1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
|
/*
* Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
* Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
* Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
* Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed 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.
* See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
*/
package org.w3c.dom;
/**
* <code>EntityReference</code> objects may be inserted into the structure
* model when an entity reference is in the source document, or when the
* user wishes to insert an entity reference. 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
* structure model, instead of providing <code>EntityReference</code>
* objects. If it does provide such objects, then for a given
* <code>EntityReference</code> node, it may be that there is no
* <code>Entity</code> node representing the referenced entity. If such an
* <code>Entity</code> exists, then the subtree of the
* <code>EntityReference</code> node is in general a copy of the
* <code>Entity</code> node subtree. However, this 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.
* <p>As for <code>Entity</code> nodes, <code>EntityReference</code> nodes and
* all their descendants are readonly.
* <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>.
*/
public interface EntityReference extends Node {
}
|
