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package org.w3c.dom;

/**

 *  <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> is a callback interface that the DOM

 * implementation can call when reporting errors that happens while

 * processing XML data, or when doing some other processing (e.g. validating

 * a document). A <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> object can be attached to a

 * <code>Document</code> using the "error-handler" on the

 * <code>DOMConfiguration</code> interface. If more than one error needs to

 * be reported during an operation, the sequence and numbers of the errors

 * passed to the error handler are implementation dependent.

 * <p> The application that is using the DOM implementation is expected to

 * implement this interface.

 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>.

 * @since DOM Level 3

 */

public interface DOMErrorHandler {

    /**

     * This method is called on the error handler when an error occurs.

     * <br> If an exception is thrown from this method, it is considered to be

     * equivalent of returning <code>true</code>.

     * @param error  The error object that describes the error. This object

     *   may be reused by the DOM implementation across multiple calls to

     *   the <code>handleError</code> method.

     * @return  If the <code>handleError</code> method returns

     *   <code>false</code>, the DOM implementation should stop the current

     *   processing when possible. If the method returns <code>true</code>,

     *   the processing may continue depending on

     *   <code>DOMError.severity</code>.

     */

    public boolean handleError(DOMError error);

}