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41
42 package org.w3c.dom;
43
44 /**
45 * <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> is a callback interface that the DOM
46 * implementation can call when reporting errors that happens while
47 * processing XML data, or when doing some other processing (e.g. validating
48 * a document). A <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> object can be attached to a
49 * <code>Document</code> using the "error-handler" on the
50 * <code>DOMConfiguration</code> interface. If more than one error needs to
51 * be reported during an operation, the sequence and numbers of the errors
52 * passed to the error handler are implementation dependent.
53 * <p> The application that is using the DOM implementation is expected to
54 * implement this interface.
55 * <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>.
56 * @since DOM Level 3
57 */
58 public interface DOMErrorHandler {
59 /**
60 * This method is called on the error handler when an error occurs.
61 * <br> If an exception is thrown from this method, it is considered to be
62 * equivalent of returning <code>true</code>.
63 * @param error The error object that describes the error. This object
64 * may be reused by the DOM implementation across multiple calls to
65 * the <code>handleError</code> method.
66 * @return If the <code>handleError</code> method returns
67 * <code>false</code>, the DOM implementation should stop the current
68 * processing when possible. If the method returns <code>true</code>,
69 * the processing may continue depending on
70 * <code>DOMError.severity</code>.
71 */
72 public boolean handleError(DOMError error);
73
74 }
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