org.w3c.dom.Comment Maven / Gradle / Ivy

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
 *
 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 *
 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
 */

package org.w3c.dom;

/**
 * This interface inherits from CharacterData and represents the
 * content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting '
 * <!--' and ending '-->'. Note that this is
 * the definition of a comment in XML, and, in practice, HTML, although some
 * HTML tools may implement the full SGML comment structure.
 *  No lexical check is done on the content of a comment and it is
 * therefore possible to have the character sequence "--"
 * (double-hyphen) in the content, which is illegal in a comment per section
 * 2.5 of [XML 1.0]. The
 * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during
 * serialization.
 * See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.
 */
public interface Comment extends CharacterData {
}