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13 package org.w3c.dom.html2;
15 import org.w3c.dom.Document;
16 import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;
17 import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
20 * An <code>HTMLDocument</code> is the root of the HTML hierarchy and holds
21 * the entire content. Besides providing access to the hierarchy, it also
22 * provides some convenience methods for accessing certain sets of
23 * information from the document.
24 * <p>The following properties have been deprecated in favor of the
25 * corresponding ones for the <code>BODY</code> element:alinkColorbackground
26 * bgColorfgColorlinkColorvlinkColorIn DOM Level 2, the method
27 * <code>getElementById</code> is inherited from the <code>Document</code>
28 * interface where it was moved to.
29 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-DOM-Level-2-HTML-20030109'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 HTML Specification</a>.
31 public interface HTMLDocument extends Document {
33 * The title of a document as specified by the <code>TITLE</code> element
34 * in the head of the document.
36 public String getTitle();
38 * The title of a document as specified by the <code>TITLE</code> element
39 * in the head of the document.
41 public void setTitle(String title);
44 * Returns the URI [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>] of the page that linked to this page. The value is an
45 * empty string if the user navigated to the page directly (not through
46 * a link, but, for example, via a bookmark).
48 public String getReferrer();
51 * The domain name of the server that served the document, or
52 * <code>null</code> if the server cannot be identified by a domain
55 public String getDomain();
58 * The absolute URI [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>] of the document.
60 public String getURL();
63 * The element that contains the content for the document. In documents
64 * with <code>BODY</code> contents, returns the <code>BODY</code>
65 * element. In frameset documents, this returns the outermost
66 * <code>FRAMESET</code> element.
68 public HTMLElement getBody();
70 * The element that contains the content for the document. In documents
71 * with <code>BODY</code> contents, returns the <code>BODY</code>
72 * element. In frameset documents, this returns the outermost
73 * <code>FRAMESET</code> element.
75 public void setBody(HTMLElement body);
78 * A collection of all the <code>IMG</code> elements in a document. The
79 * behavior is limited to <code>IMG</code> elements for backwards
80 * compatibility. As suggested by [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224'>HTML 4.01</a>], to include images, authors may use
81 * the <code>OBJECT</code> element or the <code>IMG</code> element.
82 * Therefore, it is recommended not to use this attribute to find the
83 * images in the document but <code>getElementsByTagName</code> with
84 * HTML 4.01 or <code>getElementsByTagNameNS</code> with XHTML 1.0.
86 public HTMLCollection getImages();
89 * A collection of all the <code>OBJECT</code> elements that include
90 * applets and <code>APPLET</code> (deprecated) elements in a document.
92 public HTMLCollection getApplets();
95 * A collection of all <code>AREA</code> elements and anchor (
96 * <code>A</code>) elements in a document with a value for the
97 * <code>href</code> attribute.
99 public HTMLCollection getLinks();
102 * A collection of all the forms of a document.
104 public HTMLCollection getForms();
107 * A collection of all the anchor (<code>A</code>) elements in a document
108 * with a value for the <code>name</code> attribute. For reasons of
109 * backward compatibility, the returned set of anchors only contains
110 * those anchors created with the <code>name</code> attribute, not those
111 * created with the <code>id</code> attribute. Note that in [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801'>XHTML 1.0</a>], the
112 * <code>name</code> attribute (see section 4.10) has no semantics and
113 * is only present for legacy user agents: the <code>id</code> attribute
114 * is used instead. Users should prefer the iterator mechanisms provided
115 * by [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113'>DOM Level 2 Traversal</a>] instead.
117 public HTMLCollection getAnchors();
120 * This mutable string attribute denotes persistent state information
121 * that (1) is associated with the current frame or document and (2) is
122 * composed of information described by the <code>cookies</code>
123 * non-terminal of [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt'>IETF RFC 2965</a>], Section 4.2.2.
124 * <br> If no persistent state information is available for the current
125 * frame or document document, then this property's value is an empty
127 * <br> When this attribute is read, all cookies are returned as a single
128 * string, with each cookie's name-value pair concatenated into a list
129 * of name-value pairs, each list item being separated by a ';'
131 * <br> When this attribute is set, the value it is set to should be a
132 * string that adheres to the <code>cookie</code> non-terminal of [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt'>IETF RFC 2965</a>]; that
133 * is, it should be a single name-value pair followed by zero or more
134 * cookie attribute values. If no domain attribute is specified, then
135 * the domain attribute for the new value defaults to the host portion
136 * of an absolute URI [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>] of the current frame or document. If no path
137 * attribute is specified, then the path attribute for the new value
138 * defaults to the absolute path portion of the URI [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>] of the current
139 * frame or document. If no max-age attribute is specified, then the
140 * max-age attribute for the new value defaults to a user agent defined
141 * value. If a cookie with the specified name is already associated with
142 * the current frame or document, then the new value as well as the new
143 * attributes replace the old value and attributes. If a max-age
144 * attribute of 0 is specified for the new value, then any existing
145 * cookies of the specified name are removed from the cookie storage.
146 * See [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt'>IETF RFC 2965</a>] for the semantics of persistent state item attribute value
147 * pairs. The precise nature of a user agent session is not defined by
148 * this specification.
150 public String getCookie();
152 * This mutable string attribute denotes persistent state information
153 * that (1) is associated with the current frame or document and (2) is
154 * composed of information described by the <code>cookies</code>
155 * non-terminal of [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt'>IETF RFC 2965</a>], Section 4.2.2.
156 * <br> If no persistent state information is available for the current
157 * frame or document document, then this property's value is an empty
159 * <br> When this attribute is read, all cookies are returned as a single
160 * string, with each cookie's name-value pair concatenated into a list
161 * of name-value pairs, each list item being separated by a ';'
163 * <br> When this attribute is set, the value it is set to should be a
164 * string that adheres to the <code>cookie</code> non-terminal of [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt'>IETF RFC 2965</a>]; that
165 * is, it should be a single name-value pair followed by zero or more
166 * cookie attribute values. If no domain attribute is specified, then
167 * the domain attribute for the new value defaults to the host portion
168 * of an absolute URI [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>] of the current frame or document. If no path
169 * attribute is specified, then the path attribute for the new value
170 * defaults to the absolute path portion of the URI [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt'>IETF RFC 2396</a>] of the current
171 * frame or document. If no max-age attribute is specified, then the
172 * max-age attribute for the new value defaults to a user agent defined
173 * value. If a cookie with the specified name is already associated with
174 * the current frame or document, then the new value as well as the new
175 * attributes replace the old value and attributes. If a max-age
176 * attribute of 0 is specified for the new value, then any existing
177 * cookies of the specified name are removed from the cookie storage.
178 * See [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt'>IETF RFC 2965</a>] for the semantics of persistent state item attribute value
179 * pairs. The precise nature of a user agent session is not defined by
180 * this specification.
181 * @exception DOMException
182 * SYNTAX_ERR: If the new value does not adhere to the cookie syntax
183 * specified by [<a href='http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2965.txt'>IETF RFC 2965</a>].
185 public void setCookie(String cookie)
189 * Open a document stream for writing. If a document exists in the target,
190 * this method clears it. This method and the ones following allow a
191 * user to add to or replace the structure model of a document using
192 * strings of unparsed HTML. At the time of writing alternate methods
193 * for providing similar functionality for both HTML and XML documents
194 * were being considered (see [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-LS-20020725'>DOM Level 3 Load and Save</a>]).
199 * Closes a document stream opened by <code>open()</code> and forces
205 * Write a string of text to a document stream opened by
206 * <code>open()</code>. Note that the function will produce a document
207 * which is not necessarily driven by a DTD and therefore might be
208 * produce an invalid result in the context of the document.
209 * @param text The string to be parsed into some structure in the
210 * document structure model.
212 public void write(String text);
215 * Write a string of text followed by a newline character to a document
216 * stream opened by <code>open()</code>. Note that the function will
217 * produce a document which is not necessarily driven by a DTD and
218 * therefore might be produce an invalid result in the context of the
220 * @param text The string to be parsed into some structure in the
221 * document structure model.
223 public void writeln(String text);
226 * With [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224'>HTML 4.01</a>] documents, this method returns the (possibly empty) collection
227 * of elements whose <code>name</code> value is given by
228 * <code>elementName</code>. In [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-xhtml1-20020801'>XHTML 1.0</a>] documents, this methods only return the
229 * (possibly empty) collection of form controls with matching name. This
230 * method is case sensitive.
231 * @param elementName The <code>name</code> attribute value for an
233 * @return The matching elements.
235 public NodeList getElementsByName(String elementName);