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 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
 *
 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] 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.
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 */

package org.w3c.dom;

/**
 * The Text interface inherits from CharacterData 
 * and represents the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an Element or Attr. If there is no 
 * markup inside an element's content, the text is contained in a single 
 * object implementing the Text interface that is the only 
 * child of the element. If there is markup, it is parsed into the 
 * information items (elements, comments, etc.) and Text nodes 
 * that form the list of children of the element.
 * 

When a document is first made available via the DOM, there is only one * Text node for each block of text. Users may create adjacent * Text nodes that represent the contents of a given element * without any intervening markup, but should be aware that there is no way * to represent the separations between these nodes in XML or HTML, so they * will not (in general) persist between DOM editing sessions. The * Node.normalize() method merges any such adjacent * Text objects into a single node for each block of text. *

No lexical check is done on the content of a Text node * and, depending on its position in the document, some characters must be * escaped during serialization using character references; e.g. the * characters "<&" if the textual content is part of an element or of * an attribute, the character sequence "]]>" when part of an element, * the quotation mark character " or the apostrophe character ' when part of * an attribute. *

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification. */ public interface Text extends CharacterData { /** * Breaks this node into two nodes at the specified offset, * keeping both in the tree as siblings. After being split, this node * will contain all the content up to the offset point. A * new node of the same type, which contains all the content at and * after the offset point, is returned. If the original * node had a parent node, the new node is inserted as the next sibling * of the original node. When the offset is equal to the * length of this node, the new node has no data. * @param offset The 16-bit unit offset at which to split, starting from * 0. * @return The new node, of the same type as this node. * @exception DOMException * INDEX_SIZE_ERR: Raised if the specified offset is negative or greater * than the number of 16-bit units in data. *
NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this node is readonly. */ public Text splitText(int offset) throws DOMException; /** * Returns whether this text node contains * element content whitespace, often abusively called "ignorable whitespace". The text node is * determined to contain whitespace in element content during the load * of the document or if validation occurs while using * Document.normalizeDocument(). * @since DOM Level 3 */ public boolean isElementContentWhitespace(); /** * Returns all text of Text nodes logically-adjacent text * nodes to this node, concatenated in document order. *
For instance, in the example below wholeText on the * Text node that contains "bar" returns "barfoo", while on * the Text node that contains "foo" it returns "barfoo". * @since DOM Level 3 */ public String getWholeText(); /** * Replaces the text of the current node and all logically-adjacent text * nodes with the specified text. All logically-adjacent text nodes are * removed including the current node unless it was the recipient of the * replacement text. *
This method returns the node which received the replacement text. * The returned node is: *

    *
  • null, when the replacement text is * the empty string; *
  • *
  • the current node, except when the current node is * read-only; *
  • *
  • a new Text node of the same type ( * Text or CDATASection) as the current node * inserted at the location of the replacement. *
  • *
*
For instance, in the above example calling * replaceWholeText on the Text node that * contains "bar" with "yo" in argument results in the following: *
Where the nodes to be removed are read-only descendants of an * EntityReference, the EntityReference must * be removed instead of the read-only nodes. If any * EntityReference to be removed has descendants that are * not EntityReference, Text, or * CDATASection nodes, the replaceWholeText * method must fail before performing any modification of the document, * raising a DOMException with the code * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR. *
For instance, in the example below calling * replaceWholeText on the Text node that * contains "bar" fails, because the EntityReference node * "ent" contains an Element node which cannot be removed. * @param content The content of the replacing Text node. * @return The Text node created with the specified content. * @exception DOMException * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if one of the Text * nodes being replaced is readonly. * @since DOM Level 3 */ public Text replaceWholeText(String content) throws DOMException; }




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