1 /* 2 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, 3 * 4 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for 5 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This 6 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that 7 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 8 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 9 * 10 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 11 */ 12 13 package org.w3c.dom; 14 15 /** 16 * This interface inherits from <code>CharacterData</code> and represents the 17 * content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting ' 18 * <code><!--</code>' and ending '<code>--></code>'. Note that this is 19 * the definition of a comment in XML, and, in practice, HTML, although some 20 * HTML tools may implement the full SGML comment structure. 21 * <p> No lexical check is done on the content of a comment and it is 22 * therefore possible to have the character sequence <code>"--"</code> 23 * (double-hyphen) in the content, which is illegal in a comment per section 24 * 2.5 of [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The 25 * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during 26 * serialization. 27 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>. 28 */ 29 public interface Comment extends CharacterData { 30 } 31
