content: /*
   * 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 mf.org.w3c.dom;
  
  /**
   * CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text containing characters that
   * would otherwise be regarded as markup. The only delimiter that is
   * recognized in a CDATA section is the "]]&gt;" string that ends the CDATA
   * section. CDATA sections cannot be nested. Their primary purpose is for
   * including material such as XML fragments, without needing to escape all
   * the delimiters.
   * <p>The <code>CharacterData.data</code> attribute holds the text that is
   * contained by the CDATA section. Note that this <em>may</em> contain characters that need to be escaped outside of CDATA sections and
   * that, depending on the character encoding ("charset") chosen for
   * serialization, it may be impossible to write out some characters as part
   * of a CDATA section.
   * <p>The <code>CDATASection</code> interface inherits from the
   * <code>CharacterData</code> interface through the <code>Text</code>
   * interface. Adjacent <code>CDATASection</code> nodes are not merged by use
   * of the <code>normalize</code> method of the <code>Node</code> interface.
   * <p> No lexical check is done on the content of a CDATA section and it is
   * therefore possible to have the character sequence <code>"]]&gt;"</code>
   * in the content, which is illegal in a CDATA section per section 2.7 of [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The
   * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during
   * serialization or the cdata section must be splitted before the
   * serialization (see also the parameter <code>"split-cdata-sections"</code>
   * in the <code>DOMConfiguration</code> interface).
   * <p ><b>Note:</b> Because no markup is recognized within a
   * <code>CDATASection</code>, character numeric references cannot be used as
   * an escape mechanism when serializing. Therefore, action needs to be taken
   * when serializing a <code>CDATASection</code> with a character encoding
   * where some of the contained characters cannot be represented. Failure to
   * do so would not produce well-formed XML.
   * <p ><b>Note:</b> One potential solution in the serialization process is to
   * end the CDATA section before the character, output the character using a
   * character reference or entity reference, and open a new CDATA section for
   * any further characters in the text node. Note, however, that some code
   * conversion libraries at the time of writing do not return an error or
   * exception when a character is missing from the encoding, making the task
   * of ensuring that data is not corrupted on serialization more difficult.
   * <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>.
   */
  public interface CDATASection extends Text {
  }
  