01: /*
02: * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
03: * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
04: * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
05: * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
06: * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
07: * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
08: * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
09: * PURPOSE.
10: * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
11: */
12:
13: package org.w3c.dom.ranges;
14:
15: /**
16: * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification</a>.
17: * @since DOM Level 2
18: */
19: public interface DocumentRange {
20: /**
21: * This interface can be obtained from the object implementing the
22: * <code>Document</code> interface using binding-specific casting
23: * methods.
24: * @return The initial state of the Range returned from this method is
25: * such that both of its boundary-points are positioned at the
26: * beginning of the corresponding Document, before any content. The
27: * Range returned can only be used to select content associated with
28: * this Document, or with DocumentFragments and Attrs for which this
29: * Document is the <code>ownerDocument</code>.
30: */
31: public Range createRange();
32:
33: }
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