org.w3c.dom
Interface EntityReference
- public abstract interface EntityReference
- extends Node
EntityReference objects may be inserted into the structure
model when an entity reference is in the source document, or when the user
wishes to insert an entity reference. Note that character references and
references to predefined entities are considered to be expanded by the
HTML or XML processor so that characters are represented by their Unicode
equivalent rather than by an entity reference. Moreover, the XML
processor may completely expand references to entities while building the
structure model, instead of providing EntityReference
objects. If it does provide such objects, then for a given
EntityReference node, it may be that there is no
Entity node representing the referenced entity; but if such
an Entity exists, then the child list of the
EntityReference node is the same as that of the
Entity node. As with the Entity node, all
descendants of the EntityReference are readonly.
The resolution of the children of the EntityReference (the
replacement value of the referenced Entity) may be lazily
evaluated; actions by the user (such as calling the
childNodes method on the EntityReference node)
are assumed to trigger the evaluation.
| Fields inherited from class org.w3c.dom.Node |
ATTRIBUTE_NODE,
CDATA_SECTION_NODE,
COMMENT_NODE,
DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE,
DOCUMENT_NODE,
DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE,
ELEMENT_NODE,
ENTITY_NODE,
ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE,
NOTATION_NODE,
PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE,
TEXT_NODE |
| Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node |
appendChild,
cloneNode,
getAttributes,
getChildNodes,
getFirstChild,
getLastChild,
getNextSibling,
getNodeName,
getNodeType,
getNodeValue,
getOwnerDocument,
getParentNode,
getPreviousSibling,
hasChildNodes,
insertBefore,
removeChild,
replaceChild,
setNodeValue |