#ifndef DOMDocumentFragment_HEADER_GUARD_

#define DOMDocumentFragment_HEADER_GUARD_

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/*

 * $Id: DOMDocumentFragment.hpp 568078 2007-08-21 11:43:25Z amassari $

 */

#include <xercesc/util/XercesDefs.hpp>

#include <xercesc/dom/DOMNode.hpp>

XERCES_CPP_NAMESPACE_BEGIN

/**

 * DOMDocumentFragment is a "lightweight" or "minimal"

 * DOMDocument object.

 *

 * It is very common to want to be able to

 * extract a portion of a document's tree or to create a new fragment of a

 * document. Imagine implementing a user command like cut or rearranging a

 * document by moving fragments around. It is desirable to have an object

 * which can hold such fragments and it is quite natural to use a DOMNode for

 * this purpose. While it is true that a <code>DOMDocument</code> object could

 * fulfil this role,  a <code>DOMDocument</code> object can potentially be a

 * heavyweight  object, depending on the underlying implementation. What is

 * really needed for this is a very lightweight object.

 * <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code> is such an object.

 * <p>Furthermore, various operations -- such as inserting nodes as children

 * of another <code>DOMNode</code> -- may take <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code>

 * objects as arguments;  this results in all the child nodes of the

 * <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code>  being moved to the child list of this node.

 * <p>The children of a <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code> node are zero or more

 * nodes representing the tops of any sub-trees defining the structure of the

 * document. <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code> nodes do not need to be

 * well-formed XML documents (although they do need to follow the rules

 * imposed upon well-formed XML parsed entities, which can have multiple top

 * nodes).  For example, a <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code> might have only one

 * child and that child node could be a <code>DOMText</code> node. Such a

 * structure model  represents neither an HTML document nor a well-formed XML

 * document.

 * <p>When a <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code> is inserted into a

 * <code>DOMDocument</code> (or indeed any other <code>DOMNode</code> that may take

 * children) the children of the <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code> and not the

 * <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code>  itself are inserted into the

 * <code>DOMNode</code>. This makes the <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code> very

 * useful when the user wishes to create nodes that are siblings; the

 * <code>DOMDocumentFragment</code> acts as the parent of these nodes so that the

 *  user can use the standard methods from the <code>DOMNode</code>  interface,

 * such as <code>insertBefore()</code> and  <code>appendChild()</code>.

 *

 * @since DOM Level 1

 */

class CDOM_EXPORT DOMDocumentFragment: public DOMNode {

protected:

    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    //  Hidden constructors

    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    /** @name Hidden constructors */

    //@{    

    DOMDocumentFragment() {};

    //@}

private:

    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    // Unimplemented constructors and operators

    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    /** @name Unimplemented constructors and operators */

    //@{

    DOMDocumentFragment(const DOMDocumentFragment &);

    DOMDocumentFragment & operator = (const DOMDocumentFragment &);

    //@}

public:

    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    //  All constructors are hidden, just the destructor is available

    // -----------------------------------------------------------------------

    /** @name Destructor */

    //@{

    /**

     * Destructor

     *

     */

    virtual ~DOMDocumentFragment() {};

	//@}

};

XERCES_CPP_NAMESPACE_END

#endif