Entity declaration modeling has been left for a
- * later Level of the DOM specification.
- * The nodeName attribute that is inherited from
- * Node contains the name of the entity.
- *
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
- * EntityReference nodes in the document tree.
- *
XML does not mandate that a non-validating XML processor read and
- * process entity declarations made in the external subset or declared in
- * external 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 value of the entity may not be available. When
- * the replacement value is available, the corresponding Entity
- * node's child list represents the structure of that replacement text.
- * Otherwise, the child list is empty.
- *
The DOM Level 2 does not support editing Entity nodes; if a
- * user wants to make changes to the contents of an Entity,
- * every related EntityReference node has to be replaced in the
- * structure model by a clone of the Entity's contents, and
- * then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead.
- * Entity nodes and all their descendants are readonly.
- *
An Entity node does not have any parent.If the entity
- * contains an unbound namespace prefix, the namespaceURI of
- * the corresponding node in the Entity node subtree is
- * null. The same is true for EntityReference
- * nodes that refer to this entity, when they are created using the
- * createEntityReference method of the Document
- * interface. The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve
- * namespace prefixes.
- *
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.
- */
-public interface Entity extends Node {
- /**
- * The public identifier associated with the entity, if specified. If the
- * public identifier was not specified, this is null.
- */
- public String getPublicId();
-
- /**
- * The system identifier associated with the entity, if specified. If the
- * system identifier was not specified, this is null.
- */
- public String getSystemId();
-
- /**
- * For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. For
- * parsed entities, this is null.
- */
- public String getNotationName();
-
-}