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*
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* published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of
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*
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* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
* Lesser General Public License for more details.
*
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* License along with this software; if not, write to the Free
* Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
* 02110-1301 USA, or see the FSF site: http://www.fsf.org.
*/
package javax.xml.soap;
/** A representation of a node (element) in an XML document. This interface
* extnends the standard DOM Node interface with methods for getting and setting
* the value of a node, for getting and setting the parent of a node, and for
* removing a node
*
* @author Scott.Stark@jboss.org
* @version $Revision: 2897 $
*/
public interface Node extends org.w3c.dom.Node
{
/**
* Removes this Node object from the tree.
*/
public void detachNode();
/**
* Returns the parent element of this Node object.
* This method can throw an UnsupportedOperationException if the tree is not kept in memory.
* @return the SOAPElement object that is the parent of this Node object or null if this Node object is root
*/
public SOAPElement getParentElement();
/**
* Sets the parent of this Node object to the given SOAPElement object.
* @param parent the SOAPElement object to be set as the parent of this Node object
* @throws SOAPException if there is a problem in setting the parent to the given element
*/
public void setParentElement(SOAPElement parent) throws SOAPException;
/**
* Returns the value of this node if this is a Text node or the value of the immediate child of this node otherwise.
* If there is an immediate child of this Node that it is a Text node then it's value will be returned.
* If there is more than one Text node then the value of the first Text Node will be returned.
* Otherwise null is returned.
* @return a String with the text of this node if this is a Text node or the text contained by the first immediate
* child of this Node object that is a Text object if such a child exists; null otherwise.
*/
public String getValue();
/**
* If this is a Text node then this method will set its value, otherwise it sets the value of the immediate (Text)
* child of this node. The value of the immediate child of this node can be set only if, there is one child node and
* that node is a Text node, or if there are no children in which case a child Text node will be created.
* @param value A value string
* @throws IllegalStateException if the node is not a Text node and either has more than one child node or has a child node that is not a Text node.
*/
public void setValue(String value);
/**
* Notifies the implementation that this Node object is no longer being used by the application and that the
* implementation is free to reuse this object for nodes that may be created later.
* Calling the method recycleNode implies that the method detachNode has been called previously.
*/
public void recycleNode();
}
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