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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2004, 2013, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
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+ *
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+ *
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+ *
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+ */
+
+package javax.xml.soap;
+
+/**
+ * A representation of a node (element) in an XML document.
+ * This interface extnends the standard DOM Node interface with methods for
+ * getting and setting the value of a node, for
+ * getting and setting the parent of a node, and for removing a node.
+ *
+ * @since 1.6
+ */
+public interface Node extends org.w3c.dom.Node {
+    /**
+     * Returns the value of this node if this is a <code>Text</code> node or the
+     * value of the immediate child of this node otherwise.
+     * If there is an immediate child of this <code>Node</code> that it is a
+     * <code>Text</code> node then it's value will be returned. If there is
+     * more than one <code>Text</code> node then the value of the first
+     * <code>Text</code> Node will be returned.
+     * Otherwise <code>null</code> is returned.
+     *
+     * @return a <code>String</code> with the text of this node if this is a
+     *          <code>Text</code> node or the text contained by the first
+     *          immediate child of this <code>Node</code> object that is a
+     *          <code>Text</code> object if such a child exists;
+     *          <code>null</code> otherwise.
+     */
+    public String getValue();
+
+    /**
+     * If this is a Text node then this method will set its value,
+     * otherwise it sets the value of  the immediate (Text) child of this node.
+     * The value of the immediate child of this node can be set only if, there is
+     * one child node and that node is a <code>Text</code> node, or if
+     * there are no children in which case a child <code>Text</code> node will be
+     * created.
+     *
+     * @exception IllegalStateException if the node is not a <code>Text</code>
+     *              node and either has more than one child node or has a child
+     *              node that is not a <code>Text</code> node.
+     *
+     * @since 1.6, SAAJ 1.2
+     */
+    public void setValue(String value);
+
+    /**
+     * Sets the parent of this <code>Node</code> object to the given
+     * <code>SOAPElement</code> object.
+     *
+     * @param parent the <code>SOAPElement</code> object to be set as
+     *       the parent of this <code>Node</code> object
+     *
+     * @exception SOAPException if there is a problem in setting the
+     *                          parent to the given element
+     * @see #getParentElement
+     */
+    public void setParentElement(SOAPElement parent) throws SOAPException;
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the parent element of this <code>Node</code> object.
+     * This method can throw an <code>UnsupportedOperationException</code>
+     * if the tree is not kept in memory.
+     *
+     * @return the <code>SOAPElement</code> object that is the parent of
+     *         this <code>Node</code> object or <code>null</code> if this
+     *         <code>Node</code> object is root
+     *
+     * @exception UnsupportedOperationException if the whole tree is not
+     *            kept in memory
+     * @see #setParentElement
+     */
+    public SOAPElement getParentElement();
+
+    /**
+     * Removes this <code>Node</code> object from the tree.
+     */
+    public void detachNode();
+
+    /**
+     * Notifies the implementation that this <code>Node</code>
+     * object is no longer being used by the application and that the
+     * implementation is free to reuse this object for nodes that may
+     * be created later.
+     * <P>
+     * Calling the method <code>recycleNode</code> implies that the method
+     * <code>detachNode</code> has been called previously.
+     */
+    public void recycleNode();
+
+}