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package org.w3c.dom.ls;

import org.w3c.dom.Node;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;

/**
 *  <code>LSParserFilters provide applications the ability to examine
 * nodes as they are being constructed while parsing. As each node is
 * examined, it may be modified or removed, or the entire parse may be
 * terminated early.
 * <p> At the time any of the filter methods are called by the parser, the
 * owner Document and DOMImplementation objects exist and are accessible.
 * The document element is never passed to the <code>LSParserFilter
 * methods, i.e. it is not possible to filter out the document element.
 * <code>Document, DocumentType, Notation,
 * <code>Entity, and Attr nodes are never passed to the
 * <code>acceptNode method on the filter. The child nodes of an
 * <code>EntityReference node are passed to the filter if the
 * parameter "<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#parameter-entities'>
 * entities</a>" is set to false. Note that, as described by the parameter "
 * entities</a>", unexpanded entity reference nodes are never discarded and are always
 * passed to the filter.
 * <p> All validity checking while parsing a document occurs on the source
 * document as it appears on the input stream, not on the DOM document as it
 * is built in memory. With filters, the document in memory may be a subset
 * of the document on the stream, and its validity may have been affected by
 * the filtering.
 * <p> All default attributes must be present on elements when the elements
 * are passed to the filter methods. All other default content must be
 * passed to the filter methods.
 * <p> DOM applications must not raise exceptions in a filter. The effect of
 * throwing exceptions from a filter is DOM implementation dependent.
 * <p>See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load
and Save Specification</a>.
 */
public interface LSParserFilter {
    // Constants returned by startElement and acceptNode
    /**
     * Accept the node.
     */
    public static final short FILTER_ACCEPT             = 1;
    /**
     * Reject the node and its children.
     */
    public static final short FILTER_REJECT             = 2;
    /**
     * Skip this single node. The children of this node will still be
     * considered.
     */
    public static final short FILTER_SKIP               = 3;
    /**
     *  Interrupt the normal processing of the document.
     */
    public static final short FILTER_INTERRUPT          = 4;

    /**
     *  The parser will call this method after each <code>Element start
     * tag has been scanned, but before the remainder of the
     * <code>Element is processed. The intent is to allow the
     * element, including any children, to be efficiently skipped. Note that
     * only element nodes are passed to the <code>startElement
     * function.
     * <br>The element node passed to startElement for filtering
     * will include all of the Element's attributes, but none of the
     * children nodes. The Element may not yet be in place in the document
     * being constructed (it may not have a parent node.)
     * <br>A startElement filter function may access or change
     * the attributes for the Element. Changing Namespace declarations will
     * have no effect on namespace resolution by the parser.
     * <br>For efficiency, the Element node passed to the filter may not be
     * the same one as is actually placed in the tree if the node is
     * accepted. And the actual node (node object identity) may be reused
     * during the process of reading in and filtering a document.
     * @param elementArg The newly encountered element. At the time this
     *   method is called, the element is incomplete - it will have its
     *   attributes, but no children.
     * @return
     * <ul>
     * <li> FILTER_ACCEPT if the Element should
     *   be included in the DOM document being built.
     * </li>
     * <li>
     *   <code>FILTER_REJECT if the Element and all of
     *   its children should be rejected.
     * </li>
     * <li> FILTER_SKIP if the
     *   <code>Element should be skipped. All of its children are
     *   inserted in place of the skipped <code>Element node.
     * </li>
     * <li>
     *   <code>FILTER_INTERRUPT if the filter wants to stop the
     *   processing of the document. Interrupting the processing of the
     *   document does no longer guarantee that the resulting DOM tree is
     *   XML well-formed. The <code>Element is rejected.
     * </li>
     * </ul> Returning
     *   any other values will result in unspecified behavior.
     */
    public short startElement(Element elementArg);

    /**
     * This method will be called by the parser at the completion of the
     * parsing of each node. The node and all of its descendants will exist
     * and be complete. The parent node will also exist, although it may be
     * incomplete, i.e. it may have additional children that have not yet
     * been parsed. Attribute nodes are never passed to this function.
     * <br>From within this method, the new node may be freely modified -
     * children may be added or removed, text nodes modified, etc. The state
     * of the rest of the document outside this node is not defined, and the
     * affect of any attempt to navigate to, or to modify any other part of
     * the document is undefined.
     * <br>For validating parsers, the checks are made on the original
     * document, before any modification by the filter. No validity checks
     * are made on any document modifications made by the filter.
     * <br>If this new node is rejected, the parser might reuse the new node
     * and any of its descendants.
     * @param nodeArg The newly constructed element. At the time this method
     *   is called, the element is complete - it has all of its children
     *   (and their children, recursively) and attributes, and is attached
     *   as a child to its parent.
     * @return
     * <ul>
     * <li> FILTER_ACCEPT if this Node should
     *   be included in the DOM document being built.
     * </li>
     * <li>
     *   <code>FILTER_REJECT if the Node and all of its
     *   children should be rejected.
     * </li>
     * <li> FILTER_SKIP if the
     *   <code>Node should be skipped and the Node
     *   should be replaced by all the children of the <code>Node.
     * </li>
     * <li>
     *   <code>FILTER_INTERRUPT if the filter wants to stop the
     *   processing of the document. Interrupting the processing of the
     *   document does no longer guarantee that the resulting DOM tree is
     *   XML well-formed. The <code>Node is accepted and will be the
     *   last completely parsed node.
     * </li>
     * </ul>
     */
    public short acceptNode(Node nodeArg);

    /**
     *  Tells the <code>LSParser what types of nodes to show to the
     * method <code>LSParserFilter.acceptNode. If a node is not shown
     * to the filter using this attribute, it is automatically included in
     * the DOM document being built. See <code>NodeFilter for
     * definition of the constants. The constants <code>SHOW_ATTRIBUTE
     * , <code>SHOW_DOCUMENT, SHOW_DOCUMENT_TYPE,
     * <code>SHOW_NOTATION, SHOW_ENTITY, and
     * <code>SHOW_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT are meaningless here. Those nodes
     * will never be passed to <code>LSParserFilter.acceptNode.
     * <br> The constants used here are defined in [DOM Level 2 Traversal and      Range]
     * .
     */
    public int getWhatToShow();

}