content: /*
   * 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.smil;
  
  import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
  
  /**
   *  A <code>parallel</code> container defines a simple parallel time grouping 
   * in which multiple elements can play back at the same time.  It may have to 
   * specify a repeat iteration. (?) 
   */
  public interface ElementParallelTimeContainer extends ElementTimeContainer {
      /**
       *  Controls the end of the container.  Need to address thr id-ref value. 
       * @exception DOMException
       *    NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised if this attribute is readonly. 
       */
      public String getEndSync();
      public void setEndSync(String endSync)
                                          throws DOMException;
  
      /**
       *  This method returns the implicit duration in seconds. 
       * @return  The implicit duration in seconds or -1 if the implicit is 
       *   unknown (indefinite?). 
       */
      public float getImplicitDuration();
  
  }
  
  