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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;
import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
import org.w3c.dom.DocumentFragment;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;
/**
* <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 Range {
/**
* Compare end boundary-point of <code>sourceRange</code> to end
* boundary-point of Range on which <code>compareBoundaryPoints</code>
* is invoked.
*/
public static final short END_TO_END = 2;
/**
* Compare end boundary-point of <code>sourceRange</code> to start
* boundary-point of Range on which <code>compareBoundaryPoints</code>
* is invoked.
*/
public static final short END_TO_START = 3;
/**
* Compare start boundary-point of <code>sourceRange</code> to end
* boundary-point of Range on which <code>compareBoundaryPoints</code>
* is invoked.
*/
public static final short START_TO_END = 1;
// CompareHow
/**
* Compare start boundary-point of <code>sourceRange</code> to start
* boundary-point of Range on which <code>compareBoundaryPoints</code>
* is invoked.
*/
public static final short START_TO_START = 0;
/**
* Duplicates the contents of a Range
*
* @return A DocumentFragment that contains content equivalent to this
* Range.
* @exception DOMException
* HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if a DocumentType node
* would be extracted into the new DocumentFragment. <br>
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public DocumentFragment cloneContents() throws DOMException;
/**
* Produces a new Range whose boundary-points are equal to the
* boundary-points of the Range.
*
* @return The duplicated Range.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public Range cloneRange() throws DOMException;
/**
* Collapse a Range onto one of its boundary-points
*
* @param toStartIf
* TRUE, collapses the Range onto its start; if FALSE,
* collapses it onto its end.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void collapse(boolean toStart) throws DOMException;
/**
* Compare the boundary-points of two Ranges in a document.
*
* @param howA
* code representing the type of comparison, as defined above.
* @param sourceRangeThe
* <code>Range</code> on which this current
* <code>Range</code> is compared to.
* @return -1, 0 or 1 depending on whether the corresponding
* boundary-point of the Range is respectively before, equal to,
* or after the corresponding boundary-point of
* <code>sourceRange</code>.
* @exception DOMException
* WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if the two Ranges are not in
* the same Document or DocumentFragment. <br>
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public short compareBoundaryPoints(short how, Range sourceRange) throws DOMException;
/**
* Removes the contents of a Range from the containing document or
* document fragment without returning a reference to the removed content.
*
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if any portion of
* the content of the Range is read-only or any of the
* nodes that contain any of the content of the Range are
* read-only. <br>
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void deleteContents() throws DOMException;
/**
* Called to indicate that the Range is no longer in use and that the
* implementation may relinquish any resources associated with this Range.
* Subsequent calls to any methods or attribute getters on this Range will
* result in a <code>DOMException</code> being thrown with an error code
* of <code>INVALID_STATE_ERR</code>.
*
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void detach() throws DOMException;
/**
* Moves the contents of a Range from the containing document or document
* fragment to a new DocumentFragment.
*
* @return A DocumentFragment containing the extracted contents.
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if any portion of
* the content of the Range is read-only or any of the
* nodes which contain any of the content of the Range are
* read-only. <br>
* HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if a DocumentType node
* would be extracted into the new DocumentFragment. <br>
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public DocumentFragment extractContents() throws DOMException;
/**
* TRUE if the Range is collapsed
*
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public boolean getCollapsed() throws DOMException;
/**
* The deepest common ancestor container of the Range's two
* boundary-points.
*
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public Node getCommonAncestorContainer() throws DOMException;
/**
* Node within which the Range ends
*
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public Node getEndContainer() throws DOMException;
/**
* Offset within the ending node of the Range.
*
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public int getEndOffset() throws DOMException;
/**
* Node within which the Range begins
*
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public Node getStartContainer() throws DOMException;
/**
* Offset within the starting node of the Range.
*
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public int getStartOffset() throws DOMException;
/**
* Inserts a node into the Document or DocumentFragment at the start of
* the Range. If the container is a Text node, this will be split at the
* start of the Range (as if the Text node's splitText method was
* performed at the insertion point) and the insertion will occur between
* the two resulting Text nodes. Adjacent Text nodes will not be
* automatically merged. If the node to be inserted is a DocumentFragment
* node, the children will be inserted rather than the DocumentFragment
* node itself.
*
* @param newNodeThe
* node to insert at the start of the Range
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if an ancestor
* container of the start of the Range is read-only. <br>
* WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code>newNode</code> and
* the container of the start of the Range were not created
* from the same document. <br>
* HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if the container of the
* start of the Range is of a type that does not allow
* children of the type of <code>newNode</code> or if
* <code>newNode</code> is an ancestor of the container.
* <br>
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if <code>newNode</code>
* is an Attr, Entity, Notation, or Document node.
*/
public void insertNode(Node newNode) throws DOMException, RangeException;
/**
* Select a node and its contents
*
* @param refNodeThe
* node to select.
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if an ancestor of
* <code>refNode</code> is an Entity, Notation or
* DocumentType node or if <code>refNode</code> is a
* Document, DocumentFragment, Attr, Entity, or Notation
* node.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void selectNode(Node refNode) throws RangeException, DOMException;
/**
* Select the contents within a node
*
* @param refNodeNode
* to select from
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if <code>refNode</code>
* or an ancestor of <code>refNode</code> is an Entity,
* Notation or DocumentType node.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void selectNodeContents(Node refNode) throws RangeException, DOMException;
/**
* Sets the attributes describing the end of a Range.
*
* @param refNodeThe
* <code>refNode</code> value. This parameter must be
* different from <code>null</code>.
* @param offsetThe
* <code>endOffset</code> value.
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if <code>refNode</code>
* or an ancestor of <code>refNode</code> is an Entity,
* Notation, or DocumentType node.
* @exception DOMException
* INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if <code>offset</code> is
* negative or greater than the number of child units in
* <code>refNode</code>. Child units are 16-bit units if
* <code>refNode</code> is a type of CharacterData node
* (e.g., a Text or Comment node) or a
* ProcessingInstruction node. Child units are Nodes in all
* other cases. <br>
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void setEnd(Node refNode, int offset) throws RangeException, DOMException;
/**
* Sets the end of a Range to be after a node
*
* @param refNodeRange
* ends after <code>refNode</code>.
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if the root container of
* <code>refNode</code> is not an Attr, Document or
* DocumentFragment node or if <code>refNode</code> is a
* Document, DocumentFragment, Attr, Entity, or Notation
* node.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void setEndAfter(Node refNode) throws RangeException, DOMException;
/**
* Sets the end position to be before a node.
*
* @param refNodeRange
* ends before <code>refNode</code>
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if the root container of
* <code>refNode</code> is not an Attr, Document, or
* DocumentFragment node or if <code>refNode</code> is a
* Document, DocumentFragment, Attr, Entity, or Notation
* node.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void setEndBefore(Node refNode) throws RangeException, DOMException;
/**
* Sets the attributes describing the start of the Range.
*
* @param refNodeThe
* <code>refNode</code> value. This parameter must be
* different from <code>null</code>.
* @param offsetThe
* <code>startOffset</code> value.
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if <code>refNode</code>
* or an ancestor of <code>refNode</code> is an Entity,
* Notation, or DocumentType node.
* @exception DOMException
* INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if <code>offset</code> is
* negative or greater than the number of child units in
* <code>refNode</code>. Child units are 16-bit units if
* <code>refNode</code> is a type of CharacterData node
* (e.g., a Text or Comment node) or a
* ProcessingInstruction node. Child units are Nodes in all
* other cases. <br>
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void setStart(Node refNode, int offset) throws RangeException, DOMException;
/**
* Sets the start position to be after a node
*
* @param refNodeRange
* starts after <code>refNode</code>
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if the root container of
* <code>refNode</code> is not an Attr, Document, or
* DocumentFragment node or if <code>refNode</code> is a
* Document, DocumentFragment, Attr, Entity, or Notation
* node.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void setStartAfter(Node refNode) throws RangeException, DOMException;
/**
* Sets the start position to be before a node
*
* @param refNodeRange
* starts before <code>refNode</code>
* @exception RangeException
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if the root container of
* <code>refNode</code> is not an Attr, Document, or
* DocumentFragment node or if <code>refNode</code> is a
* Document, DocumentFragment, Attr, Entity, or Notation
* node.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public void setStartBefore(Node refNode) throws RangeException, DOMException;
/**
* Reparents the contents of the Range to the given node and inserts the
* node at the position of the start of the Range.
*
* @param newParentThe
* node to surround the contents with.
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if an ancestor
* container of either boundary-point of the Range is
* read-only. <br>
* WRONG_DOCUMENT_ERR: Raised if <code> newParent</code>
* and the container of the start of the Range were not
* created from the same document. <br>
* HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR: Raised if the container of the
* start of the Range is of a type that does not allow
* children of the type of <code>newParent</code> or if
* <code>newParent</code> is an ancestor of the container
* or if <code>node</code> would end up with a child node
* of a type not allowed by the type of <code>node</code>.
* <br>
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
* @exception RangeException
* BAD_BOUNDARYPOINTS_ERR: Raised if the Range partially
* selects a non-text node. <br>
* INVALID_NODE_TYPE_ERR: Raised if <code> node</code> is
* an Attr, Entity, DocumentType, Notation, Document, or
* DocumentFragment node.
*/
public void surroundContents(Node newParent) throws DOMException, RangeException;
/**
* Returns the contents of a Range as a string. This string contains only
* the data characters, not any markup.
*
* @return The contents of the Range.
* @exception DOMException
* INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if <code>detach()</code> has
* already been invoked on this object.
*/
public String toString() throws DOMException;
}