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CDATASectionImpl.javaAPI DocJava SE 6 API2752Tue Jun 10 00:22:36 BST 2008com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom

CDATASectionImpl

public class CDATASectionImpl extends TextImpl implements CDATASection
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
version
$Id: CDATASectionImpl.java,v 1.2.6.1 2005/08/30 11:32:18 sunithareddy Exp $
since
PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.

Fields Summary
static final long
serialVersionUID
Serialization version.
Constructors Summary
public CDATASectionImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, String data)
Factory constructor for creating a CDATA section.


    //
    // Constructors
    //

            
         
        super(ownerDoc, data);
    
Methods Summary
public java.lang.StringgetNodeName()
Returns the node name.

        return "#cdata-section";
    
public shortgetNodeType()
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.

        return Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE;