1 /* 2 * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium, 3 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de 4 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All 5 * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software 6 * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the 7 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 8 * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 9 * PURPOSE. 10 * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details. 11 */ 12 13 package org.w3c.dom.ranges; 14 15 /** 16 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification</a>. 17 * @since DOM Level 2 18 */ 19 public interface DocumentRange { 20 /** 21 * This interface can be obtained from the object implementing the 22 * <code>Document</code> interface using binding-specific casting 23 * methods. 24 * @return The initial state of the Range returned from this method is 25 * such that both of its boundary-points are positioned at the 26 * beginning of the corresponding Document, before any content. The 27 * Range returned can only be used to select content associated with 28 * this Document, or with DocumentFragments and Attrs for which this 29 * Document is the <code>ownerDocument</code>. 30 */ createRange()31 public Range createRange(); 32 33 } 34