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* Copyright (c) 2001, 2004 IBM Corporation and others.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
* Jens Lukowski/Innoopract - initial renaming/restructuring
*
*******************************************************************************/
package org.w3c.dom.ranges;
/**
* <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>.
*
* @see DOM Level 2
*/
public interface DocumentRange {
/**
* This interface can be obtained from the object implementing the
* <code>Document</code> interface using binding-specific casting
* methods.
*
* @return The initial state of the Range returned from this method is
* such that both of its boundary-points are positioned at the
* beginning of the corresponding Document, before any content.
* The Range returned can only be used to select content
* associated with this Document, or with DocumentFragments and
* Attrs for which this Document is the <code>ownerDocument</code>.
*/
public Range createRange();
}