Comment
Interface Comment
- All Superinterfaces:
- CharacterData, Node
public interface Comment extends CharacterData
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 [