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weblogic.apache.xerces.dom
Class CDATASectionImpl

java.lang.Object
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Direct Known Subclasses:
DeferredCDATASectionImpl

public class CDATASectionImpl
extends TextImpl
implements org.w3c.dom.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.

This class is based on an implementation from the Apache XML Project. In future releases the XML parser, XSLT processor, and associated classes will likely be updated to be based on a later version of the Apache implementations. Since Apache does not guarantee backwards compatibility between versions of their software, we cannot guarantee backwards compatibility of any of the classes contained in the weblogic.apache package or sub-packages.

See Also:
Serialized Form

Fields inherited from class weblogic.apache.xerces.dom.CharacterDataImpl
data
 
Fields inherited from class weblogic.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
nextSibling, previousSibling
 
Fields inherited from class weblogic.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
ELEMENT_DEFINITION_NODE, FIRSTCHILD, flags, HASSTRING, IDATTRIBUTE, IGNORABLEWS, OWNED, ownerNode, READONLY, SPECIFIED, SYNCCHILDREN, SYNCDATA, TREE_POSITION_ANCESTOR, TREE_POSITION_DESCENDANT, TREE_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, TREE_POSITION_EQUIVALENT, TREE_POSITION_FOLLOWING, TREE_POSITION_PRECEDING, TREE_POSITION_SAME_NODE, UNNORMALIZED
 
Constructor Summary
CDATASectionImpl(CoreDocumentImpl ownerDoc, java.lang.String data)
          Factory constructor for creating a CDATA section.
 
Method Summary
 java.lang.String getNodeName()
          Returns the node name.
 short getNodeType()
          A short integer indicating what type of node this is.
 
Methods inherited from class weblogic.apache.xerces.dom.TextImpl
getIsWhitespaceInElementContent, getWholeText, isIgnorableWhitespace, removeData, replaceData, replaceWholeText, setIgnorableWhitespace, setValues, splitText
 
Methods inherited from class weblogic.apache.xerces.dom.CharacterDataImpl
appendData, deleteData, getChildNodes, getData, getLength, getNodeValue, insertData, replaceData, setData, setNodeValue, setNodeValueInternal, substringData
 
Methods inherited from class weblogic.apache.xerces.dom.ChildNode
cloneNode, getNextSibling, getParentNode, getPreviousSibling
 
Methods inherited from class weblogic.apache.xerces.dom.NodeImpl
addEventListener, appendChild, changed, changes, compareTreePosition, dispatchEvent, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getFirstChild, getInterface, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getOwnerDocument, getPrefix, getReadOnly, getTextContent, getUserData, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, item, lookupNamespacePrefix, lookupNamespaceURI, needsSyncChildren, normalize, removeChild, removeEventListener, replaceChild, setPrefix, setReadOnly, setTextContent, setUserData, setUserData, synchronizeData, toString
 
Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait
 

Constructor Detail

CDATASectionImpl

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

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.

Overrides:
getNodeType in class TextImpl

getNodeName

public java.lang.String getNodeName()
Returns the node name.

Overrides:
getNodeName in class TextImpl

Documentation is available at
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13222_01/wls/docs81