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/*
 * This file is part of the DiffX library.
 *
 * For licensing information please see the file license.txt included in the release.
 * A copy of this licence can also be found at
 *   http://www.opensource.org/licenses/artistic-license-2.0.php
 */
package com.topologi.diffx.event;

/**
 * An interface for any data that comes from a text node.
 * 
 * @author Christophe Lauret
 * @version 21 December 2004
 */
public interface TextEvent extends DiffXEvent {

  /**
   * Returns the characters that this event represents.
   * 
   * Note: this method will return the characters as used by Java (ie. Unicode), they
   * may not be suitable for writing to an XML string.
   * 
   * @return The characters that this event represents.
   */
  String getCharacters();

}