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/*
* 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>DOMErrorHandler</code> is a callback interface that the DOM
* implementation can call when reporting errors that happens while
* processing XML data, or when doing some other processing (e.g. validating
* a document). A <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> object can be attached to a
* <code>Document</code> using the "error-handler" on the
* <code>DOMConfiguration</code> interface. If more than one error needs to
* be reported during an operation, the sequence and numbers of the errors
* passed to the error handler are implementation dependent.
* <p> The application that is using the DOM implementation is expected to
* implement this interface.
* <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>.
* @since DOM Level 3
*/
public interface DOMErrorHandler {
/**
* This method is called on the error handler when an error occurs.
* <br> If an exception is thrown from this method, it is considered to be
* equivalent of returning <code>true</code>.
* @param error The error object that describes the error. This object
* may be reused by the DOM implementation across multiple calls to
* the <code>handleError</code> method.
* @return If the <code>handleError</code> method returns
* <code>false</code>, the DOM implementation should stop the current
* processing when possible. If the method returns <code>true</code>,
* the processing may continue depending on
* <code>DOMError.severity</code>.
*/
public boolean handleError(DOMError error);
}