content: /*
   * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
   *
   * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
   * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
   * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] 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.
   *
   * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
   */
  
  package mf.org.w3c.dom;
  
  /**
   * <code>DOMError</code> is an interface that describes an error.
   * <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>.
   *
   * @since DOM Level 3
   */
  public interface DOMError {
      // ErrorSeverity
      /**
       * The severity of the error described by the <code>DOMError</code> is
       * warning. A <code>SEVERITY_WARNING</code> will not cause the
       * processing to stop, unless <code>DOMErrorHandler.handleError()</code>
       * returns <code>false</code>.
       */
      short SEVERITY_WARNING = 1;
      /**
       * The severity of the error described by the <code>DOMError</code> is
       * error. A <code>SEVERITY_ERROR</code> may not cause the processing to
       * stop if the error can be recovered, unless
       * <code>DOMErrorHandler.handleError()</code> returns <code>false</code>.
       */
      short SEVERITY_ERROR = 2;
      /**
       * The severity of the error described by the <code>DOMError</code> is
       * fatal error. A <code>SEVERITY_FATAL_ERROR</code> will cause the
       * normal processing to stop. The return value of
       * <code>DOMErrorHandler.handleError()</code> is ignored unless the
       * implementation chooses to continue, in which case the behavior
       * becomes undefined.
       */
      short SEVERITY_FATAL_ERROR = 3;
  
      /**
       * The severity of the error, either <code>SEVERITY_WARNING</code>,
       * <code>SEVERITY_ERROR</code>, or <code>SEVERITY_FATAL_ERROR</code>.
       */
      short getSeverity();
  
      /**
       * An implementation specific string describing the error that occurred.
       */
      String getMessage();
  
      /**
       * A <code>DOMString</code> indicating which related data is expected in
       * <code>relatedData</code>. Users should refer to the specification of
       * the error in order to find its <code>DOMString</code> type and
       * <code>relatedData</code> definitions if any.
       * <p ><b>Note:</b>  As an example,
       * <code>Document.normalizeDocument()</code> does generate warnings when
       * the "split-cdata-sections" parameter is in use. Therefore, the method
       * generates a <code>SEVERITY_WARNING</code> with <code>type</code>
       * <code>"cdata-sections-splitted"</code> and the first
       * <code>CDATASection</code> node in document order resulting from the
       * split is returned by the <code>relatedData</code> attribute.
       */
      String getType();
  
      /**
       * The related platform dependent exception if any.
       */
      Object getRelatedException();
  
      /**
       * The related <code>DOMError.type</code> dependent data if any.
       */
      Object getRelatedData();
  
      /**
       * The location of the error.
       */
      DOMLocator getLocation();
  
  }
  