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 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
 * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
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package org.w3c.dom.xpath;


import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * The <code>XPathNamespace</code> interface is returned by 
 * <code>XPathResult</code> interfaces to represent the XPath namespace node 
 * type that DOM lacks. There is no public constructor for this node type. 
 * Attempts to place it into a hierarchy or a NamedNodeMap result in a 
 * <code>DOMException</code> with the code <code>HIERARCHY_REQUEST_ERR</code>
 * . This node is read only, so methods or setting of attributes that would 
 * mutate the node result in a DOMException with the code 
 * <code>NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR</code>.
 * <p>The core specification describes attributes of the <code>Node</code> 
 * interface that are different for different node node types but does not 
 * describe <code>XPATH_NAMESPACE_NODE</code>, so here is a description of 
 * those attributes for this node type. All attributes of <code>Node</code> 
 * not described in this section have a <code>null</code> or 
 * <code>false</code> value.
 * <p><code>ownerDocument</code> matches the <code>ownerDocument</code> of the 
 * <code>ownerElement</code> even if the element is later adopted.
 * <p><code>prefix</code> is the prefix of the namespace represented by the 
 * node.
 * <p><code>nodeName</code> is the same as <code>prefix</code>.
 * <p><code>nodeType</code> is equal to <code>XPATH_NAMESPACE_NODE</code>.
 * <p><code>namespaceURI</code> is the namespace URI of the namespace 
 * represented by the node.
 * <p><code>adoptNode</code>, <code>cloneNode</code>, and 
 * <code>importNode</code> fail on this node type by raising a 
 * <code>DOMException</code> with the code <code>NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR</code>.In 
 * future versions of the XPath specification, the definition of a namespace 
 * node may be changed incomatibly, in which case incompatible changes to 
 * field values may be required to implement versions beyond XPath 1.0.
 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/2002/08/WD-DOM-Level-3-XPath-20020820'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 XPath Specification</a>.
 */
public interface XPathNamespace extends Node {
    // XPathNodeType
    /**
     * The node is a <code>Namespace</code>.
     */
    public static final short XPATH_NAMESPACE_NODE      = 13;

    /**
     * The <code>Element</code> on which the namespace was in scope when it 
     * was requested. This does not change on a returned namespace node even 
     * if the document changes such that the namespace goes out of scope on 
     * that element and this node is no longer found there by XPath.
     */
    public Element getOwnerElement();

}