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/*
* Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
* Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
* Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
* Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
* hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
* the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
* PURPOSE.
* See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
*/
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>.
*
* @since 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();
}