- /*
- * 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;
-
- /**
- * 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/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification</a>.
- */
- public interface DOMImplementation {
- /**
- * Test if the DOM implementation implements a specific feature.
- * @param feature The name of the feature to test (case-insensitive). The
- * values used by DOM features are defined throughout the DOM Level 2
- * specifications and listed in the section. The name must be an XML
- * name. To avoid possible conflicts, as a convention, names referring
- * to features defined outside the DOM specification should be made
- * unique.
- * @param version This is the version number of the feature to test. In
- * Level 2, the string can be either "2.0" or "1.0". If the version is
- * not specified, supporting any version of the feature causes the
- * method to return <code>true</code>.
- * @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. It is expected that a
- * future version of the DOM will provide a way for populating a
- * <code>DocumentType</code>.
- * @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
- * contains an illegal character.
- * <br>NAMESPACE_ERR: Raised if the <code>qualifiedName</code> is
- * malformed.
- * <br>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: May be raised by DOM implementations which do
- * not support the <code>"XML"</code> feature, if they choose not to
- * support this method. Other features introduced in the future, by
- * the DOM WG or in extensions defined by other groups, may also
- * demand support for this method; please consult the definition of
- * the feature to see if it requires this method.
- * @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.
- * @param namespaceURI The namespace URI of the document element to
- * create.
- * @param qualifiedName The qualified name of the document element to be
- * created.
- * @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.
- * @exception DOMException
- * INVALID_CHARACTER_ERR: Raised if the specified qualified name
- * contains an illegal character.
- * <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> has a prefix that is "xml" and the
- * <code>namespaceURI</code> is different from "
- * http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" , 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 by DOM implementations which do
- * not support the "XML" feature, if they choose not to support this
- * method. Other features introduced in the future, by the DOM WG or
- * in extensions defined by other groups, may also demand support for
- * this method; please consult the definition of the feature to see if
- * it requires this method.
- * @since DOM Level 2
- */
- public Document createDocument(String namespaceURI,
- String qualifiedName,
- DocumentType doctype)
- throws DOMException;
-
- }