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XMLCDATASectionMBS class
Super class: XMLTextMBS
Type | Topic | Plugin | Version | macOS | Windows | Linux | iOS | Targets |
class | XML | MBS XML Plugin | 22.4 | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes | All |
The only delimiter that is recognized in a CDATA section is the "]]>" string that ends the CDATA section. CDATA sections cannot be nested. Their primary purpose is for including material such as XML fragments, without needing to escape all the delimiters.
The data attribute of the XMLTextMBS node holds the text that is contained by the CDATA section. Note that this may contain characters that need to be escaped outside of CDATA sections and that, depending on the character encoding ("charset") chosen for serialization, it may be impossible to write out some characters as part of a CDATA section.
The XMLCDATASectionMBS interface inherits from the XMLCharacterDataMBS interface through the XMLTextMBS interface. Adjacent XMLCDATASectionMBS nodes are not merged by use of the normalize method of the XMLNodeMBS interface. Because no markup is recognized within a XMLCDATASectionMBS, character numeric references cannot be used as an escape mechanism when serializing. Therefore, action needs to be taken when serializing a XMLCDATASectionMBS with a character encoding where some of the contained characters cannot be represented. Failure to do so would not produce well-formed XML.One potential solution in the serialization process is to end the CDATA section before the character, output the character using a character reference or entity reference, and open a new CDATA section for any further characters in the text node. Note, however, that some code conversion libraries at the time of writing do not return an error or exception when a character is missing from the encoding, making the task of ensuring that data is not corrupted on serialization more difficult.
Subclass of the XMLTextMBS class.
This is an abstract class. You can't create an instance, but you can get one from various plugin functions.
- method Constructor Private
Super class XMLTextMBS
- 2 properties
- property IsElementContentWhitespace as Boolean
- property WholeText as String
- 2 methods
- method Constructor Private
- method splitText(Offset as Integer) as XMLTextMBS
Super class XMLCharacterDataMBS
- 2 properties
- 6 methods
- method appendData(data as string)
- method Constructor Private
- method deleteData(offset as Integer, count as Integer)
- method insertData(offset as Integer, data as string)
- method replaceData(offset as Integer, count as Integer, data as string)
- method substringData(offset as Integer, count as Integer) as String
Super class XMLNodeMBS
- 20 properties
- property AttributeCount as Integer
- property BaseURI as String
- property ChildCount as Integer
- property FirstChild as XMLNodeMBS
- property Handle as Integer
- property hasAttributes as Boolean
- property hasChildren as Boolean
- property LastChild as XMLNodeMBS
- property LocalName as String
- property NamespaceURI as String
- property NextSibling as XMLNodeMBS
- property NodeName as String
- property NodeType as Integer
- property NodeValue as String
- property OwnerDocument as XMLDocumentMBS
- property ParentNode as XMLNodeMBS
- property Prefix as String
- property PreviousSibling as XMLNodeMBS
- property ReferenceCount as Integer
- property toString as String
- 19 methods
- method appendChild(newChild as XMLNodeMBS) as XMLNodeMBS
- method AttributeNode(Index as Integer) as XMLAttributeMBS
- method AttributeNodes as XMLAttributeMBS()
- method Child(Index as Integer) as XMLNodeMBS
- method ChildNodes as XMLNodeMBS()
- method Clone(deep as Boolean) as XMLNodeMBS
- method compareDocumentPosition(other as XMLNodeMBS) as Integer
- method Constructor Private
- method insertBefore(newChild as XMLNodeMBS, refChild as XMLNodeMBS) as XMLNodeMBS
- method isDefaultNamespace(namespaceURI as String) as Boolean
- method isEqualNode(other as XMLNodeMBS) as Boolean
- method isSameNode(other as XMLNodeMBS) as Boolean
- method IterateAttributeNodes as XMLIterateAttributeNodesMBS
- method IterateChildNodes as XMLIterateChildNodesMBS
- method lookupNamespaceURI(prefix as String) as String
- method lookupPrefix(namespaceURI as String) as String
- method Normalize
- method removeChild(Node as XMLNodeMBS)
- method replaceChild(newChild as XMLNodeMBS, oldChild as XMLNodeMBS) as XMLNodeMBS
- 18 constants
Document Positions
Constant | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
DocumentPositionContainedBy | 16 |
The node is contained by the reference node. A node which is contained is always following, too. |
DocumentPositionContains | 8 |
The node contains the reference node. A node which contains is always preceding, too. |
DocumentPositionDisconnected | 1 |
The two nodes are disconnected. Order between disconnected nodes is always implementation-specific. |
DocumentPositionFollowing | 4 |
The node follows the reference node. |
DocumentPositionImplementationSpecific | 32 |
The determination of preceding versus following is implementation-specific. |
DocumentPositionPreceding | 2 |
The second node precedes the reference node. |
Types
Constant | Value | Description |
---|---|---|
TypeAttribute | 2 |
Attribute Node |
TypeCDataSection | 4 |
CDataSection Node |
TypeComment | 8 |
Comment Node |
TypeDocument | 9 |
Document Node |
TypeDocumentFragment | 11 |
Document Fragment |
TypeDocumentType | 10 |
Document Type Node |
TypeElement | 1 |
Element Node |
TypeEntity | 6 |
Entity Node |
TypeEntityReferenceNode | 5 |
Entity Reference Node |
TypeNotation | 12 |
Notation Node |
TypeProcessingInstruction | 7 |
Processing Instruction Node |
TypeText | 3 |
Text Node |
This class has no sub classes.
Some methods using this class:
- XMLDocumentMBS.createCDATASection(Data as String) as XMLCDATASectionMBS
- XMLDocumentMBS.createProcessingInstruction(Target as String, Data as string) as XMLCDATASectionMBS
The items on this page are in the following plugins: MBS XML Plugin.
XMLAttributeMBS - XMLCharacterDataMBS