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41
42package org.w3c.dom.ls;
43
44import org.w3c.dom.traversal.NodeFilter;
45
46/**
47 *  <code>LSSerializerFilter</code>s provide applications the ability to
48 * examine nodes as they are being serialized and decide what nodes should
49 * be serialized or not. The <code>LSSerializerFilter</code> interface is
50 * based on the <code>NodeFilter</code> interface defined in [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113'>DOM Level 2 Traversal and      Range</a>]
51 * .
52 * <p> <code>Document</code>, <code>DocumentType</code>,
53 * <code>DocumentFragment</code>, <code>Notation</code>, <code>Entity</code>
54 * , and children of <code>Attr</code> nodes are not passed to the filter.
55 * The child nodes of an <code>EntityReference</code> node are only passed
56 * to the filter if the <code>EntityReference</code> node is skipped by the
57 * method <code>LSParserFilter.acceptNode()</code>.
58 * <p> When serializing an <code>Element</code>, the element is passed to the
59 * filter before any of its attributes are passed to the filter. Namespace
60 * declaration attributes, and default attributes (except in the case when "
61 * discard-default-content" is set to <code>false</code>), are never passed
62 * to the filter.
63 * <p> The result of any attempt to modify a node passed to a
64 * <code>LSSerializerFilter</code> is implementation dependent.
65 * <p> DOM applications must not raise exceptions in a filter. The effect of
66 * throwing exceptions from a filter is DOM implementation dependent.
67 * <p> For efficiency, a node passed to the filter may not be the same as the
68 * one that is actually in the tree. And the actual node (node object
69 * identity) may be reused during the process of filtering and serializing a
70 * document.
71 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-LS-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load
72and Save Specification</a>.
73 *
74 * @since 1.5
75 */
76public interface LSSerializerFilter extends NodeFilter {
77    /**
78     *  Tells the <code>LSSerializer</code> what types of nodes to show to the
79     * filter. If a node is not shown to the filter using this attribute, it
80     * is automatically serialized. See <code>NodeFilter</code> for
81     * definition of the constants. The constants <code>SHOW_DOCUMENT</code>
82     * , <code>SHOW_DOCUMENT_TYPE</code>, <code>SHOW_DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT</code>
83     * , <code>SHOW_NOTATION</code>, and <code>SHOW_ENTITY</code> are
84     * meaningless here, such nodes will never be passed to a
85     * <code>LSSerializerFilter</code>.
86     * <br> Unlike [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113'>DOM Level 2 Traversal and      Range</a>]
87     * , the <code>SHOW_ATTRIBUTE</code> constant indicates that the
88     * <code>Attr</code> nodes are shown and passed to the filter.
89     * <br> The constants used here are defined in [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113'>DOM Level 2 Traversal and      Range</a>]
90     * .
91     */
92    public int getWhatToShow();
93
94}
95