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1 /*
2 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
3 *
4 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
5 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
6 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
7 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
8 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
9 *
10 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
11 */
13 package org.w3c.dom.views;
15 /**
16 * The <code>Item</code> represents information to be fetched by a
17 * <code>Segment</code>.
18 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/NOTE-DOM-Level-3-Views-20040226'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Views and Formatting
19 Specification</a>.
20 * @since DOM Level 3
21 */
22 public interface Item {
23 /**
24 * The <code>exists</code> boolean of a <code>Segment</code>, initially
25 * set to false during creation, is set after an attempt to fetch the
26 * values of a <code>Item</code> to indicate whether or not the required
27 * data was present. A true value indicates that it was.
28 */
29 public boolean getExists();
31 /**
32 * The name of a property of the matched <code>Segment</code> to be
33 * fetched, which is specified during construction.
34 */
35 public String getName();
37 }