/* * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, * * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. * * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 */ package org.w3c.dom; /** * This interface inherits from CharacterData and represents the * content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting ' * <!--' and ending '-->'. Note that this is * the definition of a comment in XML, and, in practice, HTML, although some * HTML tools may implement the full SGML comment structure. *

No lexical check is done on the content of a comment and it is * therefore possible to have the character sequence "--" * (double-hyphen) in the content, which is illegal in a comment per section * 2.5 of [XML 1.0]. The * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during * serialization. *

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification. */ public interface Comment extends CharacterData { }