public class

CDATASectionImpl

extends TextImpl
implements CDATASection
java.lang.Object
   ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
     ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
       ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.CharacterDataImpl
         ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.TextImpl
           ↳ org.apache.xerces.dom.CDATASectionImpl
Known Direct Subclasses

Class Overview

XML provides the CDATA markup to allow a region of text in which most of the XML delimiter recognition does not take place. This is intended to ease the task of quoting XML fragments and other programmatic information in a document's text without needing to escape these special characters. It's primarily a convenience feature for those who are hand-editing XML.

CDATASection is an Extended DOM feature, and is not used in HTML contexts.

Within the DOM, CDATASections are treated essentially as Text blocks. Their distinct type is retained in order to allow us to properly recreate the XML syntax when we write them out.

Reminder: CDATA IS NOT A COMPLETELY GENERAL SOLUTION; it can't quote its own end-of-block marking. If you need to write out a CDATA that contains the ]]> sequence, it's your responsibility to split that string over two successive CDATAs at that time.

CDATA does not participate in Element.normalize() processing.@xerces.internal

Summary

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Inherited Constants
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
From interface org.w3c.dom.Node
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Inherited Fields
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.CharacterDataImpl
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
Public Constructors
CDATASectionImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, String data)
Factory constructor for creating a CDATA section.
Public Methods
String getNodeName()
Returns the node name.
short getNodeType()
A short integer indicating what type of node this is.
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Inherited Methods
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.TextImpl
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.CharacterDataImpl
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
From class org.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
From class java.lang.Object
From interface org.w3c.dom.CharacterData
From interface org.w3c.dom.Node
From interface org.w3c.dom.NodeList
From interface org.w3c.dom.Text
From interface org.w3c.dom.events.EventTarget

Public Constructors

public CDATASectionImpl (CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, String data)

Factory constructor for creating a CDATA section.

Public Methods

public String getNodeName ()

Returns the node name.

public short getNodeType ()

A short integer indicating what type of node this is. The named constants for this value are defined in the org.w3c.dom.Node interface.