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  21  * $Id: DTM.java,v 1.2.4.1 2005/09/15 08:14:51 suresh_emailid Exp $
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  23 package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.dtm;
  24 
  25 import javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator;
  26 
  27 import com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.utils.XMLString;
  28 
  29 /**
  30  * <code>DTM</code> is an XML document model expressed as a table
  31  * rather than an object tree. It attempts to provide an interface to
  32  * a parse tree that has very little object creation. (DTM
  33  * implementations may also support incremental construction of the
  34  * model, but that's hidden from the DTM API.)
  35  *
  36  * <p>Nodes in the DTM are identified by integer "handles".  A handle must
  37  * be unique within a process, and carries both node identification and
  38  * document identification.  It must be possible to compare two handles
  39  * (and thus their nodes) for identity with "==".</p>
  40  *
  41  * <p>Namespace URLs, local-names, and expanded-names can all be
  42  * represented by and tested as integer ID values.  An expanded name

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  22 package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.dtm;
  23 
  24 import javax.xml.transform.SourceLocator;
  25 
  26 import com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.utils.XMLString;
  27 
  28 /**
  29  * <code>DTM</code> is an XML document model expressed as a table
  30  * rather than an object tree. It attempts to provide an interface to
  31  * a parse tree that has very little object creation. (DTM
  32  * implementations may also support incremental construction of the
  33  * model, but that's hidden from the DTM API.)
  34  *
  35  * <p>Nodes in the DTM are identified by integer "handles".  A handle must
  36  * be unique within a process, and carries both node identification and
  37  * document identification.  It must be possible to compare two handles
  38  * (and thus their nodes) for identity with "==".</p>
  39  *
  40  * <p>Namespace URLs, local-names, and expanded-names can all be
  41  * represented by and tested as integer ID values.  An expanded name