jaxp/src/share/classes/org/w3c/dom/traversal/NodeIterator.java
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+/*
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+/*
+ * This file is available under and governed by the GNU General Public
+ * License version 2 only, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ * However, the following notice accompanied the original version of this
+ * file and, per its terms, should not be removed:
+ *
+ * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
+ * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
+ * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
+ * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
+ * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
+ * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
+ * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
+ * PURPOSE.
+ * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
+ */
+
+package org.w3c.dom.traversal;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
+
+/**
+ * <code>NodeIterators</code> are used to step through a set of nodes, e.g.
+ * the set of nodes in a <code>NodeList</code>, the document subtree
+ * governed by a particular <code>Node</code>, the results of a query, or
+ * any other set of nodes. The set of nodes to be iterated is determined by
+ * the implementation of the <code>NodeIterator</code>. DOM Level 2
+ * specifies a single <code>NodeIterator</code> implementation for
+ * document-order traversal of a document subtree. Instances of these
+ * <code>NodeIterators</code> are created by calling
+ * <code>DocumentTraversal</code><code>.createNodeIterator()</code>.
+ * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification</a>.
+ * @since DOM Level 2
+ */
+public interface NodeIterator {
+    /**
+     * The root node of the <code>NodeIterator</code>, as specified when it
+     * was created.
+     */
+    public Node getRoot();
+
+    /**
+     * This attribute determines which node types are presented via the
+     * <code>NodeIterator</code>. The available set of constants is defined
+     * in the <code>NodeFilter</code> interface.  Nodes not accepted by
+     * <code>whatToShow</code> will be skipped, but their children may still
+     * be considered. Note that this skip takes precedence over the filter,
+     * if any.
+     */
+    public int getWhatToShow();
+
+    /**
+     * The <code>NodeFilter</code> used to screen nodes.
+     */
+    public NodeFilter getFilter();
+
+    /**
+     *  The value of this flag determines whether the children of entity
+     * reference nodes are visible to the <code>NodeIterator</code>. If
+     * false, these children  and their descendants will be rejected. Note
+     * that this rejection takes precedence over <code>whatToShow</code> and
+     * the filter. Also note that this is currently the only situation where
+     * <code>NodeIterators</code> may reject a complete subtree rather than
+     * skipping individual nodes.
+     * <br>
+     * <br> To produce a view of the document that has entity references
+     * expanded and does not expose the entity reference node itself, use
+     * the <code>whatToShow</code> flags to hide the entity reference node
+     * and set <code>expandEntityReferences</code> to true when creating the
+     * <code>NodeIterator</code>. To produce a view of the document that has
+     * entity reference nodes but no entity expansion, use the
+     * <code>whatToShow</code> flags to show the entity reference node and
+     * set <code>expandEntityReferences</code> to false.
+     */
+    public boolean getExpandEntityReferences();
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the next node in the set and advances the position of the
+     * <code>NodeIterator</code> in the set. After a
+     * <code>NodeIterator</code> is created, the first call to
+     * <code>nextNode()</code> returns the first node in the set.
+     * @return The next <code>Node</code> in the set being iterated over, or
+     *   <code>null</code> if there are no more members in that set.
+     * @exception DOMException
+     *   INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if this method is called after the
+     *   <code>detach</code> method was invoked.
+     */
+    public Node nextNode()
+                         throws DOMException;
+
+    /**
+     * Returns the previous node in the set and moves the position of the
+     * <code>NodeIterator</code> backwards in the set.
+     * @return The previous <code>Node</code> in the set being iterated over,
+     *   or <code>null</code> if there are no more members in that set.
+     * @exception DOMException
+     *   INVALID_STATE_ERR: Raised if this method is called after the
+     *   <code>detach</code> method was invoked.
+     */
+    public Node previousNode()
+                             throws DOMException;
+
+    /**
+     * Detaches the <code>NodeIterator</code> from the set which it iterated
+     * over, releasing any computational resources and placing the
+     * <code>NodeIterator</code> in the INVALID state. After
+     * <code>detach</code> has been invoked, calls to <code>nextNode</code>
+     * or <code>previousNode</code> will raise the exception
+     * INVALID_STATE_ERR.
+     */
+    public void detach();
+
+}