org.jdom

Class CDATA

java.lang.Object

org.jdom.Content

org.jdom.Text

org.jdom.CDATA

All Implemented Interfaces:

Serializable, Cloneable

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: 1.30 $, $Date: 2004/02/27 11:32:57 $

Author:

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

See Also:

Serialized Form

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class org.jdom.Text

value

Fields inherited from class org.jdom.Content

parent

Constructor Summary

Constructors

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

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
void	append(String str) This will append character content to whatever content already exists within this CDATA 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.

Methods inherited from class org.jdom.Text

append, clone, getText, getTextNormalize, getTextTrim, getValue, normalizeString

Methods inherited from class org.jdom.Content

detach, equals, getDocument, getParent, getParentElement, hashCode, 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(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.

Throws:

IllegalDataException - if str contains an illegal character such as a vertical tab (as determined by Verifier.checkCharacterData(java.lang.String)) or the CDATA end delimiter ]]>.

Method Detail

setText

public Text setText(String str)

This will set the value of this CDATA node.

Overrides:

setText in class Text

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.checkCharacterData(java.lang.String)) or the CDATA end delimiter ]]>.

append

public void append(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.

Throws:

IllegalDataException - if str contains an illegal character such as a vertical tab (as determined by Verifier.checkCharacterData(java.lang.String)) 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 Text.getText() or XMLOutputter.output(CDATA, java.io.Writer) should be used.

Overrides:

toString in class Text

Returns:

String - information about this node.