001 /* 002 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, 003 * 004 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for 005 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This 006 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that 007 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 008 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 009 * 010 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 011 */ 012 013 package org.w3c.dom; 014 015 /** 016 * <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> is a callback interface that the DOM 017 * implementation can call when reporting errors that happens while 018 * processing XML data, or when doing some other processing (e.g. validating 019 * a document). A <code>DOMErrorHandler</code> object can be attached to a 020 * <code>Document</code> using the "error-handler" on the 021 * <code>DOMConfiguration</code> interface. If more than one error needs to 022 * be reported during an operation, the sequence and numbers of the errors 023 * passed to the error handler are implementation dependent. 024 * <p> The application that is using the DOM implementation is expected to 025 * implement this interface. 026 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>. 027 * @since DOM Level 3 028 */ 029 public interface DOMErrorHandler { 030 /** 031 * This method is called on the error handler when an error occurs. 032 * <br> If an exception is thrown from this method, it is considered to be 033 * equivalent of returning <code>true</code>. 034 * @param error The error object that describes the error. This object 035 * may be reused by the DOM implementation across multiple calls to 036 * the <code>handleError</code> method. 037 * @return If the <code>handleError</code> method returns 038 * <code>false</code>, the DOM implementation should stop the current 039 * processing when possible. If the method returns <code>true</code>, 040 * the processing may continue depending on 041 * <code>DOMError.severity</code>. 042 */ 043 public boolean handleError(DOMError error); 044 045 }