Class: Comment (in XML)

• Inheritance
• Description
• Instance protocol
  • accessing
  • comparing
  • printing
  • testing
  • visiting

Inheritance:

   Object
   |
   +--XML::Node
      |
      +--XML::Comment

Package:

stx:goodies/xml/vw

Category:

XML-VW-Nodes

Version:

rev: 1.12 date: 2013/07/03 07:04:25

user: stefan

file: Comment.st directory: goodies/xml/vw

module: stx stc-classLibrary: vw

Description:

This class represents an XML comment. XML comments may appear anywhere in an XML document outside other markup or within the document type declaration at places allowed by grammar.

 XML comments are delimited by the start-tag '<!!!!!!!!--' and the end-tag '-->'. 

According to the XML 1.0 specification, for compatibilty, double-hyphens (the string '--') must not occur within comments.

Instance Variables:
	text    <String>  contents of the comment element

Instance protocol:

 text

 text: aText

 xPath

 xpathStringData

 = anXmlComment

 hash

 prettyPrintOn: aStream depth: indent

 printCanonicalOn: aStream

 printHTMLOn: aStream

 printNoIndentOn: aStream endSpacing: endSpacingBlock spacing: spacingBlock

 printOn: aStream

 isComment

 acceptVisitor: aVisitor

Double dispatch back to the visitor, passing my type encoded in
the selector (visitor pattern)