org.jdom
Class CDATA

java.lang.Object
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  +--org.jdom.Text
        |
        +--org.jdom.CDATA

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.lang.Cloneable, java.io.Serializable

public class CDATA

extends Text

CDATA represents character-based content within an XML document represented by JDOM. It is intended to provide a modular, printable method of representing CDATA. Additionally, CDATA makes no guarantees about the underlying textual representation of character data, but does expose that data as a Java String.

Version:

$Revision: 1.21 $, $Date: 2002/04/06 08:47:57 $

Author:

Dan Schaffer, Brett McLaughlin, Jason Hunter, Bradley S. Huffman

See Also:

Serialized Form

Fields inherited from class org.jdom.Text

parent, value

Constructor Summary

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

Method Summary

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

Methods inherited from class org.jdom.Text

append, clone, detach, equals, getDocument, getParent, getText, getTextNormalize, getTextTrim, hashCode, normalizeString, setParent

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

finalize, getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

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(java.lang.String str)

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

Parameters:

str - the node's character content.

Method Detail

setText

public Text setText(java.lang.String str)

This will set the value of this CDATA node.

Overrides:

setText in class Text

Parameters:

str - value for node's content.

append

public void append(java.lang.String str)

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

Overrides:

append in class Text

Parameters:

str - character content to append.

toString

public java.lang.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 Text.getText() or XMLOutputter.output(CDATA, Writer) should be used.

Overrides:

toString in class Text

Returns:

String - information about this node.