org.dom4j

Interface CharacterData

All Superinterfaces:
Cloneable, Node
Known Subinterfaces:
CDATA, Comment, Text

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

Fields inherited from interface org.dom4j.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

void
appendText(String text)
Appends the given text to this nodes text value.

Methods inherited from interface org.dom4j.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

public 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

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