001/* 002 * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium, 003 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de 004 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All 005 * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software 006 * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the 007 * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even 008 * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR 009 * PURPOSE. 010 * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details. 011 */ 012 013package org.w3c.dom.ranges; 014 015/** 016 * <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>. 017 * @since DOM Level 2 018 */ 019public interface DocumentRange { 020 /** 021 * This interface can be obtained from the object implementing the 022 * <code>Document</code> interface using binding-specific casting 023 * methods. 024 * @return The initial state of the Range returned from this method is 025 * such that both of its boundary-points are positioned at the 026 * beginning of the corresponding Document, before any content. The 027 * Range returned can only be used to select content associated with 028 * this Document, or with DocumentFragments and Attrs for which this 029 * Document is the <code>ownerDocument</code>. 030 */ 031 public Range createRange(); 032 033}