Package org.apache.xerces.dom

Class CDATASectionImpl

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
All Implemented Interfaces:
Serializable, Cloneable, CDATASection, CharacterData, EventTarget, Node, NodeList, Text
Direct Known Subclasses:
DeferredCDATASectionImpl
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.

INTERNAL:

Usage of this class is not supported. It may be altered or removed at any time.
Since:
PR-DOM-Level-1-19980818.
Version:
$Id: CDATASectionImpl.java 447266 2006-09-18 05:57:49Z mrglavas $
See Also:

  • Constructor Details

    • CDATASectionImpl

      public CDATASectionImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, String data)
      Factory constructor for creating a CDATA section.

  • Method Details

    • getNodeType

      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.
      Specified by:
      getNodeType in interface Node
      Overrides:
      getNodeType in class TextImpl

    • getNodeName

      public String getNodeName()
      Returns the node name.
      Specified by:
      getNodeName in interface Node
      Overrides:
      getNodeName in class TextImpl