| /* |
| * 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; |
| |
| /** |
| * <code>EntityReference</code> objects may be inserted into the structure |
| * model when an entity reference is in the source document, or when the |
| * user wishes to insert an entity reference. Note that character references |
| * and references to predefined entities are considered to be expanded by |
| * the HTML or XML processor so that characters are represented by their |
| * Unicode equivalent rather than by an entity reference. Moreover, the XML |
| * processor may completely expand references to entities while building the |
| * structure model, instead of providing <code>EntityReference</code> |
| * objects. If it does provide such objects, then for a given |
| * <code>EntityReference</code> node, it may be that there is no |
| * <code>Entity</code> node representing the referenced entity. If such an |
| * <code>Entity</code> exists, then the subtree of the |
| * <code>EntityReference</code> node is in general a copy of the |
| * <code>Entity</code> node subtree. However, this may not be true when an |
| * entity contains an unbound namespace prefix. In such a case, because the |
| * namespace prefix resolution depends on where the entity reference is, the |
| * descendants of the <code>EntityReference</code> node may be bound to |
| * different namespace URIs. |
| * <p>As for <code>Entity</code> nodes, <code>EntityReference</code> nodes and |
| * all their descendants are readonly. |
| * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification</a>. |
| */ |
| public interface EntityReference extends Node { |
| } |
