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.ls; 14 15 import org.w3c.dom.DOMException; 16 17 /** 18 * <code>DOMImplementationLS</code> contains the factory methods for creating 19 * Load and Save objects. 20 * <p> The expectation is that an instance of the 21 * <code>DOMImplementationLS</code> interface can be obtained by using 22 * binding-specific casting methods on an instance of the 23 * <code>DOMImplementation</code> interface or, if the <code>Document</code> 24 * supports the feature <code>"Core"</code> version <code>"3.0"</code> 25 * defined in [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>DOM Level 3 Core</a>] 26 * , by using the method <code>DOMImplementation.getFeature</code> with 27 * parameter values <code>"LS"</code> (or <code>"LS-Async"</code>) and 28 * <code>"3.0"</code> (respectively). 29 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-LS-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load 30 and Save Specification</a>. 31 */ 32 public interface DOMImplementationLS { 33 // DOMImplementationLSMode 34 /** 35 * Create a synchronous <code>LSParser</code>. 36 */ 37 public static final short MODE_SYNCHRONOUS = 1; 38 /** 39 * Create an asynchronous <code>LSParser</code>. 40 */ 41 public static final short MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS = 2; 42 43 /** 44 * Create a new <code>LSParser</code>. The newly constructed parser may 45 * then be configured by means of its <code>DOMConfiguration</code> 46 * object, and used to parse documents by means of its <code>parse</code> 47 * method. 48 * @param mode The <code>mode</code> argument is either 49 * <code>MODE_SYNCHRONOUS</code> or <code>MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS</code>, if 50 * <code>mode</code> is <code>MODE_SYNCHRONOUS</code> then the 51 * <code>LSParser</code> that is created will operate in synchronous 52 * mode, if it's <code>MODE_ASYNCHRONOUS</code> then the 53 * <code>LSParser</code> that is created will operate in asynchronous 54 * mode. 55 * @param schemaType An absolute URI representing the type of the schema 56 * language used during the load of a <code>Document</code> using the 57 * newly created <code>LSParser</code>. Note that no lexical checking 58 * is done on the absolute URI. In order to create a 59 * <code>LSParser</code> for any kind of schema types (i.e. the 60 * LSParser will be free to use any schema found), use the value 61 * <code>null</code>. 62 * <p ><b>Note:</b> For W3C XML Schema [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/'>XML Schema Part 1</a>] 63 * , applications must use the value 64 * <code>"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"</code>. For XML DTD [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>], 65 * applications must use the value 66 * <code>"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml"</code>. Other Schema languages 67 * are outside the scope of the W3C and therefore should recommend an 68 * absolute URI in order to use this method. 69 * @return The newly created <code>LSParser</code> object. This 70 * <code>LSParser</code> is either synchronous or asynchronous 71 * depending on the value of the <code>mode</code> argument. 72 * <p ><b>Note:</b> By default, the newly created <code>LSParser</code> 73 * does not contain a <code>DOMErrorHandler</code>, i.e. the value of 74 * the "<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#parameter-error-handler'> 75 * error-handler</a>" configuration parameter is <code>null</code>. However, implementations 76 * may provide a default error handler at creation time. In that case, 77 * the initial value of the <code>"error-handler"</code> configuration 78 * parameter on the new <code>LSParser</code> object contains a 79 * reference to the default error handler. 80 * @exception DOMException 81 * NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR: Raised if the requested mode or schema type is 82 * not supported. 83 */ 84 public LSParser createLSParser(short mode, 85 String schemaType) 86 throws DOMException; 87 88 /** 89 * Create a new <code>LSSerializer</code> object. 90 * @return The newly created <code>LSSerializer</code> object. 91 * <p ><b>Note:</b> By default, the newly created 92 * <code>LSSerializer</code> has no <code>DOMErrorHandler</code>, i.e. 93 * the value of the <code>"error-handler"</code> configuration 94 * parameter is <code>null</code>. However, implementations may 95 * provide a default error handler at creation time. In that case, the 96 * initial value of the <code>"error-handler"</code> configuration 97 * parameter on the new <code>LSSerializer</code> object contains a 98 * reference to the default error handler. 99 */ 100 public LSSerializer createLSSerializer(); 101 102 /** 103 * Create a new empty input source object where 104 * <code>LSInput.characterStream</code>, <code>LSInput.byteStream</code> 105 * , <code>LSInput.stringData</code> <code>LSInput.systemId</code>, 106 * <code>LSInput.publicId</code>, <code>LSInput.baseURI</code>, and 107 * <code>LSInput.encoding</code> are null, and 108 * <code>LSInput.certifiedText</code> is false. 109 * @return The newly created input object. 110 */ 111 public LSInput createLSInput(); 112 113 /** 114 * Create a new empty output destination object where 115 * <code>LSOutput.characterStream</code>, 116 * <code>LSOutput.byteStream</code>, <code>LSOutput.systemId</code>, 117 * <code>LSOutput.encoding</code> are null. 118 * @return The newly created output object. 119 */ 120 public LSOutput createLSOutput(); 121 122 } 123
