1 /* 2 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, 3 * 4 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for 5 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This 6 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that 7 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 8 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 9 * 10 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 11 */ 12 13 package org.w3c.dom; 14 15 /** 16 * <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> is a callback interface that the DOM 17 * implementation can call when reporting errors that happens while 18 * processing XML data, or when doing some other processing (e.g. validating 19 * a document). A <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> object can be attached to a 20 * <code>Document</code> using the "error-handler" on the 21 * <code>DOMConfiguration</code> interface. If more than one error needs to 22 * be reported during an operation, the sequence and numbers of the errors 23 * passed to the error handler are implementation dependent. 24 * <p> The application that is using the DOM implementation is expected to 25 * implement this interface. 26 * <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>. 27 * @since DOM Level 3 28 */ 29 public interface DOMErrorHandler { 30 /** 31 * This method is called on the error handler when an error occurs. 32 * <br> If an exception is thrown from this method, it is considered to be 33 * equivalent of returning <code>true</code>. 34 * @param error The error object that describes the error. This object 35 * may be reused by the DOM implementation across multiple calls to 36 * the <code>handleError</code> method. 37 * @return If the <code>handleError</code> method returns 38 * <code>false</code>, the DOM implementation should stop the current 39 * processing when possible. If the method returns <code>true</code>, 40 * the processing may continue depending on 41 * <code>DOMError.severity</code>. 42 */ 43 public boolean handleError(DOMError error); 44 45 } 46
