| /* |
| * 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 { |
| } |
