CharacterData

All Superinterfaces:: Cloneable, Node

All Known Subinterfaces:: CDATA, Comment, Text

All Known Implementing Classes:: AbstractCDATA, AbstractCharacterData, AbstractComment, AbstractText, DefaultCDATA, DefaultComment, DefaultText, DOMCDATA, DOMComment, DOMText, FlyweightCDATA, FlyweightComment, FlyweightText

public interface CharacterData extends Node

CharacterData is a marker interface for character based nodes such as the CDATA,Comment and Text nodes.

Version:: $Revision: 1.9 $
Author:: James Strachan

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface Node
ANY_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, MAX_NODE_TYPE, NAMESPACE_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE, UNKNOWN_NODE
Method Summary

Modifier and Type

Method

Description

void

appendText(String text)

Appends the given text to this nodes text value.

Methods inherited from interface Node
accept, asXML, asXPathResult, clone, createXPath, detach, getDocument, getName, getNodeType, getNodeTypeName, getParent, getPath, getPath, getStringValue, getText, getUniquePath, getUniquePath, hasContent, isReadOnly, matches, numberValueOf, selectNodes, selectNodes, selectNodes, selectObject, selectSingleNode, setDocument, setName, setParent, setText, supportsParent, valueOf, write

Method Details
- appendText
  
  void appendText(String text)
  
  Appends the given text to this nodes text value. Calling this method is equivalent of the code node.setText(node.getText() + text) but allows for possible implementation optimisations (such as a text based node storing a StringBuffer internally
  
  Parameters:
  
  text - the text to append