1 /*
2 * Copyright 2001-2005 (C) MetaStuff, Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
3 *
4 * This software is open source.
5 * See the bottom of this file for the licence.
6 */
7
8 package org.dom4j;
9
10 /***
11 * <p>
12 * <code>CharacterData</code> is a marker interface for character based nodes
13 * such as the <code>CDATA</code>,<code>Comment</code> and
14 * <code>Text</code> nodes.
15 * </p>
16 *
17 * @author <a href="mailto:jstrachan@apache.org">James Strachan </a>
18 * @version $Revision: 1.9 $
19 */
20 public interface CharacterData extends Node {
21 /***
22 * Appends the given text to this nodes text value. Calling this method is
23 * equivalent of the code <code>node.setText(node.getText() + text)</code>
24 * but allows for possible implementation optimisations (such as a text
25 * based node storing a StringBuffer internally
26 *
27 * @param text
28 * the text to append
29 */
30 void appendText(String text);
31 }
32
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