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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 JavaDoc text);
31 }
32
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