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This interface represents an entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML
document. Note that this models the entity itself not the entity declaration.
Entity
declaration modeling has been left for a later Level of the
DOM specification.
The nodeName
attribute that is inherited from Node
contains the name of the entity.
An XML processor may choose to completely expand entities before the
structure model is passed to the DOM; in this case there will be no
EntityReference
nodes in the document tree.
XML does not mandate that a non-validating XML processor read and process
entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in external
parameter entities. This means that parsed entities declared in the external
subset need not be expanded by some classes of applications, and that the
replacement value of the entity may not be available. When the replacement
value is available, the corresponding Entity
node's child list
represents the structure of that replacement text. Otherwise, the child list is
empty.
The DOM Level 2 does not support editing Entity
nodes; if a
user wants to make changes to the contents of an Entity
, every
related EntityReference
node has to be replaced in the structure
model by a clone of the Entity
's contents, and then the desired
changes must be made to each of those clones instead. Entity
nodes
and all their descendants are readonly.
An Entity
node does not have any parent.If the entity contains
an unbound namespace prefix, the namespaceURI
of the corresponding
node in the Entity
node subtree is null
. The same is
true for EntityReference
nodes that refer to this entity, when
they are created using the createEntityReference
method of the
Document
interface. The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism
to resolve namespace prefixes.
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 |
Method Summary | |
java.lang.String |
getNotationName()
For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. |
java.lang.String |
getPublicId()
The public identifier associated with the entity, if specified. |
java.lang.String |
getSystemId()
The system identifier associated with the entity, if specified. |
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 |
Method Detail |
public java.lang.String getPublicId()
null
.public java.lang.String getSystemId()
null
.public java.lang.String getNotationName()
null
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