| /* | |
| * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium, | |
| * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de | |
| * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All | |
| * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software | |
| * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the | |
| * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even | |
| * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR | |
| * PURPOSE. | |
| * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details. | |
| */ | |
| package org.w3c.dom; | |
| /** | |
| * CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters that | |
| * would otherwise be regarded as markup. The only delimiter that is | |
| * recognized in a CDATA section is the "]]>" string that ends the CDATA | |
| * section. CDATA sections cannot be nested. Their primary purpose is for | |
| * including material such as XML fragments, without needing to escape all | |
| * the delimiters. | |
| * <p>The <code>DOMString</code> attribute of the <code>Text</code> node holds | |
| * the text that is contained by the CDATA section. Note that this may | |
| * contain characters that need to be escaped outside of CDATA sections and | |
| * that, depending on the character encoding ("charset") chosen for | |
| * serialization, it may be impossible to write out some characters as part | |
| * of a CDATA section. | |
| * <p> The <code>CDATASection</code> interface inherits from the | |
| * <code>CharacterData</code> interface through the <code>Text</code> | |
| * interface. Adjacent <code>CDATASection</code> nodes are not merged by use | |
| * of the <code>normalize</code> method of the <code>Node</code> interface. | |
| * Because no markup is recognized within a <code>CDATASection</code>, | |
| * character numeric references cannot be used as an escape mechanism when | |
| * serializing. Therefore, action needs to be taken when serializing a | |
| * <code>CDATASection</code> with a character encoding where some of the | |
| * contained characters cannot be represented. Failure to do so would not | |
| * produce well-formed XML.One potential solution in the serialization | |
| * process is to end the CDATA section before the character, output the | |
| * character using a character reference or entity reference, and open a new | |
| * CDATA section for any further characters in the text node. Note, however, | |
| * that some code conversion libraries at the time of writing do not return | |
| * an error or exception when a character is missing from the encoding, | |
| * making the task of ensuring that data is not corrupted on serialization | |
| * more difficult. | |
| * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification</a>. | |
| */ | |
| public interface CDATASection extends Text { | |
| } |