libjava/org/w3c/dom/ranges/DocumentRange.java

   1 /*
   2  * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
   3  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
   4  * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
   5  * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
   6  * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
   7  * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
   8  * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
   9  * PURPOSE.
  10  * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
  11  */
  12
  13 package org.w3c.dom.ranges;
  14
  15 /**
  16  * <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>.
  17  * @since DOM Level 2
  18  */
  19 public interface DocumentRange {
  20     /**
  21      * This interface can be obtained from the object implementing the
  22      * <code>Document</code> interface using binding-specific casting
  23      * methods.
  24      * @return The initial state of the Range returned from this method is
  25      *   such that both of its boundary-points are positioned at the
  26      *   beginning of the corresponding Document, before any content. The
  27      *   Range returned can only be used to select content associated with
  28      *   this Document, or with DocumentFragments and Attrs for which this
  29      *   Document is the <code>ownerDocument</code>.
  30      */
  31     public Range createRange();
  32
  33 }