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package org.w3c.dom;
/**
* DOMError
is an interface that describes an error.
*
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.
* @since DOM Level 3
*/
public interface DOMError {
// ErrorSeverity
/**
* The severity of the error described by the DOMError
is
* warning. A SEVERITY_WARNING
will not cause the
* processing to stop, unless DOMErrorHandler.handleError()
* returns false
.
*/
public static final short SEVERITY_WARNING = 1;
/**
* The severity of the error described by the DOMError
is
* error. A SEVERITY_ERROR
may not cause the processing to
* stop if the error can be recovered, unless
* DOMErrorHandler.handleError()
returns false
.
*/
public static final short SEVERITY_ERROR = 2;
/**
* The severity of the error described by the DOMError
is
* fatal error. A SEVERITY_FATAL_ERROR
will cause the
* normal processing to stop. The return value of
* DOMErrorHandler.handleError()
is ignored unless the
* implementation chooses to continue, in which case the behavior
* becomes undefined.
*/
public static final short SEVERITY_FATAL_ERROR = 3;
/**
* The severity of the error, either SEVERITY_WARNING
,
* SEVERITY_ERROR
, or SEVERITY_FATAL_ERROR
.
*/
public short getSeverity();
/**
* An implementation specific string describing the error that occurred.
*/
public String getMessage();
/**
* A DOMString
indicating which related data is expected in
* relatedData
. Users should refer to the specification of
* the error in order to find its DOMString
type and
* relatedData
definitions if any.
*
Note: As an example,
* Document.normalizeDocument()
does generate warnings when
* the "split-cdata-sections" parameter is in use. Therefore, the method
* generates a SEVERITY_WARNING
with type
* "cdata-sections-splitted"
and the first
* CDATASection
node in document order resulting from the
* split is returned by the relatedData
attribute.
*/
public String getType();
/**
* The related platform dependent exception if any.
*/
public Object getRelatedException();
/**
* The related DOMError.type
dependent data if any.
*/
public Object getRelatedData();
/**
* The location of the error.
*/
public DOMLocator getLocation();
}