1. /*

  2.  * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,

  3.  *

  4.  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for

  5.  * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This

  6.  * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that

  7.  * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied

  8.  * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

  9.  *

  10.  * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231

  11.  */

  12. 

  13. package org.w3c.dom;

  14. 

  15. /**

  16.  *  <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> is a callback interface that the DOM 

  17.  * implementation can call when reporting errors that happens while 

  18.  * processing XML data, or when doing some other processing (e.g. validating 

  19.  * a document). A <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> object can be attached to a 

  20.  * <code>Document</code> using the "error-handler" on the 

  21.  * <code>DOMConfiguration</code> interface. If more than one error needs to 

  22.  * be reported during an operation, the sequence and numbers of the errors 

  23.  * passed to the error handler are implementation dependent. 

  24.  * <p> The application that is using the DOM implementation is expected to 

  25.  * implement this interface. 

  26.  * <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>.

  27.  * @since DOM Level 3

  28.  */

  29. public interface DOMErrorHandler {

  30.     /**

  31.      * This method is called on the error handler when an error occurs.

  32.      * <br> If an exception is thrown from this method, it is considered to be 

  33.      * equivalent of returning <code>true</code>. 

  34.      * @param error  The error object that describes the error. This object 

  35.      *   may be reused by the DOM implementation across multiple calls to 

  36.      *   the <code>handleError</code> method. 

  37.      * @return  If the <code>handleError</code> method returns 

  38.      *   <code>false</code>, the DOM implementation should stop the current 

  39.      *   processing when possible. If the method returns <code>true</code>, 

  40.      *   the processing may continue depending on 

  41.      *   <code>DOMError.severity</code>. 

  42.      */

  43.     public boolean handleError(DOMError error);

  44. 

  45. }