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package scala
package xml
/**
* `SpecialNode` is a special XML node which represents either text
* `(PCDATA)`, a comment, a `PI`, or an entity ref.
*
* `SpecialNode`s also play the role of [[scala.xml.pull.XMLEvent]]s for
* pull-parsing.
*
* @author Burak Emir
*/
abstract class SpecialNode extends Node with pull.XMLEvent {
/** always empty */
final override def attributes = Null
/** always Node.EmptyNamespace */
final override def namespace = null
/** always empty */
final def child = Nil
/** Append string representation to the given string buffer argument. */
def buildString(sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder
}