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 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
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package org.w3c.dom;

/**
 * The <code>Text</code> interface inherits from <code>CharacterData</code> 
 * and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an 
 * <code>Element</code> or <code>Attr</code>. If there is no markup inside 
 * an element's content, the text is contained in a single object 
 * implementing the <code>Text</code> interface that is the only child of 
 * the element. If there is markup, it is parsed into the information items 
 * (elements, comments, etc.) and <code>Text</code> nodes that form the list 
 * of children of the element.
 * <p>When a document is first made available via the DOM, there is only one 
 * <code>Text</code> node for each block of text. Users may create adjacent 
 * <code>Text</code> nodes that represent the contents of a given element 
 * without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way 
 * to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, so they 
 * will not (in general) persist between DOM editing sessions. The 
 * <code>normalize()</code> method on <code>Node</code> merges any such 
 * adjacent <code>Text</code> objects into a single node for each block of 
 * text.
 * <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 Text extends CharacterData {
    /**
     * Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified <code>offset</code>, 
     * keeping both in the tree as siblings. After being split, this node 
     * will contain all the content up to the <code>offset</code> point. A 
     * new node of the same type, which contains all the content at and 
     * after the <code>offset</code> point, is returned. If the original 
     * node had a parent node, the new node is inserted as the next sibling 
     * of the original node. When the <code>offset</code> is equal to the 
     * length of this node, the new node has no data.
     * @param offset The 16-bit unit offset at which to split, starting from 
     *   <code>0</code>.
     * @return The new node, of the same type as this node.
     * @exception DOMException
     *   INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater 
     *   than the number of 16-bit units in <code>data</code>.
     *   <br>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly.
     */
    public Text splitText(int offset)
                          throws DOMException;

}