[W3C] Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification Version 1.0 W3C Working Draft 19 June 2003 This version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-LS-20030619 Latest version: http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-LS Previous version: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-LS-20030226 Editors: Johnny Stenback, Netscape Andy Heninger, IBM (until March 2001) This document is also available in these non-normative formats: XML file, plain text, PostScript file, PDF file, single HTML file, and ZIP file. Copyright ©2003 W3C® (MIT, ERCIM, Keio), All Rights Reserved. W3C liability, trademark, document use and software licensing rules apply. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract This specification defines the Document Object Model Load and Save Level 3, a platform- and language-neutral interface that allows programs and scripts to dynamically load the content of an XML document into a DOM document and serialize a DOM document into an XML document; DOM documents being defined in [DOM Level 2 Core] or newer, and XML documents being defined in [XML 1.0] or newer. Status of this document This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of this document series is maintained at the W3C. This document contains the Document Object Model Level 3 Load and Save specification and is a Last Call Working Draft for review by W3C members and other interested parties. 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Document Object Model Load and Save * Appendix A: IDL Definitions * Appendix B: Java Language Binding * Appendix C: ECMAScript Language Binding * Appendix D: Acknowledgements * Glossary * References * Index 19 June 2003 Expanded Table of Contents * Expanded Table of Contents * W3C Copyright Notices and Licenses o W3C® Document Copyright Notice and License o W3C® Software Copyright Notice and License o W3C® Short Software Notice * 1 Document Object Model Load and Save o 1.1 Overview of the Interfaces o 1.2 Basic types + 1.2.1 The DOMInputStream type + 1.2.2 The DOMOutputStream type + 1.2.3 The DOMReader type + 1.2.4 The DOMWriter type o 1.3 Fundamental interfaces o 1.4 Convenience Interfaces * Appendix A: IDL Definitions * Appendix B: Java Language Binding * Appendix C: ECMAScript Language Binding * Appendix D: Acknowledgements o D.1 Production Systems * Glossary * References o 1 Normative references o 2 Informative references * Index 19 June 2003 W3C Copyright Notices and Licenses Copyright © 2003 World Wide Web Consortium, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). 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Document Object Model Load and Save Editors: Johnny Stenback, Netscape Andy Heninger, IBM (until March 2001) Table of contents * 1.1 Overview of the Interfaces * 1.2 Basic types o 1.2.1 The DOMInputStream type + DOMInputStream o 1.2.2 The DOMOutputStream type + DOMOutputStream o 1.2.3 The DOMReader type + DOMReader o 1.2.4 The DOMWriter type + DOMWriter * 1.3 Fundamental interfaces o DOMImplementationLS, DOMParser, DOMInput, DOMResourceResolver, DOMParserFilter, LSProgressEvent, LSLoadEvent, DOMSerializer, DOMOutput, DOMSerializerFilter * 1.4 Convenience Interfaces o DocumentLS, ElementLS This section defines a set of interfaces for loading and saving document objects as defined in [DOM Level 2 Core] or newer. The functionality specified in this section (the Load and Save functionality) is sufficient to allow software developers and web script authors to load and save XML content inside conforming products. The DOM Load and Save API also allows filtering of XML content using only DOM API calls; access and manipulation of the Document is defined in [DOM Level 2 Core] or newer. The proposal for loading is influenced by the Java APIs for XML Processing [JAXP] and by SAX2 [SAX]. 1.1 Overview of the Interfaces The list of interfaces involved with the Loading and Saving XML documents is: * DOMImplementationLS -- A new DOMImplementation interface that provides the factory methods for creating the objects required for loading and saving. * DOMParser -- A parser interface. * DOMInput -- Encapsulate information about the XML document to be loaded. * DOMResourceResolver -- During loading, provides a way for applications to redirect references to external entities. * DOMParserFilter -- Provide the ability to examine and optionally remove Element nodes as they are being processed during the parsing of a document. * DOMSerializer -- An interface for writing out or serializing DOM documents. * DOMOutput -- Encapsulate information about the XML document to be serialized. * DOMSerializerFilter -- Provide the ability to examine and optionally remove nodes as they are being processed during the serialization of a document. * DocumentLS -- Provides a client or browser style interface for loading and saving. * ElementLS -- Provides a user convenient mechanism by which the children of an element can be serialized to a string, or replaced by the result of parsing a provided string. 1.2 Basic types To ensure interoperability, this specification specifies the following basic types used in various DOM modules. Even though the DOM uses the basic types in the interfaces, bindings may use different types and normative bindings are only given for Java and ECMAScript in this specification. 1.2.1 The DOMInputStream type This type is used to represent a sequence of input bytes. Type Definition DOMInputStream A DOMInputStream represents a reference to a byte stream source of an XML input. IDL Definition typedef Object DOMInputStream; Note: For Java, DOMInputStream is bound to the java.io.InputStream type. For ECMAScript, DOMInputStream is bound to Object. 1.2.2 The DOMOutputStream type This type is used to represent a sequence of output bytes. Type Definition DOMOutputStream A DOMOutputStream represents a byte stream destination for the XML output. IDL Definition typedef Object DOMOutputStream; Note: For Java, DOMOutputStream is bound to the java.io.OutputStream type. For ECMAScript, DOMOutputStream is bound to Object. 1.2.3 The DOMReader type This type is used to represent a sequence of input characters in 16-bit units. The encoding used for the characters is UTF-16, as defined in [Unicode] and Amendment 1 of [ISO/IEC 10646]). Type Definition DOMReader A DOMReader represents a character stream for the XML input. IDL Definition typedef Object DOMReader; Note: For Java, DOMReader is bound to the java.io.Reader type. For ECMAScript, DOMReader is NOT bound, and therefore as no recommended meaning in ECMAScript. 1.2.4 The DOMWriter type This type is used to represent a sequence of output characters in 16-bit units. The encoding used for the characters is UTF-16, as defined in [Unicode] and Amendment 1 of [ISO/IEC 10646]). Type Definition DOMWriter A DOMWriter represents a character stream for the XML input. IDL Definition typedef Object DOMWriter; Note: For Java, DOMWriter is bound to the java.io.Writer type. For ECMAScript, DOMWriter is NOT bound, and therefore as no recommended meaning in ECMAScript. 1.3 Fundamental interfaces The interface within this section is considered fundamental, and must be fully implemented by all conforming implementations of the DOM Load and Save module. A DOM application may use the hasFeature(feature, version) method of the DOMImplementation interface with parameter values "LS" (or "LS-Async") and "3.0" (respectively) to determine whether or not these interfaces are supported by the implementation. In order to fully support them, an implementation must also support the "Core" feature defined in [DOM Level 2 Core]. A DOM application may use the hasFeature(feature, version) method of the DOMImplementation interface with parameter values "LS-Async" and "3.0" (respectively) to determine whether or not the asynchronous mode is supported by the implementation. In order to fully support the asynchronous mode, an implementation must also support the "LS" feature defined in this section. For additional information about conformance, please see the DOM Level 3 Core specification [DOM Level 3 Core]. Interface DOMImplementationLS DOMImplementationLS contains the factory methods for creating Load and Save objects. The expectation is that an instance of the DOMImplementationLS interface can be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an instance of the DOMImplementation interface or, if the Document supports the feature "Core" version "3.0" defined in [DOM Level 3 Core], by using the method DOMImplementation.getFeature with parameter values "LS" (or "LS-Async") and "3.0" (respectively). IDL Definition interface DOMImplementationLS { // DOMImplementationLSMode const unsigned short MODE_SYNCHRONOUS = 1; const unsigned short MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS = 2; DOMParser createDOMParser(in unsigned short mode, in DOMString schemaType) raises(DOMException); DOMSerializer createDOMSerializer(); DOMInput createDOMInput(); }; Definition group DOMImplementationLSMode Integer parser mode constants. Defined Constants MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS Create an asynchronous DOMParser. MODE_SYNCHRONOUS Create a synchronous DOMParser. Methods createDOMInput Create a new empty input source. Return Value DOMInput The newly created input object. No Parameters No Exceptions createDOMParser Create a new DOMParser. The newly constructed parser may then be configured by means of its DOMConfiguration object, and used to parse documents by means of its parse method. Parameters mode of type unsigned short The mode argument is either MODE_SYNCHRONOUS or MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS, if mode is MODE_SYNCHRONOUS then the DOMParser that is created will operate in synchronous mode, if it's MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS then the DOMParser that is created will operate in asynchronous mode. schemaType of type DOMString An absolute URI representing the type of the schema language used during the load of a Document using the newly created DOMParser. Note that no lexical checking is done on the absolute URI. In order to create a DOMParser for any kind of schema types (i.e. the DOMParser will be free to use any schema found), use the value null. Note: For W3C XML Schema [XML Schema Part 1], applications must use the value "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema". For XML DTD [XML 1.0], applications must use the value "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml". Other Schema languages are outside the scope of the W3C and therefore should recommend an absolute URI in order to use this method. Return Value DOMParser The newly created DOMParser object. This DOMParser is either synchronous or asynchronous depending on the value of the mode argument. Note: By default, the newly created DOMParser does not contain a DOMErrorHandler, i.e. the value of the "error-handler" configuration parameter is null. However, implementations may provide a default error handler at creation time. In that case, the initial value of the "error-handler" configuration parameter on the new created DOMParser contains a reference to the default error handler. Exceptions DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the requested mode or schema type is not supported. createDOMSerializer Create a new DOMSerializer object. Return Value DOMSerializer The newly created DOMSerializer object. Note: By default, the newly created DOMSerializer has no DOMErrorHandler, i.e. the value of the "error-handler" configuration parameter is null. However, implementations may provide a default error handler at creation time. In that case, the initial value of the "error-handler" configuration parameter on the new created DOMSerializer contains a reference to the default error handler. No Parameters No Exceptions Interface DOMParser An interface to an object that is able to build, or augment, a DOM tree from various input sources. DOMParser provides an API for parsing XML and building the corresponding DOM document structure. A DOMParser instance can be obtained by invoking the DOMImplementationLS.createDOMParser() method. As specified in [DOM Level 3 Core], when a document is first made available via the DOMParser: o there is only one Text node for each block of text. The Text nodes are in "normal" form: only structure (e.g. elements, comments, processing instructions, CDATA sections, and entity references) separates Text nodes, i.e., there are neither adjacent nor empty Text nodes. o it is expected that the value and nodeValue attributes of an Attr node initially return the XML 1.0 normalized value. However, if the parameters "validate-if-schema" and "datatype-normalization" are set to true, depending on the attribute normalization used, the attribute values may differ from the ones obtained by the XML 1.0 attribute normalization. If the parameters data-type-normalization is set to false, the XML 1.0 attribute normalization is guaranteed to occur, and if the attributes list does not contain namespace declarations, the attributes attribute on Element node represents the property [attributes] defined in [XML Information set]. Asynchronous DOMParser objects are expected to also implement the events::EventTarget interface so that event listeners can be registered on asynchronous DOMParser objects. Events supported by asynchronous DOMParser objects are: load The DOMParser finishes to load the document. See also the definition of the LSLoadEvent interface. progress The DOMParser signals a progress as a document is parsed. See also the definition of the LSProgressEvent interface. Note: All events defined in this specification use the namespace URI "http://www.w3.org/2002/DOMLS". While parsing an input source, errors are reported to the application through the error handler (DOMParser.config's "error-handler" parameter). This specification does in no way try to define all possible errors that can occur while parsing XML, or any other markup, but some common error cases are defined. The types (DOMError.type) of errors and warnings defined by this specification are: "unsupported-media-type" [fatal] Raised if the configuration parameter "supported-media-types-only" is set to true and an unsupported media type is encountered. "unsupported-encoding" [fatal] Raised if an unsupported encoding is encountered. "doctype-not-allowed" [fatal] Raised if the configuration parameter "disallow-doctype" is set to true and a doctype is encountered. "unknown-character-denormalization" [fatal] Raised if the configuration parameter "ignore-unknown-character-denormalizations" is set to false and a character is encountered for which the processor cannot determine the normalization properties. "unbound-namespace-in-entity" [warning] Raised if the configuration parameter "entities" is set to true and an unbound namespace prefix is encounterd in an entity declaration. "pi-base-uri-not-preserved" [warning] Raised if a processing instruction is encoutered in a location where the base URI of the processing instruction can not be preserved. One example of a case where this warning will be raised is if the configuration parameter "entities" is set to false and the following XML file is parsed: &e; And subdir/myentity.ent looks like this: In addition to raising the defined errors and warnings, implementations are expected to raise implementation specific errors and warnings for any other error and warning cases such as IO errors (file not found, permission denied,...), XML well-formedness errors, and so on. IDL Definition interface DOMParser { readonly attribute DOMConfiguration config; attribute DOMParserFilter filter; readonly attribute boolean async; readonly attribute boolean busy; Document parse(in DOMInput is) raises(DOMException); Document parseURI(in DOMString uri) raises(DOMException); // ACTION_TYPES const unsigned short ACTION_APPEND_AS_CHILDREN = 1; const unsigned short ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN = 2; const unsigned short ACTION_INSERT_BEFORE = 3; const unsigned short ACTION_INSERT_AFTER = 4; const unsigned short ACTION_REPLACE = 5; Node parseWithContext(in DOMInput input, in Node context, in unsigned short action) raises(DOMException); void abort(); }; Definition group ACTION_TYPES A set of possible actions for the parseWithContext method. Defined Constants ACTION_APPEND_AS_CHILDREN Append the result of the parse operation as children of the context node. For this action to work, the context node must be an Element or a DocumentFragment. ACTION_INSERT_AFTER Insert the result of the parse operation as the immediately following sibling of the context node. For this action to work the context node's parent must be an Element or a DocumentFragment. ACTION_INSERT_BEFORE Insert the result of the parse operation as the immediately preceding sibling of the context node. For this action to work the context node's parent must be an Element or a DocumentFragment. ACTION_REPLACE Replace the context node with the result of the parse operation. For this action to work, the context node must have a parent, and the parent must be an Element or a DocumentFragment. ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN Replace all the children of the context node with the result of the parse operation. For this action to work, the context node must be an Element, a Document, or a DocumentFragment. Attributes async of type boolean, readonly true if the DOMParser is asynchronous, false if it is synchronous. busy of type boolean, readonly true if the DOMParser is currently busy loading a document, otherwise false. config of type DOMConfiguration, readonly The DOMConfiguration object used when parsing an input source. This DOMConfiguration is specific to the parse operation and no parameter values from this DOMConfiguration object are passed automatically to the DOMConfiguration object on the Document that is created, or used, by the parse operation. The DOM application is responsible for passing any needed parameter values from this DOMConfiguration object to the DOMConfiguration object referenced by the Document object. In addition to the parameters recognized in [DOM Level 3 Core], the DOMConfiguration objects for DOMParser adds or modifies the following parameters: "charset-overrides-xml-encoding" true [required] (default) If a higher level protocol such as HTTP [IETF RFC 2616] provides an indication of the character encoding of the input stream being processed, that will override any encoding specified in the XML declaration or the Text declaration (see also section 4.3.3, "Character Encoding in Entities", in [XML 1.0]). Explicitly setting an encoding in the DOMInput overrides any encoding from the protocol. false [required] The parser ignores any character set encoding information from higher-level protocols. "disallow-doctype" true [optional] Throw a fatal "doctype-not-allowed" error if a doctype node is found while parsing the document. This is useful when dealing with things like SOAP envelopes where doctype nodes are not allowed. false [required] (default) Allow doctype nodes in the document. "ignore-unknown-character-denormalizations" true [required] (default) If, while verifying full normalization when [XML 1.1] is supported, a processor encounters characters for which it cannot determine the normalization properties, then the processor will ignore any possible denormalizations caused by these characters. This parameter is ignored for [XML 1.0]. false [optional] Report an fatal "unknown-character-denormalization" error if a character is encountered for which the processor cannot determine the normalization properties. "infoset" See the definition of DOMConfiguration for a description of this parameter. Unlike in [DOM Level 3 Core], this parameter will default to true for DOMParser. "namespaces" true [required] (default) Perform the namespace processing as defined in [XML Namespaces]. false [optional] Do not perform the namespace processing. "supported-media-types-only" true [optional] Check that the media type of the parsed resource is a supported media type. If an unsupported media type is encountered, a fatal error of type "unsupported-media-type" will be raised. The media types defined in [IETF RFC 3023] must always be accepted. false [required] (default) Accept any media type. The parameter "well-formed" cannot be set to false. filter of type DOMParserFilter When a filter is provided, the implementation will call out to the filter as it is constructing the DOM tree structure. The filter can choose to remove elements from the document being constructed, or to terminate the parsing early. The filter is invoked after the operations requested by the DOMConfiguration parameters have been applied. For example, if "validate" is set to true, the validation is done before invoking the filter. Methods abort Abort the loading of the document that is currently being loaded by the DOMParser. If the DOMParser is currently not busy, a call to this method does nothing. No Parameters No Return Value No Exceptions parse Parse an XML document from a resource identified by a DOMInput. Parameters is of type DOMInput The DOMInput from which the source of the document is to be read. Return Value Document If the DOMParser is a synchronous DOMParser, the newly created and populated Document is returned. If the DOMParser is asynchronous, null is returned since the document object may not yet be constructed when this method returns. Exceptions DOMException INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if the DOMParser's DOMParser.busy attribute is true. parseURI Parse an XML document from a location identified by a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396]. If the URI contains a fragment identifier (see section 4.1 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the behavior is not defined by this specification, future versions of this specification may define the behavior. Parameters uri of type DOMString The location of the XML document to be read. Return Value Document If the DOMParser is a synchronous DOMParser, the newly created and populated Document is returned. If the DOMParser is asynchronous, null is returned since the document object may not yet be constructed when this method returns. Exceptions DOMException INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if the DOMParser.busy attribute is true. parseWithContext Parse an XML fragment from a resource identified by a DOMInput and insert the content into an existing document at the position specified with the context and action arguments. When parsing the input stream, the context node is used for resolving unbound namespace prefixes. The context node's ownerDocument node (or the node itself if the node of type DOCUMENT_NODE) is used to resolve default attributes and entity references. As the new data is inserted into the document, at least one mutation event is fired per new immediate child or sibling of the context node. If the context node is a Document node and the action is ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN, then the document that is passed as the context node will be changed such that it's xmlEncoding, documentURI, xmlVersion, actualEncoding, xmlStandalone, and all other such attributes are set to what they would be set to if the input source was parsed using DOMParser.parse(). If the DOMParser is asynchronous then the insertion of the resulting DOM structure is atomic, e.g. the whole structure is inserted only once the whole input stream is completely parsed without errors. If an error occurs while parsing, the caller is notified through the ErrorHandler instance associated with the "error-handler" parameter of the DOMConfiguration. When calling parseWithContext, the values of the following configuration parameters will be ignored and their default values will always be used instead: "validate", "validate-if-schema", and "whitespace-in-element-content". Parameters input of type DOMInput The DOMInput from which the source document is to be read. The source document must be an XML fragment, i.e. anything except a complete XML document (except in the case where the context node of type DOCUMENT_NODE, and the action is ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN), a DOCTYPE (internal subset), entity declaration(s), notation declaration(s), or XML or text declaration(s). context of type Node The node that is used as the context for the data that is being parsed. This node must be a Document node, a DocumentFragment node, or a node of a type that is allowed as a child of an Element node, e.g. it cannot be an Attribute node. action of type unsigned short This parameter describes which action should be taken between the new set of nodes being inserted and the existing children of the context node. The set of possible actions is defined in ACTION_TYPES above. Return Value Node Return the node that is the result of the parse operation. If the result is more than one top-level node, the first one is returned. Exceptions DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the DOMParser doesn't support this method. NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if the context node is a read only node. INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if the DOMParser.busy attribute is true. Interface DOMInput This interface represents an input source for data. This interface allows an application to encapsulate information about an input source in a single object, which may include a public identifier, a system identifier, a byte stream (possibly with a specified encoding), a base URI, and/or a character stream. The exact definitions of a byte stream and a character stream are binding dependent. The application is expected to provide objects that implement this interface whenever such objects are needed. The application can either provide its own objects that implement this interface, or it can use the generic factory method DOMImplementationLS.createDOMInput() to create objects that implement this interface. The DOMParser will use the DOMInput object to determine how to read data. The DOMParser will look at the different inputs specified in the DOMInput in the following order to know which one to read from, the first one through which data is available will be used: 1. DOMInput.characterStream 2. DOMInput.byteStream 3. DOMInput.stringData 4. DOMInput.systemId 5. DOMInput.publicId DOMInput objects belong to the application. The DOM implementation will never modify them (though it may make copies and modify the copies, if necessary). IDL Definition interface DOMInput { // Depending on the language binding in use, // this attribute may not be available. attribute DOMReader characterStream; attribute DOMInputStream byteStream; attribute DOMString stringData; attribute DOMString systemId; attribute DOMString encoding; attribute DOMString publicId; attribute DOMString baseURI; attribute boolean certified; }; Attributes baseURI of type DOMString The base URI to be used (see section 5.1.4 in [IETF RFC 2396]) for resolving a relative systemId to an absolute URI. If, when used, the base URI is itself a relative URI, an empty string, or null, the behavior is implementation dependent. byteStream of type DOMInputStream An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a stream of bytes. If the application knows the character encoding of the byte stream, it should set the encoding attribute. Setting the encoding in this way will override any encoding specified in an XML declaration in the data. certified of type boolean If set to true, assume that the input is certified (see section 2.13 in [XML 1.1]) when parsing [XML 1.1]. characterStream of type DOMReader Depending on the language binding in use, this attribute may not be available. An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a stream of 16-bit units. The application must encode the stream using UTF-16 (defined in [Unicode] and Amendment 1 of [ISO/IEC 10646]). encoding of type DOMString The character encoding, if known. The encoding must be a string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([XML 1.0] section 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"). This attribute has no effect when the application provides a character stream or string data. For other sources of input, an encoding specified by means of this attribute will override any encoding specified in the XML declaration or the Text declaration, or an encoding obtained from a higher level protocol, such as HTTP [IETF RFC 2616]. publicId of type DOMString The public identifier for this input source. This may be mapped to an input source using an implementation dependent mechanism (such as catalogues or other mappings). The public identifier, if specified, may also be reported as part of the location information when errors are reported. stringData of type DOMString String data to parse. If provided, this will always be treated as a sequence of 16-bit units (UTF-16 encoded characters). systemId of type DOMString The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this input source. The system identifier is optional if there is a byte stream, a character stream, or string data, but it is still useful to provide one, since the application will use it to resolve any relative URI's and can include it in error messages and warnings (the DOMParser will only attempt to fetch the resource identified by the URI reference only if there is no other input available in the input source). If the application knows the character encoding of the object pointed to by the system identifier, it can set the encoding using the encoding attribute. If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the DOM implementation will attempt to resolve the relative URI with the baseURI as the base, if that fails, the behavior is implementation dependent. Interface DOMResourceResolver DOMResourceResolver provides a way for applications to redirect references to external resources. Applications needing to implement custom handling for external resources can implement this interface and register their implementation by setting the resourceResolver attribute of the DOMParser. The DOMParser will then allow the application to intercept any external entities (including the external DTD subset and external parameter entities) before including them. Many DOM applications will not need to implement this interface, but it will be especially useful for applications that build XML documents from databases or other specialized input sources, or for applications that use URN's. Note: DOMResourceResolver is based on the SAX2 [SAX] EntityResolver interface. IDL Definition interface DOMResourceResolver { DOMInput resolveResource(in DOMString publicId, in DOMString systemId, in DOMString baseURI); }; Methods resolveResource Allow the application to resolve external resources. The DOMParser will call this method before opening any external resource except the top-level document entity (including the external DTD subset, external entities referenced within the DTD, and external entities referenced within the document element); the application may request that the DOMParser resolve the resource itself, that it use an alternative URI, or that it use an entirely different input source. Application writers can use this method to redirect external system identifiers to secure and/or local URI's, to look up public identifiers in a catalogue, or to read an entity from a database or other input source (including, for example, a dialog box). If the system identifier is a URI, the DOMParser must resolve it fully before calling this method. Parameters publicId of type DOMString The public identifier of the external entity being referenced, or null if no public identifier was supplied or if the resource is not an entity. systemId of type DOMString The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], of the external resource being referenced. baseURI of type DOMString The absolute base URI of the resource being parsed, or null if there is no base URI. Return Value DOMInput A DOMInput object describing the new input source, or null to request that the parser open a regular URI connection to the system identifier. No Exceptions Interface DOMParserFilter DOMParserFilters provide applications the ability to examine nodes as they are being constructed while parsing. As each node is examined, it may be modified or removed, or the entire parse may be terminated early. At the time any of the filter methods are called by the parser, the owner Document and DOMImplementation objects exist and are accessible. The document element is never passed to the DOMParserFilter methods, i.e. it is not possible to filter out the document element. The Document, DocumentType, Notation, and Entity nodes are not passed to the acceptNode method on the filter. All validity checking while reading a document occurs on the source document as it appears on the input stream, not on the DOM document as it is built in memory. With filters, the document in memory may be a subset of the document on the stream, and its validity may have been affected by the filtering. All default content, including default attributes, must be passed to the filter methods. The DOMParser ignores any exception raised in the filter. IDL Definition interface DOMParserFilter { // Constants returned by startElement and acceptNode const short FILTER_ACCEPT = 1; const short FILTER_REJECT = 2; const short FILTER_SKIP = 3; const short FILTER_INTERRUPT = 4; unsigned short startElement(in Element element); unsigned short acceptNode(in Node node); readonly attribute unsigned long whatToShow; }; Definition group Constants returned by startElement and acceptNode Constants returned by startElement and acceptNode. Defined Constants FILTER_ACCEPT Accept the node. FILTER_INTERRUPT Interrupt the normal processing of the document. FILTER_REJECT Reject the node and its children. FILTER_SKIP Skip this single node. The children of this node will still be considered. Attributes whatToShow of type unsigned long, readonly Tells the DOMParser what types of nodes to show to the filter. See NodeFilter for definition of the constants. The constants SHOW_ATTRIBUTE, SHOW_DOCUMENT, SHOW_DOCUMENT_TYPE, SHOW_NOTATION, SHOW_ENTITY, and SHOW_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT are meaningless here, those nodes will never be passed to a DOMParserFilter. The constants used here are defined in [DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range]. Methods acceptNode This method will be called by the parser at the completion of the parsing of each node. The node and all of its descendants will exist and be complete. The parent node will also exist, although it may be incomplete, i.e. it may have additional children that have not yet been parsed. Attribute nodes are never passed to this function. From within this method, the new node may be freely modified - children may be added or removed, text nodes modified, etc. The state of the rest of the document outside this node is not defined, and the affect of any attempt to navigate to, or to modify any other part of the document is undefined. For validating parsers, the checks are made on the original document, before any modification by the filter. No validity checks are made on any document modifications made by the filter. If this new node is rejected, the parser might reuse the new node or any of its descendants. Parameters node of type Node The newly constructed element. At the time this method is called, the element is complete - it has all of its children (and their children, recursively) and attributes, and is attached as a child to its parent. Return Value unsigned * FILTER_ACCEPT if this Node should be short included in the DOM document being built. * FILTER_REJECT if the Node and all of its children should be rejected. * FILTER_SKIP if the Node should be skipped and the Node should be replaced by all the children of the Node. * FILTER_INTERRUPT if the filter wants to stop the processing of the document. Interrupting the processing of the document does no longer guarantee that the entire is XML well-formed. No Exceptions startElement The parser will call this method after each Element start tag has been scanned, but before the remainder of the Element is processed. The intent is to allow the element, including any children, to be efficiently skipped. Note that only element nodes are passed to the startElement function. The element node passed to startElement for filtering will include all of the Element's attributes, but none of the children nodes. The Element may not yet be in place in the document being constructed (it may not have a parent node.) A startElement filter function may access or change the attributes for the Element. Changing Namespace declarations will have no effect on namespace resolution by the parser. For efficiency, the Element node passed to the filter may not be the same one as is actually placed in the tree if the node is accepted. And the actual node (node object identity) may be reused during the process of reading in and filtering a document. Parameters element of type Element The newly encountered element. At the time this method is called, the element is incomplete - it will have its attributes, but no children. Return Value unsigned * FILTER_ACCEPT if this Element should be short included in the DOM document being built. * FILTER_REJECT if the Element and all of its children should be rejected. This return value will be ignored if element is the documentElement, the documentElement cannot be rejected. * FILTER_SKIP if the Element should be rejected. All of its children are inserted in place of the rejected Element node. This return value will be ignored if element is the documentElement, the documentElement cannot be rejected nor skipped. * FILTER_INTERRUPT if the filter wants to stop the processing of the document. Interrupting the processing of the document does no longer guarantee that the entire is XML well-formed. Returning any other values will result in unspecified behavior. No Exceptions Interface LSProgressEvent This interface represents a progress event object that notifies the application about progress as a document is parsed. It extends the Event interface defined in [DOM Level 3 Events]. IDL Definition interface LSProgressEvent : events::Event { readonly attribute DOMInput input; readonly attribute unsigned long position; readonly attribute unsigned long totalSize; }; Attributes input of type DOMInput, readonly The input source that is being parsed. position of type unsigned long, readonly The current position in the input source, including all external entities and other resources that have been read. totalSize of type unsigned long, readonly The total size of the document including all external resources, this number might change as a document is being parsed if references to more external resources are seen. Interface LSLoadEvent This interface represents a load event object that signals the completion of a document load. IDL Definition interface LSLoadEvent : events::Event { readonly attribute Document newDocument; readonly attribute DOMInput input; }; Attributes input of type DOMInput, readonly The input source that was parsed. newDocument of type Document, readonly The document that finished loading. Interface DOMSerializer DOMSerializer provides an API for serializing (writing) a DOM document out into XML. The XML data is written to a string or an output stream. During serialization of XML data, namespace fixup is done as defined in [DOM Level 3 Core], Appendix B. [DOM Level 2 Core] allows empty strings as a real namespace URI. If the namespaceURI of a Node is empty string, the serialization will treat them as null, ignoring the prefix if any. DOMSerializer accepts any node type for serialization. For nodes of type Document or Entity, well-formed XML will be created when possible (well-formedness is guaranteed if the document or entity comes from a parse operation and is unchanged since it was created). The serialized output for these node types is either as a XML document or an External XML Entity, respectively, and is acceptable input for an XML parser. For all other types of nodes the serialized form is not specified, but should be something useful to a human for debugging or diagnostic purposes. Within a Document, DocumentFragment, or Entity being serialized, Nodes are processed as follows o Document nodes are written, including the XML declaration (unless the parameter "xml-declaration" is set to false) and a DTD subset, if one exists in the DOM. Writing a Document node serializes the entire document. o Entity nodes, when written directly by DOMSerializer.write, outputs the entity expansion but no namespace fixup is done. The resulting output will be valid as an external entity. o EntityReference nodes are serialized as an entity reference of the form "&entityName;" in the output. Child nodes (the expansion) of the entity reference are ignored. o CDATA sections containing content characters that cannot be represented in the specified output encoding are handled according to the "split-cdata-sections" parameter. If the parameter is set to true, CDATA sections are split, and the unrepresentable characters are serialized as numeric character references in ordinary content. The exact position and number of splits is not specified. If the parameter is set to false, unrepresentable characters in a CDATA section are reported as "invalid-data-in-cdata-section" errors. The error is not recoverable - there is no mechanism for supplying alternative characters and continuing with the serialization. o DocumentFragment nodes are serialized by serializing the children of the document fragment in the order they appear in the document fragment. o All other node types (Element, Text, etc.) are serialized to their corresponding XML source form. Note: The serialization of a Node does not always generate a well-formed XML document, i.e. a DOMParser might throw fatal errors when parsing the resulting serialization. Within the character data of a document (outside of markup), any characters that cannot be represented directly are replaced with character references. Occurrences of '<' and '&' are replaced by the predefined entities < and &. The other predefined entities (>, ', and ") might not be used, except where needed (e.g. using > in cases such as ']]>'). Any characters that cannot be represented directly in the output character encoding are serialized as numeric character references. To allow attribute values to contain both single and double quotes, the apostrophe or single-quote character (') may be represented as "'", and the double-quote character (") as """. New line characters and other characters that cannot be represented directly in attribute values in the output character encoding are serialized as a numeric character reference. Within markup, but outside of attributes, any occurrence of a character that cannot be represented in the output character encoding is reported as an error. An example would be serializing the element with encoding="us-ascii". When requested by setting the parameter "normalize-characters" on DOMSerializer to true, character normalization is performed according to the rules defined in [CharModel] on all data to be serialized, both markup and character data. The character normalization process affects only the data as it is being written; it does not alter the DOM's view of the document after serialization has completed. When outputting unicode data, whether or not a byte order mark is serialized, or if the output is big-endian or little-endian, is implementation dependent. Namespaces are fixed up during serialization, the serialization process will verify that namespace declarations, namespace prefixes and the namespace URI's associated with elements and attributes are consistent. If inconsistencies are found, the serialized form of the document will be altered to remove them. The method used for doing the namespace fixup while serializing a document is the algorithm defined in Appendix B.1, "Namespace normalization", of [DOM Level 3 Core]. Any changes made affect only the namespace prefixes and declarations appearing in the serialized data. The DOM's view of the document is not altered by the serialization operation, and does not reflect any changes made to namespace declarations or prefixes in the serialized output. Issue DOMSerializer-change-DOM: We may take back what we say in the above paragraph depending on feedback from implementors, but for now the belief is that the DOM's view of the document is not changed during serialization. While serializing a document, the parameter "discard-default-content" controls whether or not non-specified data is serialized. While serializing, errors are reported to the application through the error handler (DOMSerializer.config's "error-handler" parameter). This specification does in no way try to define all possible errors that can occur while serializing a DOM node, but some common error cases are defined. The types (DOMError.type) of errors and warnings defined by this specification are: "invalid-data-in-cdata-section" [fatal] Raised if the configuration parameter "split-cdata-sections" is set to false and invalid data is encountered in a CDATA section. "unsupported-encoding" [fatal] Raised if an unsupported encoding is encountered. "unbound-namespace-in-entity" [warning] Raised if the configuration parameter "entities" is set to true and an unbound namespace prefix is encounterd in a referenced entity. "no-output-specified" [fatal] Raised when writing to a DOMOutput if no output is specified in the DOMOutput. In addition to raising the defined errors and warnings, implementations are expected to raise implementation specific errors and warnings for any other error and warning cases such as IO errors (file not found, permission denied,...) and so on. IDL Definition interface DOMSerializer { readonly attribute DOMConfiguration config; attribute DOMString newLine; attribute DOMSerializerFilter filter; boolean write(in Node node, in DOMOutput destination); boolean writeURI(in Node node, in DOMString URI); DOMString writeToString(in Node node) raises(DOMException); }; Attributes config of type DOMConfiguration, readonly The DOMConfiguration object used by the DOMSerializer when serializing a DOM node. In addition to the parameters recognized in the [DOM Level 3 Core], the DOMConfiguration objects for DOMSerializer adds, or modifies, the following parameters: "canonical-form" true [optional] This formatting writes the document according to the rules specified in [Canonical XML]. Setting this parameter to true will set the parameter "format-pretty-print" to false. false [required] (default) Do not canonicalize the output. "discard-default-content" true [required] (default) Use the Attr.specified attribute to decide what attributes should be discarded. Note that some implementations might use whatever information available to the implementation (i.e. XML schema, DTD, the Attr.specified attribute, and so on) to determine what attributes and content to discard if this parameter is set to true. false [required] Keep all attributes and all content. "format-pretty-print" true [optional] Formatting the output by adding whitespace to produce a pretty-printed, indented, human-readable form. The exact form of the transformations is not specified by this specification. Pretty-printing changes the content of the document and may affect the validity of the document, validating implementations should preserve validity. Setting this parameter to true will set the parameter "canonical-form" to false. false [required] (default) Don't pretty-print the result. "ignore-unknown-character-denormalizations" true [required] (default) If, while verifying full normalization when [XML 1.1] is supported, a character is encountered for which the normalization properties cannot be determined, then raise a "unknown-character-denormalization" warning (instead of raising an error, if this parameter is not set) and ignore any possible denormalizations caused by these characters. Issue DOMSerializer-iucd-issue: IMO it would make sense to move this parameter into the DOM Level 3 Core spec, and the error/warning should be defined there. false [optional] Report an fatal error if a character is encountered for which the processor cannot determine the normalization properties. "normalize-characters" This parameter is equivalent to the one defined by DOMConfiguration in [DOM Level 3 Core]. Unlike in the Core, the default value for this parameter is true. While DOM implementations are not required to support fully normalizing the characters in the document according to the rules defined in [CharModel] supplemented by the definitions of relevant constructs from Section 2.13 of [XML 1.1], this parameter must be activated by default if supported. "xml-declaration" true [required] (default) If a Document, Element, or Entity node is serialized, the XML declaration, or text declaration, should be included. The version (Document.xmlVersion if the document is a Level 3 document, and the version is non-null, otherwise use the value "1.0"), and possibly an encoding (DOMSerializer.encoding, or Document.actualEncoding or Document.xmlEncoding if the document is a Level 3 document) is specified in the serialized XML declaration. false [required] Do not serialize the XML and text declarations. Report a "xml-declaration-needed" warning if this will cause problems (i.e. the serialized data is of an XML version other than [XML 1.0], or an encoding would be needed to be able to re-parse the serialized data). The parameters "well-formed", "namespaces", and "namespace-declarations" cannot be set to false. filter of type DOMSerializerFilter When the application provides a filter, the serializer will call out to the filter before serializing each Node. The filter implementation can choose to remove the node from the stream or to terminate the serialization early. The filter is invoked before the operations requested by the DOMConfiguration parameters have been applied. For example, CDATA sections are passed to the filter even if "cdata-sections" is set to false. newLine of type DOMString The end-of-line sequence of characters to be used in the XML being written out. Any string is supported, but these are the recommended end-of-line sequences (using other character sequences than these recommended ones can result in a document that is either not serializable or not well-formed): null Use a default end-of-line sequence. DOM implementations should choose the default to match the usual convention for text files in the environment being used. Implementations must choose a default sequence that matches one of those allowed by section 2.11, "End-of-Line Handling" in [XML 1.0], if the serialized content is XML 1.0 or section 2.11, "End-of-Line Handling" in [XML 1.1], if the serialized content is XML 1.1. CR The carriage-return character (#xD). CR-LF The carriage-return and line-feed characters (#xD #xA). LF The line-feed character (#xA). The default value for this attribute is null. Methods write Serialize the specified node as described above in the general description of the DOMSerializer interface. The output is written to the supplied DOMOutput. When writing to a DOMOutput, the encoding is found by looking at the encoding information that is reachable through the DOMOutput and the item to be written (or its owner document) in this order: 1. DOMOutput.encoding, 2. Document.actualEncoding, 3. Document.xmlEncoding. If no encoding is reachable through the above properties, a default encoding of "UTF-8" will be used. If the specified encoding is not supported an "unsupported-encoding" error is raised. If no output is specified in the DOMOutput, a "no-output-specified" error is raised. Parameters node of type Node The node to serialize. destination of type DOMOutput The destination for the serialized DOM. Return Value boolean Returns true if node was successfully serialized and false in case the node couldn't be serialized. No Exceptions writeToString Serialize the specified node as described above in the general description of the DOMSerializer interface. The output is written to a DOMString that is returned to the caller (this method completely ignores all the encoding information available). Parameters node of type Node The node to serialize. Return Value DOMString Returns the serialized data, or null in case the node couldn't be serialized. Exceptions DOMException DOMSTRING_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the resulting string is too long to fit in a DOMString. writeURI Serialize the specified node as described above in the general description of the DOMSerializer interface. The output is written to the supplied URI. When writing to a URI, the encoding is found by looking at the encoding information that is reachable through the item to be written (or its owner document) in this order: 1. Document.actualEncoding, 2. Document.xmlEncoding. If no encoding is reachable through the above properties, a default encoding of "UTF-8" will be used. If the specified encoding is not supported an "unsupported-encoding" error is raised. Parameters node of type Node The node to serialize. URI of type DOMString The URI to write to. Return Value boolean Returns true if node was successfully serialized and false in case the node couldn't be serialized. No Exceptions Interface DOMOutput This interface represents an output destination for data. This interface allows an application to encapsulate information about an output destination in a single object, which may include a URI, a byte stream (possibly with a specified encoding), a base URI, and/or a character stream. The exact definitions of a byte stream and a character stream are binding dependent. The application is expected to provide objects that implement this interface whenever such objects are needed. The application can either provide its own objects that implement this interface, or it can use the generic factory method DOMImplementationLS.createDOMOutput() to create objects that implement this interface. The DOMSerializer will use the DOMOutput object to determine where to serialize the output to. The DOMSerializer will look at the different outputs specified in the DOMOutput in the following order to know which one to output to, the first one that data can be output to will be used: 1. DOMOutput.characterStream 2. DOMOutput.byteStream 3. DOMOutput.systemId DOMOutput objects belong to the application. The DOM implementation will never modify them (though it may make copies and modify the copies, if necessary). IDL Definition interface DOMOutput { // Depending on the language binding in use, // this attribute may not be available. attribute DOMWriter characterStream; attribute DOMOutputStream byteStream; attribute DOMString systemId; attribute DOMString encoding; }; Attributes byteStream of type DOMOutputStream An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream of bytes. If the application knows the character encoding of the byte stream, it should set the encoding attribute. Setting the encoding in this way will override any encoding specified in an XML declaration in the data. characterStream of type DOMWriter Depending on the language binding in use, this attribute may not be available. An attribute of a language and binding dependent type that represents a writable stream to which 16-bit units can be output. The application must encode the stream using UTF-16 (defined in [Unicode] and Amendment 1 of [ISO/IEC 10646]). encoding of type DOMString The character encoding, if known. The encoding must be a string acceptable for an XML encoding declaration ([XML 1.0] section 4.3.3 "Character Encoding in Entities"). This attribute has no effect when the application provides a character stream or string data. For other sources of input, an encoding specified by means of this attribute will override any encoding specified in the XML declaration or the Text declaration, or an encoding obtained from a higher level protocol, such as HTTP [IETF RFC 2616]. systemId of type DOMString The system identifier, a URI reference [IETF RFC 2396], for this output destination. If the application knows the character encoding of the object pointed to by the system identifier, it can set the encoding using the encoding attribute. If the system ID is a relative URI reference (see section 5 in [IETF RFC 2396]), the behavior is implementation dependent. Interface DOMSerializerFilter DOMSerializerFilters provide applications the ability to examine nodes as they are being serialized and decide what nodes should be serialized or not. The DOMSerializerFilter interface is based on the NodeFilter interface defined in [DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range]. The Document, DocumentType, DocumentFragment, Attr, Notation, and Entity nodes are not passed to the filter. The result of any attempt to modify a node passed to a DOMSerializerFilter is implementation dependent. IDL Definition interface DOMSerializerFilter : traversal::NodeFilter { readonly attribute unsigned long whatToShow; }; Attributes whatToShow of type unsigned long, readonly Tells the DOMSerializer what types of nodes to show to the filter. See NodeFilter for definition of the constants. The constants SHOW_ATTRIBUTE, SHOW_DOCUMENT, SHOW_DOCUMENT_TYPE, SHOW_NOTATION, SHOW_ATTRIBUTE, and SHOW_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT are meaningless here, those nodes will never be passed to a DOMSerializerFilter. The constants used here are defined in [DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range]. 1.4 Convenience Interfaces The interfaces defined in this section provide no direct functionality that cannot be achieved with the load and save interfaces defined in the earlier sections of this specification. These interfaces are defined for developer convenience only, and supporting them is optional. These interfaces are not nearly as flexible as the ones defined earlier in this specification, for example, no configuration parameters are settable when calling these methods, and the values of all configuration parameters are predefined. Interface DocumentLS The DocumentLS interface provides a mechanism by which the content of a document can be serialized, or replaced with the DOM tree produced when loading a URI, or parsing a string. If the DocumentLS interface is supported, the expectation is that an instance of the DocumentLS interface can be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an instance of the Document interface, or by using the method Node.getFeature with parameter values "DocumentLS" and "3.0" (respectively) on an Document, if the Document supports the feature "Core" version "3.0" defined in [DOM Level 3 Core] This interface is optional. If supported, implementations must support version "3.0" of the feature "DocumentLS". IDL Definition interface DocumentLS { attribute boolean async; // raises(DOMException) on setting void abort(); boolean load(in DOMString uri); boolean loadXML(in DOMString source); DOMString saveXML(in Node node) raises(DOMException); }; Attributes async of type boolean Indicates whether the method DocumentLS.load() should be synchronous or asynchronous. When the async attribute is set to true the load method returns control to the caller before the document has completed loading. The default value of this attribute is true. Exceptions on setting DOMException NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the implementation doesn't support the mode the attribute is being set to. Methods abort If the document is currently being loaded as a result of the method load being invoked the loading and parsing is immediately aborted. The possibly partial result of parsing the document is discarded and the document is cleared. No Parameters No Return Value No Exceptions load Replaces the content of the document with the result of parsing the given URI. Invoking this method will either block the caller or return to the caller immediately depending on the value of the async attribute. Once the document is fully loaded a "load" event (as defined in [DOM Level 3 Events], except that the Event.targetNode will be the document, not an element) will be dispatched on the document. If an error occurs, an implementation dependent "error" event will be dispatched on the document. If this method is called on a document that is currently loading, the current load is interrupted and the new URI load is initiated. When invoking this method the parameters used in the DOMParser interface are assumed to have their default values with the exception that the parameters "entities", "normalize-characters", "check-character-normalization" are set to "false". The result of a call to this method is the same the result of a call to DOMParser.parseWithContext with an input stream referencing the URI that was passed to this call, the document as the context node, and the action ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN. Parameters uri of type DOMString The URI reference for the XML file to be loaded. If this is a relative URI, the base URI used by the implementation is implementation dependent. Return Value boolean If async is set to true load returns true if the document load was successfully initiated. If an error occurred when initiating the document load, load returns false. If async is set to false load returns true if the document was successfully loaded and parsed. If an error occurred when either loading or parsing the URI, load returns false. No Exceptions loadXML Replace the content of the document with the result of parsing the input string, this method is always synchronous. This method always parses from a DOMString, which means the data is always UTF-16. All other encoding information is ignored. The parameters used in the DOMParser interface are assumed to have their default values when invoking this method. The result of a call to this method is the same the result of a call to DOMParser.parseWithContext with an input stream containing the string passed to this call, the document as the context node, and the action ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN. Parameters source of type DOMString A string containing an XML document. Return Value boolean true if parsing the input string succeeded without errors, otherwise false. No Exceptions saveXML Save the document or the given node and all its descendants to a string (i.e. serialize the document or node). The parameters used in the DOMSerializer interface are assumed to have their default values when invoking this method. The result of a call to this method is the same the result of a call to DOMSerializer.writeToString with the document as the node to write. Parameters node of type Node Specifies what to serialize, if this parameter is null the whole document is serialized, if it's non-null the given node is serialized. Return Value DOMString The serialized document or null in case an error occurred. Exceptions DOMException WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if the node passed in as the node parameter is from an other document. Interface ElementLS The ElementLS interface provides a convenient mechanism by which the children of an element can be serialized to a string, or replaced by the result of parsing a provided string. If the ElementLS interface is supported, the expectation is that an instance of the ElementLS interface can be obtained by using binding-specific casting methods on an instance of the Element interface, or by using the method Node.getFeature with parameter values "ElementLS" and "3.0" (respectively) on an Element, if the Element supports the feature "Core" version "3.0" defined in [DOM Level 3 Core]. This interface is optional. If supported, implementations must support version "3.0" of the feature "ElementLS". IDL Definition interface ElementLS { attribute DOMString markupContent; }; Attributes markupContent of type DOMString The content of the element in serialized form. When getting the value of this attribute, the children are serialized in document order and the serialized result is returned. This is equivalent of calling DOMSerializer.writeToString() on all children in document order and appending the result of the individual results to a single string that is then returned as the value of this attribute. When setting the value of this attribute, all children of the element are removed, the provided string is parsed and the result of the parse operation is inserted into the element. This is equivalent of calling DOMParser.parseWithContext() passing in the provided string (through the input source argument), the Element, and the action ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN. If an error occurs while parsing the provided string, the Element's owner document's error handler will be called, and the Element is left with no children. Both setting and getting the value of this attribute assumes that the parameters in the DOMConfiguration object have their default values. 19 June 2003 Appendix A: IDL Definitions This appendix contains the complete OMG IDL [OMG IDL] for the Level 3 Document Object Model Abstract Schemas and Load and Save definitions. The IDL files are also available as: http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-LS-20030619/idl.zip ls.idl: // File: ls.idl #ifndef _LS_IDL_ #define _LS_IDL_ #include "dom.idl" #include "events.idl" #include "traversal.idl" #pragma prefix "dom.w3c.org" module ls { typedef Object DOMInputStream; typedef Object DOMOutputStream; typedef Object DOMReader; typedef Object DOMWriter; typedef dom::DOMString DOMString; typedef dom::DOMConfiguration DOMConfiguration; typedef dom::Node Node; typedef dom::Document Document; typedef dom::Element Element; interface DOMParser; interface DOMSerializer; interface DOMInput; interface DOMParserFilter; interface DOMSerializerFilter; interface DOMOutput; interface DOMImplementationLS { // DOMImplementationLSMode const unsigned short MODE_SYNCHRONOUS = 1; const unsigned short MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS = 2; DOMParser createDOMParser(in unsigned short mode, in DOMString schemaType) raises(dom::DOMException); DOMSerializer createDOMSerializer(); DOMInput createDOMInput(); }; interface DOMParser { readonly attribute DOMConfiguration config; attribute DOMParserFilter filter; readonly attribute boolean async; readonly attribute boolean busy; Document parse(in DOMInput is) raises(dom::DOMException); Document parseURI(in DOMString uri) raises(dom::DOMException); // ACTION_TYPES const unsigned short ACTION_APPEND_AS_CHILDREN = 1; const unsigned short ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN = 2; const unsigned short ACTION_INSERT_BEFORE = 3; const unsigned short ACTION_INSERT_AFTER = 4; const unsigned short ACTION_REPLACE = 5; Node parseWithContext(in DOMInput input, in Node context, in unsigned short action) raises(dom::DOMException); void abort(); }; interface DOMInput { // Depending on the language binding in use, // this attribute may not be available. attribute DOMReader characterStream; attribute DOMInputStream byteStream; attribute DOMString stringData; attribute DOMString systemId; attribute DOMString encoding; attribute DOMString publicId; attribute DOMString baseURI; attribute boolean certified; }; interface DOMResourceResolver { DOMInput resolveResource(in DOMString publicId, in DOMString systemId, in DOMString baseURI); }; interface DOMParserFilter { // Constants returned by startElement and acceptNode const short FILTER_ACCEPT = 1; const short FILTER_REJECT = 2; const short FILTER_SKIP = 3; const short FILTER_INTERRUPT = 4; unsigned short startElement(in Element element); unsigned short acceptNode(in Node node); readonly attribute unsigned long whatToShow; }; interface DOMSerializer { readonly attribute DOMConfiguration config; attribute DOMString newLine; attribute DOMSerializerFilter filter; boolean write(in Node node, in DOMOutput destination); boolean writeURI(in Node node, in DOMString URI); DOMString writeToString(in Node node) raises(dom::DOMException); }; interface DOMOutput { // Depending on the language binding in use, // this attribute may not be available. attribute DOMWriter characterStream; attribute DOMOutputStream byteStream; attribute DOMString systemId; attribute DOMString encoding; }; interface DocumentLS { attribute boolean async; // raises(dom::DOMException) on setting void abort(); boolean load(in DOMString uri); boolean loadXML(in DOMString source); DOMString saveXML(in Node node) raises(dom::DOMException); }; interface ElementLS { attribute DOMString markupContent; }; interface LSProgressEvent : events::Event { readonly attribute DOMInput input; readonly attribute unsigned long position; readonly attribute unsigned long totalSize; }; interface LSLoadEvent : events::Event { readonly attribute Document newDocument; readonly attribute DOMInput input; }; interface DOMSerializerFilter : traversal::NodeFilter { readonly attribute unsigned long whatToShow; }; }; #endif // _LS_IDL_ 19 June 2003 Appendix B: Java Language Binding This appendix contains the complete Java [Java] bindings for the Level 3 Document Object Model Load and Save. The Java files are also available as http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-DOM-Level-3-LS-20030619/java-binding.zip org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMImplementationLS.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.DOMException; public interface DOMImplementationLS { // DOMImplementationLSMode public static final short MODE_SYNCHRONOUS = 1; public static final short MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS = 2; public DOMParser createDOMParser(short mode, String schemaType) throws DOMException; public DOMSerializer createDOMSerializer(); public DOMInput createDOMInput(); } org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMParser.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.DOMConfiguration; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.DOMException; public interface DOMParser { public DOMConfiguration getConfig(); public DOMParserFilter getFilter(); public void setFilter(DOMParserFilter filter); public boolean getAsync(); public boolean getBusy(); public Document parse(DOMInput is) throws DOMException; public Document parseURI(String uri) throws DOMException; // ACTION_TYPES public static final short ACTION_APPEND_AS_CHILDREN = 1; public static final short ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN = 2; public static final short ACTION_INSERT_BEFORE = 3; public static final short ACTION_INSERT_AFTER = 4; public static final short ACTION_REPLACE = 5; public Node parseWithContext(DOMInput input, Node context, short action) throws DOMException; public void abort(); } org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMInput.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.DOMInputStream; import org.w3c.dom.DOMReader; public interface DOMInput { public DOMReader getCharacterStream(); public void setCharacterStream(DOMReader characterStream); public DOMInputStream getByteStream(); public void setByteStream(DOMInputStream byteStream); public String getStringData(); public void setStringData(String stringData); public String getSystemId(); public void setSystemId(String systemId); public String getEncoding(); public void setEncoding(String encoding); public String getPublicId(); public void setPublicId(String publicId); public String getBaseURI(); public void setBaseURI(String baseURI); public boolean getCertified(); public void setCertified(boolean certified); } org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMResourceResolver.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; public interface DOMResourceResolver { public DOMInput resolveResource(String publicId, String systemId, String baseURI); } org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMParserFilter.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.Element; import org.w3c.dom.Node; public interface DOMParserFilter { // Constants returned by startElement and acceptNode public static final short FILTER_ACCEPT = 1; public static final short FILTER_REJECT = 2; public static final short FILTER_SKIP = 3; public static final short FILTER_INTERRUPT = 4; public short startElement(Element element); public short acceptNode(Node node); public int getWhatToShow(); } org/w3c/dom/ls/LSProgressEvent.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.events.Event; public interface LSProgressEvent extends Event { public DOMInput getInput(); public int getPosition(); public int getTotalSize(); } org/w3c/dom/ls/LSLoadEvent.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import org.w3c.dom.events.Event; public interface LSLoadEvent extends Event { public Document getNewDocument(); public DOMInput getInput(); } org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMSerializer.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.DOMConfiguration; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.DOMException; public interface DOMSerializer { public DOMConfiguration getConfig(); public String getNewLine(); public void setNewLine(String newLine); public DOMSerializerFilter getFilter(); public void setFilter(DOMSerializerFilter filter); public boolean write(Node node, DOMOutput destination); public boolean writeURI(Node node, String URI); public String writeToString(Node node) throws DOMException; } org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMOutput.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.DOMWriter; import org.w3c.dom.DOMOutputStream; public interface DOMOutput { public DOMWriter getCharacterStream(); public void setCharacterStream(DOMWriter characterStream); public DOMOutputStream getByteStream(); public void setByteStream(DOMOutputStream byteStream); public String getSystemId(); public void setSystemId(String systemId); public String getEncoding(); public void setEncoding(String encoding); } org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMSerializerFilter.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter; public interface DOMSerializerFilter extends NodeFilter { public int getWhatToShow(); } org/w3c/dom/ls/DocumentLS.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; import org.w3c.dom.Node; import org.w3c.dom.DOMException; public interface DocumentLS { public boolean getAsync(); public void setAsync(boolean async) throws DOMException; public void abort(); public boolean load(String uri); public boolean loadXML(String source); public String saveXML(Node node) throws DOMException; } org/w3c/dom/ls/ElementLS.java: package org.w3c.dom.ls; public interface ElementLS { public String getMarkupContent(); public void setMarkupContent(String markupContent); } 19 June 2003 Appendix C: ECMAScript Language Binding This appendix contains the complete ECMAScript [ECMAScript] binding for the Level 3 Document Object Model Load and Save definitions. Properties of the DOMImplementationLS Constructor function: DOMImplementationLS.MODE_SYNCHRONOUS The value of the constant DOMImplementationLS.MODE_SYNCHRONOUS is 1. DOMImplementationLS.MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS The value of the constant DOMImplementationLS.MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS is 2. Objects that implement the DOMImplementationLS interface: Functions of objects that implement the DOMImplementationLS interface: createDOMParser(mode, schemaType) This function returns an object that implements the DOMParser interface. The mode parameter is a Number. The schemaType parameter is a String. This function can raise an object that implements the DOMException interface. createDOMSerializer() This function returns an object that implements the DOMSerializer interface. createDOMInput() This function returns an object that implements the DOMInput interface. Properties of the DOMParser Constructor function: DOMParser.ACTION_APPEND_AS_CHILDREN The value of the constant DOMParser.ACTION_APPEND_AS_CHILDREN is 1. DOMParser.ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN The value of the constant DOMParser.ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN is 2. DOMParser.ACTION_INSERT_BEFORE The value of the constant DOMParser.ACTION_INSERT_BEFORE is 3. DOMParser.ACTION_INSERT_AFTER The value of the constant DOMParser.ACTION_INSERT_AFTER is 4. DOMParser.ACTION_REPLACE The value of the constant DOMParser.ACTION_REPLACE is 5. Objects that implement the DOMParser interface: Properties of objects that implement the DOMParser interface: config This read-only property is an object that implements the DOMConfiguration interface. filter This property is an object that implements the DOMParserFilter interface. async This read-only property is a Boolean. busy This read-only property is a Boolean. Functions of objects that implement the DOMParser interface: parse(is) This function returns an object that implements the Document interface. The is parameter is an object that implements the DOMInput interface. This function can raise an object that implements the DOMException interface. parseURI(uri) This function returns an object that implements the Document interface. The uri parameter is a String. This function can raise an object that implements the DOMException interface. parseWithContext(input, context, action) This function returns an object that implements the Node interface. The input parameter is an object that implements the DOMInput interface. The context parameter is an object that implements the Node interface. The action parameter is a Number. This function can raise an object that implements the DOMException interface. abort() This function has no return value. Objects that implement the DOMInput interface: Properties of objects that implement the DOMInput interface: byteStream This property is an object that implements the DOMInputStream interface. stringData This property is a String. systemId This property is a String. encoding This property is a String. publicId This property is a String. baseURI This property is a String. certified This property is a Boolean. Objects that implement the DOMResourceResolver interface: Functions of objects that implement the DOMResourceResolver interface: resolveResource(publicId, systemId, baseURI) This function returns an object that implements the DOMInput interface. The publicId parameter is a String. The systemId parameter is a String. The baseURI parameter is a String. Properties of the DOMParserFilter Constructor function: DOMParserFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT The value of the constant DOMParserFilter.FILTER_ACCEPT is 1. DOMParserFilter.FILTER_REJECT The value of the constant DOMParserFilter.FILTER_REJECT is 2. DOMParserFilter.FILTER_SKIP The value of the constant DOMParserFilter.FILTER_SKIP is 3. DOMParserFilter.FILTER_INTERRUPT The value of the constant DOMParserFilter.FILTER_INTERRUPT is 4. Objects that implement the DOMParserFilter interface: Properties of objects that implement the DOMParserFilter interface: whatToShow This read-only property is a Number. Functions of objects that implement the DOMParserFilter interface: startElement(element) This function returns a Number. The element parameter is an object that implements the Element interface. acceptNode(node) This function returns a Number. The node parameter is an object that implements the Node interface. Objects that implement the LSProgressEvent interface: Objects that implement the LSProgressEvent interface have all properties and functions of the Event interface as well as the properties and functions defined below. Properties of objects that implement the LSProgressEvent interface: input This read-only property is an object that implements the DOMInput interface. position This read-only property is a Number. totalSize This read-only property is a Number. Objects that implement the LSLoadEvent interface: Objects that implement the LSLoadEvent interface have all properties and functions of the Event interface as well as the properties and functions defined below. Properties of objects that implement the LSLoadEvent interface: newDocument This read-only property is an object that implements the Document interface. input This read-only property is an object that implements the DOMInput interface. Objects that implement the DOMSerializer interface: Properties of objects that implement the DOMSerializer interface: config This read-only property is an object that implements the DOMConfiguration interface. newLine This property is a String. filter This property is an object that implements the DOMSerializerFilter interface. Functions of objects that implement the DOMSerializer interface: write(node, destination) This function returns a Boolean. The node parameter is an object that implements the Node interface. The destination parameter is an object that implements the DOMOutput interface. writeURI(node, URI) This function returns a Boolean. The node parameter is an object that implements the Node interface. The URI parameter is a String. writeToString(node) This function returns a String. The node parameter is an object that implements the Node interface. This function can raise an object that implements the DOMException interface. Objects that implement the DOMOutput interface: Properties of objects that implement the DOMOutput interface: byteStream This property is an object that implements the DOMOutputStream interface. systemId This property is a String. encoding This property is a String. Objects that implement the DOMSerializerFilter interface: Objects that implement the DOMSerializerFilter interface have all properties and functions of the NodeFilter interface as well as the properties and functions defined below. Properties of objects that implement the DOMSerializerFilter interface: whatToShow This read-only property is a Number. Objects that implement the DocumentLS interface: Properties of objects that implement the DocumentLS interface: async This property is a Boolean and can raise an object that implements DOMException interface on setting. Functions of objects that implement the DocumentLS interface: abort() This function has no return value. load(uri) This function returns a Boolean. The uri parameter is a String. loadXML(source) This function returns a Boolean. The source parameter is a String. saveXML(node) This function returns a String. The node parameter is an object that implements the Node interface. This function can raise an object that implements the DOMException interface. Objects that implement the ElementLS interface: Properties of objects that implement the ElementLS interface: markupContent This property is a String. 19 June 2003 Appendix D: Acknowledgements Many people contributed to the DOM specifications (Level 1, 2 or 3), including members of the DOM Working Group and the DOM Interest Group. We especially thank the following: Andrew Watson (Object Management Group), Andy Heninger (IBM), Angel Diaz (IBM), Arnaud Le Hors (W3C and IBM), Ashok Malhotra (IBM and Microsoft), Ben Chang (Oracle), Bill Smith (Sun), Bill Shea (Merrill Lynch), Bob Sutor (IBM), Chris Lovett (Microsoft), Chris Wilson (Microsoft), David Brownell (Sun), David Ezell (Hewlett Packard Company), David Singer (IBM), Dimitris Dimitriadis (Improve AB and invited expert), Don Park (invited), Elena Litani (IBM), Eric Vasilik (Microsoft), Gavin Nicol (INSO), Ian Jacobs (W3C), James Clark (invited), James Davidson (Sun), Jared Sorensen (Novell), Jeroen van Rotterdam (X-Hive Corporation), Joe Kesselman (IBM), Joe Lapp (webMethods), Joe Marini (Macromedia), Johnny Stenback (Netscape/AOL), Jon Ferraiolo (Adobe), Jonathan Marsh (Microsoft), Jonathan Robie (Texcel Research and Software AG), Kim Adamson-Sharpe (SoftQuad Software Inc.), Lauren Wood (SoftQuad Software Inc., former Chair), Laurence Cable (Sun), Mark Davis (IBM), Mark Scardina (Oracle), Martin Dürst (W3C), Mary Brady (NIST), Mick Goulish (Software AG), Mike Champion (Arbortext and Software AG), Miles Sabin (Cromwell Media), Patti Lutsky (Arbortext), Paul Grosso (Arbortext), Peter Sharpe (SoftQuad Software Inc.), Phil Karlton (Netscape), Philippe Le Hégaret (W3C, W3C team contact and former Chair), Ramesh Lekshmynarayanan (Merrill Lynch), Ray Whitmer (iMall, Excite@Home, and Netscape/AOL, Chair), Rezaur Rahman (Intel), Rich Rollman (Microsoft), Rick Gessner (Netscape), Rick Jelliffe (invited), Rob Relyea (Microsoft), Scott Isaacs (Microsoft), Sharon Adler (INSO), Steve Byrne (JavaSoft), Tim Bray (invited), Tim Yu (Oracle), Tom Pixley (Netscape/AOL), Vidur Apparao (Netscape), Vinod Anupam (Lucent). Thanks to all those who have helped to improve this specification by sending suggestions and corrections (Please, keep bugging us with your issues!). Special thanks to the DOM Conformance Test Suites contributors: Curt Arnold, Fred Drake, Mary Brady (NIST), Rick Rivello (NIST), Robert Clary (Netscape). D.1 Production Systems This specification was written in XML. The HTML, OMG IDL, Java and ECMAScript bindings were all produced automatically. Thanks to Joe English, author of cost, which was used as the basis for producing DOM Level 1. Thanks also to Gavin Nicol, who wrote the scripts which run on top of cost. Arnaud Le Hors and Philippe Le Hégaret maintained the scripts. After DOM Level 1, we used Xerces as the basis DOM implementation and wish to thank the authors. Philippe Le Hégaret and Arnaud Le Hors wrote the Java programs which are the DOM application. Thanks also to Jan Kärrman, author of html2ps, which we use in creating the PostScript version of the specification. 19 June 2003 Glossary Editors: Arnaud Le Hors, W3C Robert S. Sutor, IBM Research (for DOM Level 1) Several of the following term definitions have been borrowed or modified from similar definitions in other W3C or standards documents. See the links within the definitions for more information. 16-bit unit The base unit of a DOMString. This indicates that indexing on a DOMString occurs in units of 16 bits. This must not be misunderstood to mean that a DOMString can store arbitrary 16-bit units. A DOMString is a character string encoded in UTF-16; this means that the restrictions of UTF-16 as well as the other relevant restrictions on character strings must be maintained. A single character, for example in the form of a numeric character reference, may correspond to one or two 16-bit units. API An API is an Application Programming Interface, a set of functions or methods used to access some functionality. namespace well-formed A node is a namespace well-formed XML node if it is a well-formed node, and follow the productions and namespace constraints. If [XML 1.0] is used, the constraints are defined in [XML Namespaces]. If [XML 1.1] is used, the constraints are defined in [XML Namespaces 1.1]. read only node A read only node is a node that is immutable. This means its list of children, its content, and its attributes, when it is an element, cannot be changed in any way. However, a read only node can possibly be moved, when it is not itself contained in a read only node. schema A schema defines a set of structural and value constraints applicable to XML documents. Schemas can be expressed in schema languages, such as DTD, XML Schema, etc. well-formed A node is a well-formed XML node if its serialized form, without doing any transformation during its serialization, matches its respective production in [XML 1.0] or [XML 1.1] (depending on the XML version in use) with all well-formedness constraints related to that production, and if the entities which are referenced within the node are also well-formed. If namespaces for XML are in use, the node must also be namespace well-formed. 19 June 2003 References For the latest version of any W3C specification please consult the list of W3C Technical Reports available at http://www.w3.org/TR. F.1 Normative references [CharModel] Character Model for the World Wide Web 1.0, M. Dürst, F. Yergeau, R. Ishida, M. Wolf, A. Freytag, T. Texin, Editors. World Wide Web Consortium, April 2002. This version of the Character Model for the World Wide Web Specification is http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-charmod-20020430. 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The latest version of XML Schema Part 1 is available at http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1. 19 June 2003 Index "ignore-unknown-character-denormalizations" "canonical-form" "charset-overrides-xml-encoding" "disallow-doctype" 1, 2 "discard-default-content" 1, 2 "format-pretty-print" 1, 2 "ignore-unknown-character-denormalizations" 1, 2 "infoset" "namespaces" "normalize-characters" "supported-media-types-only" 1, 2 "xml-declaration" 1, 2 16-bit unit 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 [attributes] abort 1, 2 acceptNode ACTION_APPEND_AS_CHILDREN ACTION_INSERT_AFTER ACTION_INSERT_BEFORE ACTION_REPLACE ACTION_REPLACE_CHILDREN API 1, 2 async 1, 2 baseURI busy byteStream 1, 2 Canonical XML 1, 2 certified characterStream 1, 2 CharModel 1, 2, 3 config 1, 2 createDOMInput createDOMParser createDOMSerializer DocumentLS DOM Level 2 Core 1, 2, 3, 4 DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range 1, 2, 3, 4 DOM Level 3 Core 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 DOM Level 3 Events 1, 2, 3 DOMImplementationLS DOMInput DOMInputStream DOMOutput DOMOutputStream DOMParser DOMParserFilter DOMReader DOMResourceResolver DOMSerializer DOMSerializerFilter DOMWriter ECMAScript ElementLS encoding 1, 2 filter 1, 2 FILTER_ACCEPT FILTER_INTERRUPT FILTER_REJECT FILTER_SKIP IETF RFC 2396 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 IETF RFC 2616 1, 2, 3, 4 IETF RFC 3023 1, 2 input 1, 2 ISO/IEC 10646 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Java JAXP 1, 2 load 1, 2 loadXML LSLoadEvent LSProgressEvent markupContent MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS MODE_SYNCHRONOUS namespace well-formed newDocument newLine OMG IDL parse parseURI parseWithContext position progress publicId read only node 1, 2 resolveResource saveXML SAX 1, 2, 3 schema 1, 2 startElement stringData systemId 1, 2 totalSize Unicode 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 well-formed 1, 2, 3, 4 whatToShow 1, 2 write writeToString writeURI XML 1.0 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 XML 1.1 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 XML Information set 1, 2 XML Namespaces 1, 2, 3 XML Namespaces 1.1 1, 2 XML Schema Part 1 1, 2