Initial Contribution
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+/*
+ *  Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *  contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ *  this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *  The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ *  (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ *  the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ *  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ *  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ *  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ *  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ *  limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package javax.imageio.metadata;
+
+import org.w3c.dom.Node;
+import javax.imageio.IIOException;
+
+/**
+ * The IIOInvalidTreeException provides notification about
+ * fails of IIOMetadataNodes tree parsing by IIOMetadata object. 
+ */
+public class IIOInvalidTreeException extends IIOException {
+    
+    /** The offending node. */
+    protected Node offendingNode = null;
+
+    /**
+     * Instantiates an IIOInvalidTreeException with the
+     * specified detailed message and specified offending
+     * Node.
+     * 
+     * @param message the detailed message.
+     * @param offendingNode the offending node.
+     */
+    public IIOInvalidTreeException(String message, Node offendingNode) {
+        super(message);
+        this.offendingNode = offendingNode;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Instantiates a new IIOInvalidTreeException with the
+     * specified detailed message and specified offending
+     * Node.
+     * 
+     * @param message the detailed message.
+     * @param cause the cause of this exception.
+     * @param offendingNode the offending node
+     */
+    public IIOInvalidTreeException(String message, Throwable cause, Node offendingNode) {
+        super(message, cause);
+        this.offendingNode = offendingNode;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Gets the offending node.
+     * 
+     * @return the offending node.
+     */
+    public Node getOffendingNode() {
+        return offendingNode;
+    }
+}