org.jdom

Class CDATA

public class CDATA extends Text

An XML CDATA section. Represents character-based content within an XML document that should be output within special CDATA tags. Semantically it's identical to a simple Text object, but output behavior is different. CDATA makes no guarantees about the underlying textual representation of character data, but does expose that data as a Java String.

Version: $Revision: 1.32 $, $Date: 2007/11/10 05:28:58 $

Author: Dan Schaffer Brett McLaughlin Jason Hunter Bradley S. Huffman Victor Toni

Constructor Summary
protected	CDATA() This is the protected, no-args constructor standard in all JDOM classes.
	CDATA(String string) This constructor creates a new `CDATA` node, with the supplied string value as it's character content.

Method Summary
void	append(String str) This will append character content to whatever content already exists within this `CDATA` node.
void	append(Text text) This will append the content of another `Text` node to this node.
Text	setText(String str) This will set the value of this `CDATA` node.
String	toString() This returns a `String` representation of the `CDATA` node, suitable for debugging.

Constructor Detail

CDATA

protected CDATA()

This is the protected, no-args constructor standard in all JDOM classes. It allows subclassers to get a raw instance with no initialization.

CDATA

public CDATA(String string)

This constructor creates a new CDATA node, with the supplied string value as it's character content.

Parameters: string the node's character content.

Throws: IllegalDataException if str contains an illegal character such as a vertical tab (as determined by Verifier) or the CDATA end delimiter ]]>.

Method Detail

append

public void append(String str)

This will append character content to whatever content already exists within this CDATA node.

Parameters: str character content to append.

Throws: IllegalDataException if str contains an illegal character such as a vertical tab (as determined by Verifier) or the CDATA end delimiter ]]>.

append

public void append(Text text)

This will append the content of another Text node to this node.

Parameters: text Text node to append.

setText

public Text setText(String str)

This will set the value of this CDATA node.

Parameters: str value for node's content.

Returns: the object on which the method was invoked

Throws: IllegalDataException if str contains an illegal character such as a vertical tab (as determined by Verifier) or the CDATA end delimiter ]]>.

toString

public String toString()

This returns a String representation of the CDATA node, suitable for debugging. If the XML representation of the CDATA node is desired, either CDATA or XMLOutputter should be used.

Returns: String - information about this node.