org.w3c.dom
Interface EntityReference
- All Superinterfaces:
- Node
- public interface EntityReference
- extends Node
EntityReference
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 EntityReference
objects. If it
does provide such objects, then for a given EntityReference
node, it may be that there is no Entity
node representing the
referenced entity. If such an Entity
exists, then the subtree
of the EntityReference
node is in general a copy of the
Entity
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 EntityReference
node may be bound to
different namespace URIs .
As for Entity
nodes, EntityReference
nodes and
all their descendants are readonly .
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Specification.
Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node |
ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE |
Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node |
appendChild, cloneNode, getAttributes, getChildNodes, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, supports |