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42 package org.w3c.dom.ls;
43 
44 import org.w3c.dom.Node;
45 import org.w3c.dom.Element;
46 
47 /**
48  *  <code>LSParserFilter</code>s provide applications the ability to examine
49  * nodes as they are being constructed while parsing. As each node is
50  * examined, it may be modified or removed, or the entire parse may be
51  * terminated early.
52  * <p> At the time any of the filter methods are called by the parser, the
53  * owner Document and DOMImplementation objects exist and are accessible.
54  * The document element is never passed to the <code>LSParserFilter</code>
55  * methods, i.e. it is not possible to filter out the document element.
56  * <code>Document</code>, <code>DocumentType</code>, <code>Notation</code>,
57  * <code>Entity</code>, and <code>Attr</code> nodes are never passed to the
58  * <code>acceptNode</code> method on the filter. The child nodes of an
59  * <code>EntityReference</code> node are passed to the filter if the
60  * parameter "<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#parameter-entities'>
61  * entities</a>" is set to <code>false</code>. Note that, as described by the parameter "<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#parameter-entities'>
62  * entities</a>", unexpanded entity reference nodes are never discarded and are always
63  * passed to the filter.
64  * <p> All validity checking while parsing a document occurs on the source
65  * document as it appears on the input stream, not on the DOM document as it
66  * is built in memory. With filters, the document in memory may be a subset
67  * of the document on the stream, and its validity may have been affected by
68  * the filtering.
69  * <p> All default attributes must be present on elements when the elements
70  * are passed to the filter methods. All other default content must be
71  * passed to the filter methods.
72  * <p> DOM applications must not raise exceptions in a filter. The effect of
73  * throwing exceptions from a filter is DOM implementation dependent.
74  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-LS-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load
75 and Save Specification</a>.
76  */
77 public interface LSParserFilter {
78     // Constants returned by startElement and acceptNode
79     /**
80      * Accept the node.
81      */
82     public static final short FILTER_ACCEPT             = 1;
83     /**
84      * Reject the node and its children.
85      */
86     public static final short FILTER_REJECT             = 2;
87     /**
88      * Skip this single node. The children of this node will still be
89      * considered.
90      */
91     public static final short FILTER_SKIP               = 3;
92     /**
93      *  Interrupt the normal processing of the document.
94      */
95     public static final short FILTER_INTERRUPT          = 4;
96 
97     /**
98      *  The parser will call this method after each <code>Element</code> start
99      * tag has been scanned, but before the remainder of the
100      * <code>Element</code> is processed. The intent is to allow the
101      * element, including any children, to be efficiently skipped. Note that
102      * only element nodes are passed to the <code>startElement</code>
103      * function.
104      * <br>The element node passed to <code>startElement</code> for filtering
105      * will include all of the Element's attributes, but none of the
106      * children nodes. The Element may not yet be in place in the document
107      * being constructed (it may not have a parent node.)
108      * <br>A <code>startElement</code> filter function may access or change
109      * the attributes for the Element. Changing Namespace declarations will
110      * have no effect on namespace resolution by the parser.
111      * <br>For efficiency, the Element node passed to the filter may not be
112      * the same one as is actually placed in the tree if the node is
113      * accepted. And the actual node (node object identity) may be reused
114      * during the process of reading in and filtering a document.
115      * @param elementArg The newly encountered element. At the time this
116      *   method is called, the element is incomplete - it will have its
117      *   attributes, but no children.
118      * @return
119      * <ul>
120      * <li> <code>FILTER_ACCEPT</code> if the <code>Element</code> should
121      *   be included in the DOM document being built.
122      * </li>
123      * <li>
124      *   <code>FILTER_REJECT</code> if the <code>Element</code> and all of
125      *   its children should be rejected.
126      * </li>
127      * <li> <code>FILTER_SKIP</code> if the
128      *   <code>Element</code> should be skipped. All of its children are
129      *   inserted in place of the skipped <code>Element</code> node.
130      * </li>
131      * <li>
132      *   <code>FILTER_INTERRUPT</code> if the filter wants to stop the
133      *   processing of the document. Interrupting the processing of the
134      *   document does no longer guarantee that the resulting DOM tree is
135      *   XML well-formed. The <code>Element</code> is rejected.
136      * </li>
137      * </ul> Returning
138      *   any other values will result in unspecified behavior.
139      */
startElement(Element elementArg)140     public short startElement(Element elementArg);
141 
142     /**
143      * This method will be called by the parser at the completion of the
144      * parsing of each node. The node and all of its descendants will exist
145      * and be complete. The parent node will also exist, although it may be
146      * incomplete, i.e. it may have additional children that have not yet
147      * been parsed. Attribute nodes are never passed to this function.
148      * <br>From within this method, the new node may be freely modified -
149      * children may be added or removed, text nodes modified, etc. The state
150      * of the rest of the document outside this node is not defined, and the
151      * affect of any attempt to navigate to, or to modify any other part of
152      * the document is undefined.
153      * <br>For validating parsers, the checks are made on the original
154      * document, before any modification by the filter. No validity checks
155      * are made on any document modifications made by the filter.
156      * <br>If this new node is rejected, the parser might reuse the new node
157      * and any of its descendants.
158      * @param nodeArg The newly constructed element. At the time this method
159      *   is called, the element is complete - it has all of its children
160      *   (and their children, recursively) and attributes, and is attached
161      *   as a child to its parent.
162      * @return
163      * <ul>
164      * <li> <code>FILTER_ACCEPT</code> if this <code>Node</code> should
165      *   be included in the DOM document being built.
166      * </li>
167      * <li>
168      *   <code>FILTER_REJECT</code> if the <code>Node</code> and all of its
169      *   children should be rejected.
170      * </li>
171      * <li> <code>FILTER_SKIP</code> if the
172      *   <code>Node</code> should be skipped and the <code>Node</code>
173      *   should be replaced by all the children of the <code>Node</code>.
174      * </li>
175      * <li>
176      *   <code>FILTER_INTERRUPT</code> if the filter wants to stop the
177      *   processing of the document. Interrupting the processing of the
178      *   document does no longer guarantee that the resulting DOM tree is
179      *   XML well-formed. The <code>Node</code> is accepted and will be the
180      *   last completely parsed node.
181      * </li>
182      * </ul>
183      */
acceptNode(Node nodeArg)184     public short acceptNode(Node nodeArg);
185 
186     /**
187      *  Tells the <code>LSParser</code> what types of nodes to show to the
188      * method <code>LSParserFilter.acceptNode</code>. If a node is not shown
189      * to the filter using this attribute, it is automatically included in
190      * the DOM document being built. See <code>NodeFilter</code> for
191      * definition of the constants. The constants <code>SHOW_ATTRIBUTE</code>
192      * , <code>SHOW_DOCUMENT</code>, <code>SHOW_DOCUMENT_TYPE</code>,
193      * <code>SHOW_NOTATION</code>, <code>SHOW_ENTITY</code>, and
194      * <code>SHOW_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT</code> are meaningless here. Those nodes
195      * will never be passed to <code>LSParserFilter.acceptNode</code>.
196      * <br> The constants used here are defined in [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113'>DOM Level 2 Traversal and      Range</a>]
197      * .
198      */
getWhatToShow()199     public int getWhatToShow();
200 
201 }
202