40 lines
2.2 KiB
Java
40 lines
2.2 KiB
Java
/*
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* Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
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* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
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* Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
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* Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
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* Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
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* hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
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* the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
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* PURPOSE.
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* See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
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*/
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package org.w3c.dom;
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/**
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* <code>EntityReference</code> objects may be inserted into the structure
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* model when an entity reference is in the source document, or when the
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* user wishes to insert an entity reference. Note that character references
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* and references to predefined entities are considered to be expanded by
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* the HTML or XML processor so that characters are represented by their
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* Unicode equivalent rather than by an entity reference. Moreover, the XML
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* processor may completely expand references to entities while building the
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* structure model, instead of providing <code>EntityReference</code>
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* objects. If it does provide such objects, then for a given
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* <code>EntityReference</code> node, it may be that there is no
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* <code>Entity</code> node representing the referenced entity. If such an
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* <code>Entity</code> exists, then the subtree of the
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* <code>EntityReference</code> node is in general a copy of the
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* <code>Entity</code> node subtree. However, this may not be true when an
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* entity contains an unbound namespace prefix. In such a case, because the
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* namespace prefix resolution depends on where the entity reference is, the
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* descendants of the <code>EntityReference</code> node may be bound to
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* different namespace URIs.
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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>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>.
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*/
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public interface EntityReference extends Node {
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}
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