# Interface DTD

All Superinterfaces:
  `XMLEvent, XMLStreamConstants`

public interface DTD extends XMLEvent
This is the top level interface for events dealing with DTDs

Since:
  1.6

## Field Summary

### Fields declared in interface XMLStreamConstants

`ATTRIBUTE, CDATA, CHARACTERS, COMMENT, DTD, END_DOCUMENT, END_ELEMENT, ENTITY_DECLARATION, ENTITY_REFERENCE, NAMESPACE, NOTATION_DECLARATION, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SPACE, START_DOCUMENT, START_ELEMENT`

## Method Summary

Modifier and Type
Method
Description
`String`
`getDocumentTypeDeclaration()`
Returns the entire Document Type Declaration as a string, including the internal DTD subset.
`List<EntityDeclaration>`
`getEntities()`
Return a List containing the general entities, both external and internal, declared in the DTD.
`List<NotationDeclaration>`
`getNotations()`
Return a List containing the notations declared in the DTD.
`Object`
`getProcessedDTD()`
Returns an implementation defined representation of the DTD.

### Methods declared in interface XMLEvent

`asCharacters, asEndElement, asStartElement, getEventType, getLocation, getSchemaType, isAttribute, isCharacters, isEndDocument, isEndElement, isEntityReference, isNamespace, isProcessingInstruction, isStartDocument, isStartElement, writeAsEncodedUnicode`

## Method Details

### getDocumentTypeDeclaration

String getDocumentTypeDeclaration()
Returns the entire Document Type Declaration as a string, including the internal DTD subset. This may be null if there is not an internal subset. If it is not null it must return the entire Document Type Declaration which matches the doctypedecl production in the XML 1.0 specification

Returns:
  the Document Type Declaration

### getProcessedDTD

Object getProcessedDTD()
Returns an implementation defined representation of the DTD. This method may return null if no representation is available.

Returns:
  the representation of the DTD

### getNotations

List<NotationDeclaration> getNotations()
Return a List containing the notations declared in the DTD. This list must contain NotationDeclaration events.

Returns:
  an unordered list of NotationDeclaration events
See Also:
  - `NotationDeclaration`

### getEntities

List<EntityDeclaration> getEntities()
Return a List containing the general entities, both external and internal, declared in the DTD. This list must contain EntityDeclaration events.

Returns:
  an unordered list of EntityDeclaration events
See Also:
  - `EntityDeclaration`