Microsoft SDK for Java

Element Interface Fields

The Element interface contains the fields as shown in the following table.

CDATA Raw character data specified with special CDATA construct: <![CDATA[...]]>, where ... can be anything except ]]>, including HTML tags.
COMMENT An XML comment (<!-- ... -->).
DOCUMENT Reserved for use by only the Document node.
DTD Reserved for use by only the DTD node.
ELEMENT A general container element having optional attributes and optional child elements.
ELEMENTDECL An element declaration node.
ENTITY An entity node.
ENTITYREF Entity reference nodes.
IGNORESECTION Ignore conditional section.
INCLUDESECTION Include conditional section.
META A meta element containing information about the tree.
NAMESPACE A namespace node that declares new namespaces in the element tree.
NOTATION A notation node.
PCDATA A text element that has no children or attributes and that contains parsed character data.
PI A processing instruction node (<? ... ?>).
WHITESPACE White space to ignore between elements.

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