gecko/dom/interfaces/core/nsIDOMText.idl

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#include "nsIDOMCharacterData.idl"

/**
 * The nsIDOMText interface inherits from nsIDOMCharacterData and represents 
 * the textual content (termed character data in XML) of an Element or Attr.
 *
 * For more information on this interface please see 
 * http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html
 */

[scriptable, uuid(437ed60c-febd-4bd0-892f-cf358adc3c96)]
interface nsIDOMText : nsIDOMCharacterData
{
  nsIDOMText                      splitText(in unsigned long offset)
                                       raises(DOMException);

  /**
   * The concatenation of all logically adjacent text nodes with this text
   * node, where "logically adjacent" consists of all text nodes which can be
   * reached by traversing the document tree in either direction without
   * passing an element, comment, or processing-instruction boundary.  
   */
  readonly attribute DOMString wholeText;
};