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The Entity.java Java example source code

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package org.w3c.dom;

/**
 * This interface represents a known entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an
 * XML document. Note that this models the entity itself <em>not the entity declaration.
 * <p>The nodeName attribute that is inherited from
 * <code>Node contains the name of the entity.
 * <p>An XML processor may choose to completely expand entities before the
 * structure model is passed to the DOM; in this case there will be no
 * <code>EntityReference nodes in the document tree.
 * <p>XML does not mandate that a non-validating XML processor read and
 * process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in
 * parameter entities. This means that parsed entities declared in the
 * external subset need not be expanded by some classes of applications, and
 * that the replacement text of the entity may not be available. When the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204#intern-replacement'>
 * replacement text</a> is available, the corresponding Entity node's child list
 * represents the structure of that replacement value. Otherwise, the child
 * list is empty.
 * <p>DOM Level 3 does not support editing Entity nodes; if a
 * user wants to make changes to the contents of an <code>Entity,
 * every related <code>EntityReference node has to be replaced in the
 * structure model by a clone of the <code>Entity's contents, and
 * then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead.
 * <code>Entity nodes and all their descendants are readonly.
 * <p>An Entity node does not have any parent.
 * <p >Note: If the entity contains an unbound namespace prefix, the
 * <code>namespaceURI of the corresponding node in the
 * <code>Entity node subtree is null. The same is true
 * for <code>EntityReference nodes that refer to this entity, when
 * they are created using the <code>createEntityReference method of
 * the <code>Document interface.
 * <p>See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.
 */
public interface Entity extends Node {
    /**
     * The public identifier associated with the entity if specified, and
     * <code>null otherwise.
     */
    public String getPublicId();

    /**
     * The system identifier associated with the entity if specified, and
     * <code>null otherwise. This may be an absolute URI or not.
     */
    public String getSystemId();

    /**
     * For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. For
     * parsed entities, this is <code>null.
     */
    public String getNotationName();

    /**
     * An attribute specifying the encoding used for this entity at the time
     * of parsing, when it is an external parsed entity. This is
     * <code>null if it an entity from the internal subset or if it
     * is not known.
     * @since DOM Level 3
     */
    public String getInputEncoding();

    /**
     * An attribute specifying, as part of the text declaration, the encoding
     * of this entity, when it is an external parsed entity. This is
     * <code>null otherwise.
     * @since DOM Level 3
     */
    public String getXmlEncoding();

    /**
     * An attribute specifying, as part of the text declaration, the version
     * number of this entity, when it is an external parsed entity. This is
     * <code>null otherwise.
     * @since DOM Level 3
     */
    public String getXmlVersion();

}