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      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  * Each <code>Document</code> has a <code>doctype</code> attribute whose value
     17  * is either <code>null</code> or a <code>DocumentType</code> object. The
     18  * <code>DocumentType</code> interface in the DOM Core provides an interface
     19  * to the list of entities that are defined for the document, and little
     20  * else because the effect of namespaces and the various XML schema efforts
     21  * on DTD representation are not clearly understood as of this writing.
     22  * <p>DOM Level 3 doesn't support editing <code>DocumentType</code> nodes.
     23  * <code>DocumentType</code> nodes are read-only.
     24  * <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>.
     25  */
     26 public interface DocumentType extends Node {
     27     /**
     28      * The name of DTD; i.e., the name immediately following the
     29      * <code>DOCTYPE</code> keyword.
     30      */
     31     public String getName();
     32 
     33     /**
     34      * A <code>NamedNodeMap</code> containing the general entities, both
     35      * external and internal, declared in the DTD. Parameter entities are
     36      * not contained. Duplicates are discarded. For example in:
     37      * <pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE
     38      * ex SYSTEM "ex.dtd" [ &lt;!ENTITY foo "foo"&gt; &lt;!ENTITY bar
     39      * "bar"&gt; &lt;!ENTITY bar "bar2"&gt; &lt;!ENTITY % baz "baz"&gt;
     40      * ]&gt; &lt;ex/&gt;</pre>
     41      *  the interface provides access to <code>foo</code>
     42      * and the first declaration of <code>bar</code> but not the second
     43      * declaration of <code>bar</code> or <code>baz</code>. Every node in
     44      * this map also implements the <code>Entity</code> interface.
     45      * <br>The DOM Level 2 does not support editing entities, therefore
     46      * <code>entities</code> cannot be altered in any way.
     47      */
     48     public NamedNodeMap getEntities();
     49 
     50     /**
     51      * A <code>NamedNodeMap</code> containing the notations declared in the
     52      * DTD. Duplicates are discarded. Every node in this map also implements
     53      * the <code>Notation</code> interface.
     54      * <br>The DOM Level 2 does not support editing notations, therefore
     55      * <code>notations</code> cannot be altered in any way.
     56      */
     57     public NamedNodeMap getNotations();
     58 
     59     /**
     60      * The public identifier of the external subset.
     61      * @since DOM Level 2
     62      */
     63     public String getPublicId();
     64 
     65     /**
     66      * The system identifier of the external subset. This may be an absolute
     67      * URI or not.
     68      * @since DOM Level 2
     69      */
     70     public String getSystemId();
     71 
     72     /**
     73      * The internal subset as a string, or <code>null</code> if there is none.
     74      * This is does not contain the delimiting square brackets.
     75      * <p ><b>Note:</b> The actual content returned depends on how much
     76      * information is available to the implementation. This may vary
     77      * depending on various parameters, including the XML processor used to
     78      * build the document.
     79      * @since DOM Level 2
     80      */
     81     public String getInternalSubset();
     82 
     83 }
     84