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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</em> the entity declaration.

 * <p>The <code>nodeName</code> attribute that is inherited from

 * <code>Node</code> 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</code> 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 <code>Entity</code> 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 <code>Entity</code> nodes; if a

 * user wants to make changes to the contents of an <code>Entity</code>,

 * every related <code>EntityReference</code> node has to be replaced in the

 * structure model by a clone of the <code>Entity</code>'s contents, and

 * then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead.

 * <code>Entity</code> nodes and all their descendants are readonly.

 * <p>An <code>Entity</code> node does not have any parent.

 * <p ><b>Note:</b> If the entity contains an unbound namespace prefix, the

 * <code>namespaceURI</code> of the corresponding node in the

 * <code>Entity</code> node subtree is <code>null</code>. The same is true

 * for <code>EntityReference</code> nodes that refer to this entity, when

 * they are created using the <code>createEntityReference</code> method of

 * the <code>Document</code> 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>.

 */

public interface Entity extends Node {

    /**

     * The public identifier associated with the entity if specified, and

     * <code>null</code> otherwise.

     */

    public String getPublicId();

    /**

     * The system identifier associated with the entity if specified, and

     * <code>null</code> 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</code>.

     */

    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</code> if it an entity from the internal subset or if it

     * is not known.

     * @since 1.5, 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</code> otherwise.

     * @since 1.5, 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</code> otherwise.

     * @since 1.5, DOM Level 3

     */

    public String getXmlVersion();

}