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16 * The <code>Node</code> interface is the primary datatype for the entire
17 * Document Object Model. It represents a single node in the document tree.
18 * While all objects implementing the <code>Node</code> interface expose
19 * methods for dealing with children, not all objects implementing the
20 * <code>Node</code> interface may have children. For example,
21 * <code>Text</code> nodes may not have children, and adding children to
22 * such nodes results in a <code>DOMException</code> being raised.
23 * <p>The attributes <code>nodeName</code>, <code>nodeValue</code> and
24 * <code>attributes</code> are included as a mechanism to get at node
25 * information without casting down to the specific derived interface. In
26 * cases where there is no obvious mapping of these attributes for a
27 * specific <code>nodeType</code> (e.g., <code>nodeValue</code> for an
28 * <code>Element</code> or <code>attributes</code> for a <code>Comment</code>
29 * ), this returns <code>null</code>. Note that the specialized interfaces
30 * may contain additional and more convenient mechanisms to get and set the
31 * relevant information.
32 * <p>The values of <code>nodeName</code>,
33 * <code>nodeValue</code>, and <code>attributes</code> vary according to the
34 * node type as follows:
35 * <table border='1' cellpadding='3'>
43 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
44 * <code>Attr</code></td>
45 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same as <code>Attr.name</code></td>
46 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same as
47 * <code>Attr.value</code></td>
48 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
51 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>CDATASection</code></td>
52 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
53 * <code>"#cdata-section"</code></td>
54 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same as <code>CharacterData.data</code>, the
55 * content of the CDATA Section</td>
56 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
59 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Comment</code></td>
60 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
61 * <code>"#comment"</code></td>
62 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same as <code>CharacterData.data</code>, the
63 * content of the comment</td>
64 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
67 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Document</code></td>
68 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
69 * <code>"#document"</code></td>
70 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
71 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
74 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
75 * <code>DocumentFragment</code></td>
76 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>"#document-fragment"</code></td>
77 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
78 * <code>null</code></td>
79 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
82 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>DocumentType</code></td>
83 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same as
84 * <code>DocumentType.name</code></td>
85 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
86 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
89 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
90 * <code>Element</code></td>
91 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same as <code>Element.tagName</code></td>
92 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
93 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
94 * <code>NamedNodeMap</code></td>
97 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Entity</code></td>
98 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>entity name</td>
99 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
100 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
101 * <code>null</code></td>
104 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>EntityReference</code></td>
105 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>name of entity referenced</td>
106 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
107 * <code>null</code></td>
108 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
111 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Notation</code></td>
112 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>notation name</td>
113 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
114 * <code>null</code></td>
115 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
118 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>ProcessingInstruction</code></td>
119 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same
120 * as <code>ProcessingInstruction.target</code></td>
121 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same as
122 * <code>ProcessingInstruction.data</code></td>
123 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
126 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>Text</code></td>
127 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
128 * <code>"#text"</code></td>
129 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>same as <code>CharacterData.data</code>, the content
130 * of the text node</td>
131 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>null</code></td>
134 * <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>.
136 public interface Node {
139 * The node is an <code>Element</code>.
141 public static final short ELEMENT_NODE = 1;
143 * The node is an <code>Attr</code>.
145 public static final short ATTRIBUTE_NODE = 2;
147 * The node is a <code>Text</code> node.
149 public static final short TEXT_NODE = 3;
151 * The node is a <code>CDATASection</code>.
153 public static final short CDATA_SECTION_NODE = 4;
155 * The node is an <code>EntityReference</code>.
157 public static final short ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE = 5;
159 * The node is an <code>Entity</code>.
161 public static final short ENTITY_NODE = 6;
163 * The node is a <code>ProcessingInstruction</code>.
165 public static final short PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE = 7;
167 * The node is a <code>Comment</code>.
169 public static final short COMMENT_NODE = 8;
171 * The node is a <code>Document</code>.
173 public static final short DOCUMENT_NODE = 9;
175 * The node is a <code>DocumentType</code>.
177 public static final short DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE = 10;
179 * The node is a <code>DocumentFragment</code>.
181 public static final short DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE = 11;
183 * The node is a <code>Notation</code>.
185 public static final short NOTATION_NODE = 12;
188 * The name of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
190 public String getNodeName();
193 * The value of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
194 * When it is defined to be <code>null</code>, setting it has no effect,
195 * including if the node is read-only.
196 * @exception DOMException
197 * DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than
198 * fit in a <code>DOMString</code> variable on the implementation
201 public String getNodeValue()
204 * The value of this node, depending on its type; see the table above.
205 * When it is defined to be <code>null</code>, setting it has no effect,
206 * including if the node is read-only.
207 * @exception DOMException
208 * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly and if
209 * it is not defined to be <code>null</code>.
211 public void setNodeValue(String nodeValue)
215 * A code representing the type of the underlying object, as defined above.
217 public short getNodeType();
220 * The parent of this node. All nodes, except <code>Attr</code>,
221 * <code>Document</code>, <code>DocumentFragment</code>,
222 * <code>Entity</code>, and <code>Notation</code> may have a parent.
223 * However, if a node has just been created and not yet added to the
224 * tree, or if it has been removed from the tree, this is
227 public Node getParentNode();
230 * A <code>NodeList</code> that contains all children of this node. If
231 * there are no children, this is a <code>NodeList</code> containing no
234 public NodeList getChildNodes();
237 * The first child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns
240 public Node getFirstChild();
243 * The last child of this node. If there is no such node, this returns
246 public Node getLastChild();
249 * The node immediately preceding this node. If there is no such node,
250 * this returns <code>null</code>.
252 public Node getPreviousSibling();
255 * The node immediately following this node. If there is no such node,
256 * this returns <code>null</code>.
258 public Node getNextSibling();
261 * A <code>NamedNodeMap</code> containing the attributes of this node (if
262 * it is an <code>Element</code>) or <code>null</code> otherwise.
264 public NamedNodeMap getAttributes();
267 * The <code>Document</code> object associated with this node. This is
268 * also the <code>Document</code> object used to create new nodes. When
269 * this node is a <code>Document</code> or a <code>DocumentType</code>
270 * which is not used with any <code>Document</code> yet, this is
272 * @version DOM Level 2
274 public Document getOwnerDocument();
277 * Inserts the node <code>newChild</code> before the existing child node
278 * <code>refChild</code>. If <code>refChild</code> is <code>null</code>,
279 * insert <code>newChild</code> at the end of the list of children.
280 * <br>If <code>newChild</code> is a <code>DocumentFragment</code> object,
281 * all of its children are inserted, in the same order, before
282 * <code>refChild</code>. If the <code>newChild</code> is already in the
283 * tree, it is first removed.
284 * <p ><b>Note:</b> Inserting a node before itself is implementation
286 * @param newChild The node to insert.
287 * @param refChild The reference node, i.e., the node before which the
288 * new node must be inserted.
289 * @return The node being inserted.
290 * @exception DOMException
291 * HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
292 * allow children of the type of the <code>newChild</code> node, or if
293 * the node to insert is one of this node's ancestors or this node
294 * itself, or if this node is of type <code>Document</code> and the
295 * DOM application attempts to insert a second
296 * <code>DocumentType</code> or <code>Element</code> node.
297 * <br>WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>newChild</code> was created
298 * from a different document than the one that created this node.
299 * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly or
300 * if the parent of the node being inserted is readonly.
301 * <br>NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if <code>refChild</code> is not a child of
303 * <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: if this node is of type <code>Document</code>,
304 * this exception might be raised if the DOM implementation doesn't
305 * support the insertion of a <code>DocumentType</code> or
306 * <code>Element</code> node.
307 * @version DOM Level 3
309 public Node insertBefore(Node newChild,
314 * Replaces the child node <code>oldChild</code> with <code>newChild</code>
315 * in the list of children, and returns the <code>oldChild</code> node.
316 * <br>If <code>newChild</code> is a <code>DocumentFragment</code> object,
317 * <code>oldChild</code> is replaced by all of the
318 * <code>DocumentFragment</code> children, which are inserted in the
319 * same order. If the <code>newChild</code> is already in the tree, it
321 * <p ><b>Note:</b> Replacing a node with itself is implementation
323 * @param newChild The new node to put in the child list.
324 * @param oldChild The node being replaced in the list.
325 * @return The node replaced.
326 * @exception DOMException
327 * HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
328 * allow children of the type of the <code>newChild</code> node, or if
329 * the node to put in is one of this node's ancestors or this node
330 * itself, or if this node is of type <code>Document</code> and the
331 * result of the replacement operation would add a second
332 * <code>DocumentType</code> or <code>Element</code> on the
333 * <code>Document</code> node.
334 * <br>WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>newChild</code> was created
335 * from a different document than the one that created this node.
336 * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node or the parent of
337 * the new node is readonly.
338 * <br>NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if <code>oldChild</code> is not a child of
340 * <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: if this node is of type <code>Document</code>,
341 * this exception might be raised if the DOM implementation doesn't
342 * support the replacement of the <code>DocumentType</code> child or
343 * <code>Element</code> child.
344 * @version DOM Level 3
346 public Node replaceChild(Node newChild,
351 * Removes the child node indicated by <code>oldChild</code> from the list
352 * of children, and returns it.
353 * @param oldChild The node being removed.
354 * @return The node removed.
355 * @exception DOMException
356 * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.
357 * <br>NOT_FOUND_ERR: Raised if <code>oldChild</code> is not a child of
359 * <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: if this node is of type <code>Document</code>,
360 * this exception might be raised if the DOM implementation doesn't
361 * support the removal of the <code>DocumentType</code> child or the
362 * <code>Element</code> child.
363 * @version DOM Level 3
365 public Node removeChild(Node oldChild)
369 * Adds the node <code>newChild</code> to the end of the list of children
370 * of this node. If the <code>newChild</code> is already in the tree, it
372 * @param newChild The node to add.If it is a
373 * <code>DocumentFragment</code> object, the entire contents of the
374 * document fragment are moved into the child list of this node
375 * @return The node added.
376 * @exception DOMException
377 * HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if this node is of a type that does not
378 * allow children of the type of the <code>newChild</code> node, or if
379 * the node to append is one of this node's ancestors or this node
380 * itself, or if this node is of type <code>Document</code> and the
381 * DOM application attempts to append a second
382 * <code>DocumentType</code> or <code>Element</code> node.
383 * <br>WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>newChild</code> was created
384 * from a different document than the one that created this node.
385 * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly or
386 * if the previous parent of the node being inserted is readonly.
387 * <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: if the <code>newChild</code> node is a child
388 * of the <code>Document</code> node, this exception might be raised
389 * if the DOM implementation doesn't support the removal of the
390 * <code>DocumentType</code> child or <code>Element</code> child.
391 * @version DOM Level 3
393 public Node appendChild(Node newChild)
397 * Returns whether this node has any children.
398 * @return Returns <code>true</code> if this node has any children,
399 * <code>false</code> otherwise.
401 public boolean hasChildNodes();
404 * Returns a duplicate of this node, i.e., serves as a generic copy
405 * constructor for nodes. The duplicate node has no parent (
406 * <code>parentNode</code> is <code>null</code>) and no user data. User
407 * data associated to the imported node is not carried over. However, if
408 * any <code>UserDataHandlers</code> has been specified along with the
409 * associated data these handlers will be called with the appropriate
410 * parameters before this method returns.
411 * <br>Cloning an <code>Element</code> copies all attributes and their
412 * values, including those generated by the XML processor to represent
413 * defaulted attributes, but this method does not copy any children it
414 * contains unless it is a deep clone. This includes text contained in
415 * an the <code>Element</code> since the text is contained in a child
416 * <code>Text</code> node. Cloning an <code>Attr</code> directly, as
417 * opposed to be cloned as part of an <code>Element</code> cloning
418 * operation, returns a specified attribute (<code>specified</code> is
419 * <code>true</code>). Cloning an <code>Attr</code> always clones its
420 * children, since they represent its value, no matter whether this is a
421 * deep clone or not. Cloning an <code>EntityReference</code>
422 * automatically constructs its subtree if a corresponding
423 * <code>Entity</code> is available, no matter whether this is a deep
424 * clone or not. Cloning any other type of node simply returns a copy of
426 * <br>Note that cloning an immutable subtree results in a mutable copy,
427 * but the children of an <code>EntityReference</code> clone are readonly
428 * . In addition, clones of unspecified <code>Attr</code> nodes are
429 * specified. And, cloning <code>Document</code>,
430 * <code>DocumentType</code>, <code>Entity</code>, and
431 * <code>Notation</code> nodes is implementation dependent.
432 * @param deep If <code>true</code>, recursively clone the subtree under
433 * the specified node; if <code>false</code>, clone only the node
434 * itself (and its attributes, if it is an <code>Element</code>).
435 * @return The duplicate node.
437 public Node cloneNode(boolean deep);
440 * Puts all <code>Text</code> nodes in the full depth of the sub-tree
441 * underneath this <code>Node</code>, including attribute nodes, into a
442 * "normal" form where only structure (e.g., elements, comments,
443 * processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references)
444 * separates <code>Text</code> nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent
445 * <code>Text</code> nodes nor empty <code>Text</code> nodes. This can
446 * be used to ensure that the DOM view of a document is the same as if
447 * it were saved and re-loaded, and is useful when operations (such as
448 * XPointer [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-xptr-framework-20030325/'>XPointer</a>]
449 * lookups) that depend on a particular document tree structure are to
450 * be used. If the parameter "normalize-characters" of the
451 * <code>DOMConfiguration</code> object attached to the
452 * <code>Node.ownerDocument</code> is <code>true</code>, this method
453 * will also fully normalize the characters of the <code>Text</code>
455 * <p ><b>Note:</b> In cases where the document contains
456 * <code>CDATASections</code>, the normalize operation alone may not be
457 * sufficient, since XPointers do not differentiate between
458 * <code>Text</code> nodes and <code>CDATASection</code> nodes.
459 * @version DOM Level 3
461 public void normalize();
464 * Tests whether the DOM implementation implements a specific feature and
465 * that feature is supported by this node, as specified in .
466 * @param feature The name of the feature to test.
467 * @param version This is the version number of the feature to test.
468 * @return Returns <code>true</code> if the specified feature is
469 * supported on this node, <code>false</code> otherwise.
472 public boolean isSupported(String feature,
476 * The namespace URI of this node, or <code>null</code> if it is
477 * unspecified (see ).
478 * <br>This is not a computed value that is the result of a namespace
479 * lookup based on an examination of the namespace declarations in
480 * scope. It is merely the namespace URI given at creation time.
481 * <br>For nodes of any type other than <code>ELEMENT_NODE</code> and
482 * <code>ATTRIBUTE_NODE</code> and nodes created with a DOM Level 1
483 * method, such as <code>Document.createElement()</code>, this is always
485 * <p ><b>Note:</b> Per the <em>Namespaces in XML</em> Specification [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/'>XML Namespaces</a>]
486 * an attribute does not inherit its namespace from the element it is
487 * attached to. If an attribute is not explicitly given a namespace, it
488 * simply has no namespace.
491 public String getNamespaceURI();
494 * The namespace prefix of this node, or <code>null</code> if it is
495 * unspecified. When it is defined to be <code>null</code>, setting it
496 * has no effect, including if the node is read-only.
497 * <br>Note that setting this attribute, when permitted, changes the
498 * <code>nodeName</code> attribute, which holds the qualified name, as
499 * well as the <code>tagName</code> and <code>name</code> attributes of
500 * the <code>Element</code> and <code>Attr</code> interfaces, when
502 * <br>Setting the prefix to <code>null</code> makes it unspecified,
503 * setting it to an empty string is implementation dependent.
504 * <br>Note also that changing the prefix of an attribute that is known to
505 * have a default value, does not make a new attribute with the default
506 * value and the original prefix appear, since the
507 * <code>namespaceURI</code> and <code>localName</code> do not change.
508 * <br>For nodes of any type other than <code>ELEMENT_NODE</code> and
509 * <code>ATTRIBUTE_NODE</code> and nodes created with a DOM Level 1
510 * method, such as <code>createElement</code> from the
511 * <code>Document</code> interface, this is always <code>null</code>.
514 public String getPrefix();
516 * The namespace prefix of this node, or <code>null</code> if it is
517 * unspecified. When it is defined to be <code>null</code>, setting it
518 * has no effect, including if the node is read-only.
519 * <br>Note that setting this attribute, when permitted, changes the
520 * <code>nodeName</code> attribute, which holds the qualified name, as
521 * well as the <code>tagName</code> and <code>name</code> attributes of
522 * the <code>Element</code> and <code>Attr</code> interfaces, when
524 * <br>Setting the prefix to <code>null</code> makes it unspecified,
525 * setting it to an empty string is implementation dependent.
526 * <br>Note also that changing the prefix of an attribute that is known to
527 * have a default value, does not make a new attribute with the default
528 * value and the original prefix appear, since the
529 * <code>namespaceURI</code> and <code>localName</code> do not change.
530 * <br>For nodes of any type other than <code>ELEMENT_NODE</code> and
531 * <code>ATTRIBUTE_NODE</code> and nodes created with a DOM Level 1
532 * method, such as <code>createElement</code> from the
533 * <code>Document</code> interface, this is always <code>null</code>.
534 * @exception DOMException
535 * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified prefix contains an
536 * illegal character according to the XML version in use specified in
537 * the <code>Document.xmlVersion</code> attribute.
538 * <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.
539 * <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the specified <code>prefix</code> is
540 * malformed per the Namespaces in XML specification, if the
541 * <code>namespaceURI</code> of this node is <code>null</code>, if the
542 * specified prefix is "xml" and the <code>namespaceURI</code> of this
543 * node is different from "<a href='http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace'>
544 * http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace</a>", if this node is an attribute and the specified prefix is "xmlns" and
545 * the <code>namespaceURI</code> of this node is different from "<a href='http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/'>http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/</a>", or if this node is an attribute and the <code>qualifiedName</code> of
546 * this node is "xmlns" [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/'>XML Namespaces</a>]
550 public void setPrefix(String prefix)
554 * Returns the local part of the qualified name of this node.
555 * <br>For nodes of any type other than <code>ELEMENT_NODE</code> and
556 * <code>ATTRIBUTE_NODE</code> and nodes created with a DOM Level 1
557 * method, such as <code>Document.createElement()</code>, this is always
561 public String getLocalName();
564 * Returns whether this node (if it is an element) has any attributes.
565 * @return Returns <code>true</code> if this node has any attributes,
566 * <code>false</code> otherwise.
569 public boolean hasAttributes();
572 * The absolute base URI of this node or <code>null</code> if the
573 * implementation wasn't able to obtain an absolute URI. This value is
574 * computed as described in . However, when the <code>Document</code>
575 * supports the feature "HTML" [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109'>DOM Level 2 HTML</a>]
576 * , the base URI is computed using first the value of the href
577 * attribute of the HTML BASE element if any, and the value of the
578 * <code>documentURI</code> attribute from the <code>Document</code>
579 * interface otherwise.
582 public String getBaseURI();
586 * The two nodes are disconnected. Order between disconnected nodes is
587 * always implementation-specific.
589 public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED = 0x01;
591 * The second node precedes the reference node.
593 public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING = 0x02;
595 * The node follows the reference node.
597 public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING = 0x04;
599 * The node contains the reference node. A node which contains is always
602 public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS = 0x08;
604 * The node is contained by the reference node. A node which is contained
605 * is always following, too.
607 public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY = 0x10;
609 * The determination of preceding versus following is
610 * implementation-specific.
612 public static final short DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC = 0x20;
615 * Compares the reference node, i.e. the node on which this method is
616 * being called, with a node, i.e. the one passed as a parameter, with
617 * regard to their position in the document and according to the
619 * @param other The node to compare against the reference node.
620 * @return Returns how the node is positioned relatively to the reference
622 * @exception DOMException
623 * NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: when the compared nodes are from different DOM
624 * implementations that do not coordinate to return consistent
625 * implementation-specific results.
628 public short compareDocumentPosition(Node other)
632 * This attribute returns the text content of this node and its
633 * descendants. When it is defined to be <code>null</code>, setting it
634 * has no effect. On setting, any possible children this node may have
635 * are removed and, if it the new string is not empty or
636 * <code>null</code>, replaced by a single <code>Text</code> node
637 * containing the string this attribute is set to.
638 * <br> On getting, no serialization is performed, the returned string
639 * does not contain any markup. No whitespace normalization is performed
640 * and the returned string does not contain the white spaces in element
641 * content (see the attribute
642 * <code>Text.isElementContentWhitespace</code>). Similarly, on setting,
643 * no parsing is performed either, the input string is taken as pure
645 * <br>The string returned is made of the text content of this node
646 * depending on its type, as defined below:
647 * <table border='1' cellpadding='3'>
653 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
654 * ELEMENT_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE,
655 * DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE</td>
656 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>concatenation of the <code>textContent</code>
657 * attribute value of every child node, excluding COMMENT_NODE and
658 * PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE nodes. This is the empty string if the
659 * node has no children.</td>
662 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE,
663 * PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE</td>
664 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>nodeValue</code></td>
667 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>DOCUMENT_NODE,
668 * DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE</td>
669 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><em>null</em></td>
672 * @exception DOMException
673 * DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised when it would return more characters than
674 * fit in a <code>DOMString</code> variable on the implementation
678 public String getTextContent()
681 * This attribute returns the text content of this node and its
682 * descendants. When it is defined to be <code>null</code>, setting it
683 * has no effect. On setting, any possible children this node may have
684 * are removed and, if it the new string is not empty or
685 * <code>null</code>, replaced by a single <code>Text</code> node
686 * containing the string this attribute is set to.
687 * <br> On getting, no serialization is performed, the returned string
688 * does not contain any markup. No whitespace normalization is performed
689 * and the returned string does not contain the white spaces in element
690 * content (see the attribute
691 * <code>Text.isElementContentWhitespace</code>). Similarly, on setting,
692 * no parsing is performed either, the input string is taken as pure
694 * <br>The string returned is made of the text content of this node
695 * depending on its type, as defined below:
696 * <table border='1' cellpadding='3'>
702 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>
703 * ELEMENT_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE,
704 * DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE</td>
705 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>concatenation of the <code>textContent</code>
706 * attribute value of every child node, excluding COMMENT_NODE and
707 * PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE nodes. This is the empty string if the
708 * node has no children.</td>
711 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>TEXT_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE,
712 * PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE</td>
713 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><code>nodeValue</code></td>
716 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'>DOCUMENT_NODE,
717 * DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE</td>
718 * <td valign='top' rowspan='1' colspan='1'><em>null</em></td>
721 * @exception DOMException
722 * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
725 public void setTextContent(String textContent)
729 * Returns whether this node is the same node as the given one.
730 * <br>This method provides a way to determine whether two
731 * <code>Node</code> references returned by the implementation reference
732 * the same object. When two <code>Node</code> references are references
733 * to the same object, even if through a proxy, the references may be
734 * used completely interchangeably, such that all attributes have the
735 * same values and calling the same DOM method on either reference
736 * always has exactly the same effect.
737 * @param other The node to test against.
738 * @return Returns <code>true</code> if the nodes are the same,
739 * <code>false</code> otherwise.
742 public boolean isSameNode(Node other);
745 * Look up the prefix associated to the given namespace URI, starting from
746 * this node. The default namespace declarations are ignored by this
748 * <br>See for details on the algorithm used by this method.
749 * @param namespaceURI The namespace URI to look for.
750 * @return Returns an associated namespace prefix if found or
751 * <code>null</code> if none is found. If more than one prefix are
752 * associated to the namespace prefix, the returned namespace prefix
753 * is implementation dependent.
756 public String lookupPrefix(String namespaceURI);
759 * This method checks if the specified <code>namespaceURI</code> is the
760 * default namespace or not.
761 * @param namespaceURI The namespace URI to look for.
762 * @return Returns <code>true</code> if the specified
763 * <code>namespaceURI</code> is the default namespace,
764 * <code>false</code> otherwise.
767 public boolean isDefaultNamespace(String namespaceURI);
770 * Look up the namespace URI associated to the given prefix, starting from
772 * <br>See for details on the algorithm used by this method.
773 * @param prefix The prefix to look for. If this parameter is
774 * <code>null</code>, the method will return the default namespace URI
776 * @return Returns the associated namespace URI or <code>null</code> if
780 public String lookupNamespaceURI(String prefix);
783 * Tests whether two nodes are equal.
784 * <br>This method tests for equality of nodes, not sameness (i.e.,
785 * whether the two nodes are references to the same object) which can be
786 * tested with <code>Node.isSameNode()</code>. All nodes that are the
787 * same will also be equal, though the reverse may not be true.
788 * <br>Two nodes are equal if and only if the following conditions are
791 * <li>The two nodes are of the same type.
793 * <li>The following string
794 * attributes are equal: <code>nodeName</code>, <code>localName</code>,
795 * <code>namespaceURI</code>, <code>prefix</code>, <code>nodeValue</code>
796 * . This is: they are both <code>null</code>, or they have the same
797 * length and are character for character identical.
800 * <code>attributes</code> <code>NamedNodeMaps</code> are equal. This
801 * is: they are both <code>null</code>, or they have the same length and
802 * for each node that exists in one map there is a node that exists in
803 * the other map and is equal, although not necessarily at the same
806 * <li>The <code>childNodes</code> <code>NodeLists</code> are equal.
807 * This is: they are both <code>null</code>, or they have the same
808 * length and contain equal nodes at the same index. Note that
809 * normalization can affect equality; to avoid this, nodes should be
810 * normalized before being compared.
813 * <br>For two <code>DocumentType</code> nodes to be equal, the following
814 * conditions must also be satisfied:
816 * <li>The following string attributes
817 * are equal: <code>publicId</code>, <code>systemId</code>,
818 * <code>internalSubset</code>.
820 * <li>The <code>entities</code>
821 * <code>NamedNodeMaps</code> are equal.
823 * <li>The <code>notations</code>
824 * <code>NamedNodeMaps</code> are equal.
827 * <br>On the other hand, the following do not affect equality: the
828 * <code>ownerDocument</code>, <code>baseURI</code>, and
829 * <code>parentNode</code> attributes, the <code>specified</code>
830 * attribute for <code>Attr</code> nodes, the <code>schemaTypeInfo</code>
831 * attribute for <code>Attr</code> and <code>Element</code> nodes, the
832 * <code>Text.isElementContentWhitespace</code> attribute for
833 * <code>Text</code> nodes, as well as any user data or event listeners
834 * registered on the nodes.
835 * <p ><b>Note:</b> As a general rule, anything not mentioned in the
836 * description above is not significant in consideration of equality
837 * checking. Note that future versions of this specification may take
838 * into account more attributes and implementations conform to this
839 * specification are expected to be updated accordingly.
840 * @param arg The node to compare equality with.
841 * @return Returns <code>true</code> if the nodes are equal,
842 * <code>false</code> otherwise.
845 public boolean isEqualNode(Node arg);
848 * This method returns a specialized object which implements the
849 * specialized APIs of the specified feature and version, as specified
850 * in . The specialized object may also be obtained by using
851 * binding-specific casting methods but is not necessarily expected to,
852 * as discussed in . This method also allow the implementation to
853 * provide specialized objects which do not support the <code>Node</code>
855 * @param feature The name of the feature requested. Note that any plus
856 * sign "+" prepended to the name of the feature will be ignored since
857 * it is not significant in the context of this method.
858 * @param version This is the version number of the feature to test.
859 * @return Returns an object which implements the specialized APIs of
860 * the specified feature and version, if any, or <code>null</code> if
861 * there is no object which implements interfaces associated with that
862 * feature. If the <code>DOMObject</code> returned by this method
863 * implements the <code>Node</code> interface, it must delegate to the
864 * primary core <code>Node</code> and not return results inconsistent
865 * with the primary core <code>Node</code> such as attributes,
869 public Object getFeature(String feature,
873 * Associate an object to a key on this node. The object can later be
874 * retrieved from this node by calling <code>getUserData</code> with the
876 * @param key The key to associate the object to.
877 * @param data The object to associate to the given key, or
878 * <code>null</code> to remove any existing association to that key.
879 * @param handler The handler to associate to that key, or
881 * @return Returns the <code>DOMUserData</code> previously associated to
882 * the given key on this node, or <code>null</code> if there was none.
885 public Object setUserData(String key,
887 UserDataHandler handler);
890 * Retrieves the object associated to a key on a this node. The object
891 * must first have been set to this node by calling
892 * <code>setUserData</code> with the same key.
893 * @param key The key the object is associated to.
894 * @return Returns the <code>DOMUserData</code> associated to the given
895 * key on this node, or <code>null</code> if there was none.
898 public Object getUserData(String key);