| /* |
| * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, |
| * |
| * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for |
| * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. 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; |
| |
| /** |
| * <code>EntityReference</code> nodes may be used to represent an entity |
| * reference in the tree. Note that character references and references to |
| * predefined entities are considered to be expanded by the HTML or XML |
| * processor so that characters are represented by their Unicode equivalent |
| * rather than by an entity reference. Moreover, the XML processor may |
| * completely expand references to entities while building the |
| * <code>Document</code>, instead of providing <code>EntityReference</code> |
| * nodes. If it does provide such nodes, then for an |
| * <code>EntityReference</code> node that represents a reference to a known |
| * entity an <code>Entity</code> exists, and the subtree of the |
| * <code>EntityReference</code> node is a copy of the <code>Entity</code> |
| * node subtree. However, the latter may not be true when an entity contains |
| * an unbound namespace prefix. In such a case, because the namespace prefix |
| * resolution depends on where the entity reference is, the descendants of |
| * the <code>EntityReference</code> node may be bound to different namespace |
| * URIs. When an <code>EntityReference</code> node represents a reference to |
| * an unknown entity, the node has no children and its replacement value, |
| * when used by <code>Attr.value</code> for example, is empty. |
| * <p>As for <code>Entity</code> nodes, <code>EntityReference</code> nodes and |
| * all their descendants are readonly. |
| * <p ><b>Note:</b> <code>EntityReference</code> nodes may cause element |
| * content and attribute value normalization problems when, such as in XML |
| * 1.0 and XML Schema, the normalization is performed after entity reference |
| * are expanded. |
| * <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>. |
| */ |
| public interface EntityReference extends Node { |
| } |
