| /* |
| * 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; |
| |
| /** |
| * The <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface provides a number of methods |
| * for performing operations that are independent of any particular instance |
| * of the document object model. |
| * <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 DOMImplementation { |
| /** |
| * Test if the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and |
| * version, as specified in . |
| * @param feature The name of the feature to test. |
| * @param version This is the version number of the feature to test. |
| * @return <code>true</code> if the feature is implemented in the |
| * specified version, <code>false</code> otherwise. |
| */ |
| public boolean hasFeature(String feature, |
| String version); |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates an empty <code>DocumentType</code> node. Entity declarations |
| * and notations are not made available. Entity reference expansions and |
| * default attribute additions do not occur.. |
| * @param qualifiedName The qualified name of the document type to be |
| * created. |
| * @param publicId The external subset public identifier. |
| * @param systemId The external subset system identifier. |
| * @return A new <code>DocumentType</code> node with |
| * <code>Node.ownerDocument</code> set to <code>null</code>. |
| * @exception DOMException |
| * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name is not |
| * an XML name according to [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. |
| * <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the <code>qualifiedName</code> is |
| * malformed. |
| * <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: May be raised if the implementation does not |
| * support the feature "XML" and the language exposed through the |
| * Document does not support XML Namespaces (such as [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/'>HTML 4.01</a>]). |
| * @since DOM Level 2 |
| */ |
| public DocumentType createDocumentType(String qualifiedName, |
| String publicId, |
| String systemId) |
| throws DOMException; |
| |
| /** |
| * Creates a DOM Document object of the specified type with its document |
| * element. |
| * <br>Note that based on the <code>DocumentType</code> given to create |
| * the document, the implementation may instantiate specialized |
| * <code>Document</code> objects that support additional features than |
| * the "Core", such as "HTML" [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109'>DOM Level 2 HTML</a>] |
| * . On the other hand, setting the <code>DocumentType</code> after the |
| * document was created makes this very unlikely to happen. |
| * Alternatively, specialized <code>Document</code> creation methods, |
| * such as <code>createHTMLDocument</code> [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109'>DOM Level 2 HTML</a>] |
| * , can be used to obtain specific types of <code>Document</code> |
| * objects. |
| * @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the document element to |
| * create or <code>null</code>. |
| * @param qualifiedName The qualified name of the document element to be |
| * created or <code>null</code>. |
| * @param doctype The type of document to be created or <code>null</code>. |
| * When <code>doctype</code> is not <code>null</code>, its |
| * <code>Node.ownerDocument</code> attribute is set to the document |
| * being created. |
| * @return A new <code>Document</code> object with its document element. |
| * If the <code>NamespaceURI</code>, <code>qualifiedName</code>, and |
| * <code>doctype</code> are <code>null</code>, the returned |
| * <code>Document</code> is empty with no document element. |
| * @exception DOMException |
| * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name is not |
| * an XML name according to [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. |
| * <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> is <code>null</code> and the |
| * <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from <code>null</code>, or |
| * if the <code>qualifiedName</code> has a prefix that is "xml" and |
| * the <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from "<a href='http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace'> |
| * http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</a>" [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/'>XML Namespaces</a>] |
| * , or if the DOM implementation does not support the |
| * <code>"XML"</code> feature but a non-null namespace URI was |
| * provided, since namespaces were defined by XML. |
| * <br>WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>doctype</code> has already |
| * been used with a different document or was created from a different |
| * implementation. |
| * <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: May be raised if the implementation does not |
| * support the feature "XML" and the language exposed through the |
| * Document does not support XML Namespaces (such as [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/'>HTML 4.01</a>]). |
| * @since DOM Level 2 |
| */ |
| public Document createDocument(String namespaceURI, |
| String qualifiedName, |
| DocumentType doctype) |
| throws DOMException; |
| |
| /** |
| * This method returns a specialized object which implements the |
| * specialized APIs of the specified feature and version, as specified |
| * in . The specialized object may also be obtained by using |
| * binding-specific casting methods but is not necessarily expected to, |
| * as discussed in . This method also allow the implementation to |
| * provide specialized objects which do not support the |
| * <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface. |
| * @param feature The name of the feature requested. Note that any plus |
| * sign "+" prepended to the name of the feature will be ignored since |
| * it is not significant in the context of this method. |
| * @param version This is the version number of the feature to test. |
| * @return Returns an object which implements the specialized APIs of |
| * the specified feature and version, if any, or <code>null</code> if |
| * there is no object which implements interfaces associated with that |
| * feature. If the <code>DOMObject</code> returned by this method |
| * implements the <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface, it must |
| * delegate to the primary core <code>DOMImplementation</code> and not |
| * return results inconsistent with the primary core |
| * <code>DOMImplementation</code> such as <code>hasFeature</code>, |
| * <code>getFeature</code>, etc. |
| * @since DOM Level 3 |
| */ |
| public Object getFeature(String feature, |
| String version); |
| |
| } |
