001    /*
002     * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
003     *
004     * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
005     * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
006     * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
007     * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
008     * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
009     *
010     * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
011     */
012    
013    package org.w3c.dom;
014    
015    /**
016     * This interface inherits from <code>CharacterData</code> and represents the
017     * content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting '
018     * <code>&lt;!--</code>' and ending '<code>--&gt;</code>'. Note that this is
019     * the definition of a comment in XML, and, in practice, HTML, although some
020     * HTML tools may implement the full SGML comment structure.
021     * <p> No lexical check is done on the content of a comment and it is
022     * therefore possible to have the character sequence <code>"--"</code>
023     * (double-hyphen) in the content, which is illegal in a comment per section
024     * 2.5 of [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The
025     * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during
026     * serialization.
027     * <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>.
028     */
029    public interface Comment extends CharacterData {
030    }