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package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.jaxp.validation;

import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMResult;

import com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.XMLDocumentHandler;
import com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.xni.XNIException;

import org.w3c.dom.CDATASection;
import org.w3c.dom.Comment;
import org.w3c.dom.DocumentType;
import org.w3c.dom.ProcessingInstruction;
import org.w3c.dom.Text;

/**
 * <p>An extension to XMLDocumentHandler for building DOM structures.</p>
 * 
 * @author Michael Glavassevich, IBM
 * @version $Id: DOMDocumentHandler.java,v 1.3 2007/07/19 04:38:53 ofung Exp $
 */
interface DOMDocumentHandler extends XMLDocumentHandler {
    
    /**
     * <p>Sets the <code>DOMResult</code> object which 
     * receives the constructed DOM nodes.</p>
     * 
     * @param result the object which receives the constructed DOM nodes
     */
    public void setDOMResult(DOMResult result);
    
    /**
     * A document type declaration.
     * 
     * @param node a DocumentType node
     *                 
     * @exception XNIException Thrown by handler to signal an error.
     */
    public void doctypeDecl(DocumentType node) throws XNIException;
    
    public void characters(Text node) throws XNIException;
    
    public void cdata(CDATASection node) throws XNIException;
    
    /**
     * A comment.
     * 
     * @param node a Comment node
     *               
     * @exception XNIException Thrown by application to signal an error.
     */
    public void comment(Comment node) throws XNIException;
    
    /**
     * A processing instruction. Processing instructions consist of a
     * target name and, optionally, text data. The data is only meaningful
     * to the application.
     * <p>
     * Typically, a processing instruction's data will contain a series
     * of pseudo-attributes. These pseudo-attributes follow the form of
     * element attributes but are <strong>not</strong> parsed or presented
     * to the application as anything other than text. The application is
     * responsible for parsing the data.
     * 
     * @param node a ProcessingInstruction node
     *               
     * @exception XNIException Thrown by handler to signal an error.
     */
    public void processingInstruction(ProcessingInstruction node) throws XNIException;
    
    public void setIgnoringCharacters(boolean ignore);
}
