org.w3c.dom
Interface EntityReference
- All Known Implementing Classes:
- EntityReferenceImpl
- 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 child
list of the EntityReference node is in general the same as
that of the Entity node. They may differ 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 with the Entity node, all descendants of the
EntityReference are readonly.
| 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,
hasAttributes,
hasChildNodes,
insertBefore,
normalize,
removeChild,
replaceChild,
setNodeValue,
setPrefix,
supports |