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Interface Entity

All Superinterfaces:

Node

public interfaceEntity

extendsNode

This interface represents an entity, either parsed or unparsed, in an XML document. Note that this models the entity itself not the entity declaration.Entity declaration modeling has been left for a later Level of the DOM specification.

ThenodeName attribute that is inherited fromNode 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 noEntityReference 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 correspondingEntity node's child list represents the structure of that replacement text. Otherwise, the child list is empty.

The DOM Level 2 does not support editingEntity nodes; if a user wants to make changes to the contents of anEntity, every relatedEntityReference node has to be replaced in the structure model by a clone of theEntity's contents, and then the desired changes must be made to each of those clones instead.Entity nodes and all their descendants are readonly.

AnEntity node does not have any parent.If the entity contains an unbound namespace prefix, thenamespaceURI of the corresponding node in theEntity node subtree isnull. The same is true forEntityReference nodes that refer to this entity, when they are created using thecreateEntityReference method of theDocument interface. The DOM Level 2 does not support any mechanism to resolve namespace prefixes.

See also theDocument Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification.

getPublicId

public java.lang.StringgetPublicId()

The public identifier associated with the entity, if specified. If the public identifier was not specified, this isnull.

getSystemId

public java.lang.StringgetSystemId()

The system identifier associated with the entity, if specified. If the system identifier was not specified, this isnull.

getNotationName

public java.lang.StringgetNotationName()

For unparsed entities, the name of the notation for the entity. For parsed entities, this isnull.