org.w3c.dom.CDATASection Maven / Gradle / Ivy
// Copyright (c) 1998 by W3C
//
// DOM is a trademark of W3C
// The DOM level 1 specification, from which this
// source is derived, is copyright by W3C.
// See: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/
//
package org.w3c.dom;
/**
CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing
characters that would otherwise be regarded as markup. The only
delimiter that is recognized in a CDATA section is the "]]>" string
that ends the CDATA section. CDATA sections can not be
nested. The primary purpose is for including
material such as XML fragments, without needing to escape all
the delimiters.
The data attribute of the
Text node holds the text that is contained by the CDATA
section. Note that this may contain characters
that need to be escaped outside of CDATA sections and that, depending on
the character encoding ("charset") chosen for serialization, it may be
impossible to write out some characters as part of a CDATA section.
The CDATASection interface inherits the
CharacterData interface through the Text
interface. Adjacent CDATASections nodes are not merged by
use of the Element.normalize() method.
*/
public interface CDATASection
extends Text
{
}