A Text node represents a run of plain text that does
not contain any XML markup. Plain text appears within XML elements
and attributes, and Text nodes typically appear as
children of Element and Attr
nodes. Text nodes inherit from
CharacterData, and the textual content of a
Text node is available through the
getdata( ) method inherited from
CharacterData or through the
getNodeValue( ) method inherited from
Node.
Text nodes may be manipulated using any of the
methods inherited from CharacterData. The
Text interface defines one method of its own:
splitText( ) splits a Text node
at the specified character position. The method changes the original
node so that it contains only the text up to the specified position.
Then it creates a new Text node that contains the
text from the specified position on and inserts that new node into
the document tree immediately after the original one. The
Node.normalize( ) method reverses this process by
deleting emty Text nodes and merging adjacent
Text nodes into a single node.
Text nodes never have children.
public interface Text extends CharacterData {
// Public Instance Methods
5.0 String getWholeText( );
5.0 boolean isElementContentWhitespace( );
5.0 Text replaceWholeText(String content) throws DOMException;
Text splitText(int offset) throws DOMException;
}
