libjava/org/w3c/dom/ranges/DocumentRange.java

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
 * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
 * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
 * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
 * PURPOSE.
 * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
 */

package org.w3c.dom.ranges;

/**
 * <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>.
 * @since DOM Level 2
 */
public interface DocumentRange {
    /**
     * This interface can be obtained from the object implementing the 
     * <code>Document</code> interface using binding-specific casting 
     * methods.
     * @return The initial state of the Range returned from this method is 
     *   such that both of its boundary-points are positioned at the 
     *   beginning of the corresponding Document, before any content. The 
     *   Range returned can only be used to select content associated with 
     *   this Document, or with DocumentFragments and Attrs for which this 
     *   Document is the <code>ownerDocument</code>.
     */
    public Range createRange();

}