org.w3c.dom
Interface EntityReference
- All Superinterfaces:
- Node
- public interface EntityReference
- extends Node
EntityReference
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 EntityReference
objects. If it
does provide such objects, then for a given
EntityReference
node, it may be that there is no
Entity
node representing the referenced entity. If
such an Entity
exists, then the subtree of the
EntityReference
node is in general a copy of the
Entity
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
EntityReference
node may be bound to different
namespace URIs.
As for Entity
nodes, EntityReference
nodes and all their descendants are readonly.
See also the Document
Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.
Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node |
ATTRIBUTE_NODE,
CDATA_SECTION_NODE,
COMMENT_NODE,
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE,
DOCUMENT_NODE,
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE,
ELEMENT_NODE,
ENTITY_NODE,
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE,
NOTATION_NODE,
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE,
TEXT_NODE |
Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node |
appendChild,
cloneNode,
getAttributes,
getChildNodes,
getFirstChild,
getLastChild,
getLocalName,
getNamespaceURI,
getNextSibling,
getNodeName,
getNodeType,
getNodeValue,
getOwnerDocument,
getParentNode,
getPrefix,
getPreviousSibling,
hasAttributes,
hasChildNodes,
insertBefore,
isSupported, normalize,
removeChild,
replaceChild, setNodeValue,
setPrefix |
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