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286N/Apackage org.w3c.dom;
286N/A
286N/A/**
286N/A * <code>EntityReference</code> nodes may be used to represent an entity
286N/A * reference in the tree. Note that character references and references to
286N/A * predefined entities are considered to be expanded by the HTML or XML
286N/A * processor so that characters are represented by their Unicode equivalent
286N/A * rather than by an entity reference. Moreover, the XML processor may
286N/A * completely expand references to entities while building the
286N/A * <code>Document</code>, instead of providing <code>EntityReference</code>
286N/A * nodes. If it does provide such nodes, then for an
286N/A * <code>EntityReference</code> node that represents a reference to a known
286N/A * entity an <code>Entity</code> exists, and the subtree of the
286N/A * <code>EntityReference</code> node is a copy of the <code>Entity</code>
286N/A * node subtree. However, the latter may not be true when an entity contains
286N/A * an unbound namespace prefix. In such a case, because the namespace prefix
286N/A * resolution depends on where the entity reference is, the descendants of
286N/A * the <code>EntityReference</code> node may be bound to different namespace
286N/A * URIs. When an <code>EntityReference</code> node represents a reference to
286N/A * an unknown entity, the node has no children and its replacement value,
286N/A * when used by <code>Attr.value</code> for example, is empty.
286N/A * <p>As for <code>Entity</code> nodes, <code>EntityReference</code> nodes and
286N/A * all their descendants are readonly.
286N/A * <p ><b>Note:</b> <code>EntityReference</code> nodes may cause element
286N/A * content and attribute value normalization problems when, such as in XML
286N/A * 1.0 and XML Schema, the normalization is performed after entity reference
286N/A * are expanded.
286N/A * <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>.
286N/A */
286N/Apublic interface EntityReference extends Node {
286N/A}