gomp-20050608-branch/libjava/classpath/external/w3c_dom/org/w3c/dom/ls/DOMImplementationLS.java

   1 /*
   2  * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
   3  *
   4  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
   5  * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
   6  * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
   7  * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
   8  * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
   9  *
  10  * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
  11  */
  12
  13 package org.w3c.dom.ls;
  14
  15 import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
  16
  17 /**
  18  *  <code>DOMImplementationLS</code> contains the factory methods for creating
  19  * Load and Save objects.
  20  * <p> The expectation is that an instance of the
  21  * <code>DOMImplementationLS</code> interface can be obtained by using
  22  * binding-specific casting methods on an instance of the
  23  * <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface or, if the <code>Document</code>
  24  * supports the feature <code>"Core"</code> version <code>"3.0"</code>
  25  * defined in [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>DOM Level 3 Core</a>]
  26  * , by using the method <code>DOMImplementation.getFeature</code> with
  27  * parameter values <code>"LS"</code> (or <code>"LS-Async"</code>) and
  28  * <code>"3.0"</code> (respectively).
  29  * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-LS-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load
  30 and Save Specification</a>.
  31  */
  32 public interface DOMImplementationLS {
  33     // DOMImplementationLSMode
  34     /**
  35      * Create a synchronous <code>LSParser</code>.
  36      */
  37     public static final short MODE_SYNCHRONOUS          = 1;
  38     /**
  39      * Create an asynchronous <code>LSParser</code>.
  40      */
  41     public static final short MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS         = 2;
  42
  43     /**
  44      * Create a new <code>LSParser</code>. The newly constructed parser may
  45      * then be configured by means of its <code>DOMConfiguration</code>
  46      * object, and used to parse documents by means of its <code>parse</code>
  47      *  method.
  48      * @param mode  The <code>mode</code> argument is either
  49      *   <code>MODE_SYNCHRONOUS</code> or <code>MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS</code>, if
  50      *   <code>mode</code> is <code>MODE_SYNCHRONOUS</code> then the
  51      *   <code>LSParser</code> that is created will operate in synchronous
  52      *   mode, if it's <code>MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS</code> then the
  53      *   <code>LSParser</code> that is created will operate in asynchronous
  54      *   mode.
  55      * @param schemaType  An absolute URI representing the type of the schema
  56      *   language used during the load of a <code>Document</code> using the
  57      *   newly created <code>LSParser</code>. Note that no lexical checking
  58      *   is done on the absolute URI. In order to create a
  59      *   <code>LSParser</code> for any kind of schema types (i.e. the
  60      *   LSParser will be free to use any schema found), use the value
  61      *   <code>null</code>.
  62      * <p ><b>Note:</b>    For W3C XML Schema [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/'>XML Schema Part 1</a>]
  63      *   , applications must use the value
  64      *   <code>"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"</code>. For XML DTD [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>],
  65      *   applications must use the value
  66      *   <code>"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml"</code>. Other Schema languages
  67      *   are outside the scope of the W3C and therefore should recommend an
  68      *   absolute URI in order to use this method.
  69      * @return  The newly created <code>LSParser</code> object. This
  70      *   <code>LSParser</code> is either synchronous or asynchronous
  71      *   depending on the value of the <code>mode</code> argument.
  72      * <p ><b>Note:</b>    By default, the newly created <code>LSParser</code>
  73      *   does not contain a <code>DOMErrorHandler</code>, i.e. the value of
  74      *   the "<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#parameter-error-handler'>
  75      *   error-handler</a>" configuration parameter is <code>null</code>. However, implementations
  76      *   may provide a default error handler at creation time. In that case,
  77      *   the initial value of the <code>"error-handler"</code> configuration
  78      *   parameter on the new <code>LSParser</code> object contains a
  79      *   reference to the default error handler.
  80      * @exception DOMException
  81      *    NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the requested mode or schema type is
  82      *   not supported.
  83      */
  84     public LSParser createLSParser(short mode,
  85                                    String schemaType)
  86                                    throws DOMException;
  87
  88     /**
  89      *  Create a new <code>LSSerializer</code> object.
  90      * @return The newly created <code>LSSerializer</code> object.
  91      * <p ><b>Note:</b>    By default, the newly created
  92      *   <code>LSSerializer</code> has no <code>DOMErrorHandler</code>, i.e.
  93      *   the value of the <code>"error-handler"</code> configuration
  94      *   parameter is <code>null</code>. However, implementations may
  95      *   provide a default error handler at creation time. In that case, the
  96      *   initial value of the <code>"error-handler"</code> configuration
  97      *   parameter on the new <code>LSSerializer</code> object contains a
  98      *   reference to the default error handler.
  99      */
 100     public LSSerializer createLSSerializer();
 101
 102     /**
 103      *  Create a new empty input source object where
 104      * <code>LSInput.characterStream</code>, <code>LSInput.byteStream</code>
 105      * , <code>LSInput.stringData</code> <code>LSInput.systemId</code>,
 106      * <code>LSInput.publicId</code>, <code>LSInput.baseURI</code>, and
 107      * <code>LSInput.encoding</code> are null, and
 108      * <code>LSInput.certifiedText</code> is false.
 109      * @return  The newly created input object.
 110      */
 111     public LSInput createLSInput();
 112
 113     /**
 114      *  Create a new empty output destination object where
 115      * <code>LSOutput.characterStream</code>,
 116      * <code>LSOutput.byteStream</code>, <code>LSOutput.systemId</code>,
 117      * <code>LSOutput.encoding</code> are null.
 118      * @return  The newly created output object.
 119      */
 120     public LSOutput createLSOutput();
 121
 122 }