, the node has no children and its replacement value,
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* when used by <code>Attr.value</code> for example, is empty.
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* <p>As for <code>Entity</code> nodes, <code>EntityReference</code> nodes and
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* all their descendants are readonly.
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* <p ><b>Note:</b> <code>EntityReference</code> nodes may cause element
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* content and attribute value normalization problems when, such as in XML
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* 1.0 and XML Schema, the normalization is performed after entity reference
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* are expanded.
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* <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>.
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*/
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public interface EntityReference extends Node {
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}
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