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package com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom;

import org.w3c.dom.CDATASection;
import org.w3c.dom.Node;

/**
 * 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.
 * <P>
 * CDATASection is an Extended DOM feature, and is not used in HTML 
 * contexts.
 * <P>
 * 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.
 * <P>
 * 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.
 * <P>
 * 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.
 */
public class CDATASectionImpl 
    extends TextImpl 
    implements CDATASection {

    //
    // Constants
    //

    /** Serialization version. */
    static final long serialVersionUID = 2372071297878177780L;

    //
    // Constructors
    //

    /** Factory constructor for creating a CDATA section. */
    public CDATASectionImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, String data) {
        super(ownerDoc, data);
    }  
    
    //
    // Node methods
    //

    /** 
     * 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.
     */
    public short getNodeType() {
        return Node.CDATA_SECTION_NODE;
    }
  
    /** Returns the node name. */
    public String getNodeName() {
        return "#cdata-section";
    }

} // class CDATASectionImpl