//
// Comment.h
//
// $Id: //poco/Main/XML/include/DOM/Comment.h#5 $
//
// Definition of the DOM Comment class.
//
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#ifndef DOM_Comment_INCLUDED
#define DOM_Comment_INCLUDED


#ifndef XML_XML_INCLUDED
#include "XML/XML.h"
#endif
#ifndef DOM_CharacterData_INCLUDED
#include "DOM/CharacterData.h"
#endif
#ifndef XML_XMLString_INCLUDED
#include "XML/XMLString.h"
#endif


XML_BEGIN


class XML_API Comment: public 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.
{
public:
	// Node
	const XMLString& nodeName() const;
	unsigned short nodeType() const;

protected:
	Comment(Document* pOwnerDocument, const XMLString& data);
	Comment(Document* pOwnerDocument, const Comment& comment);
	~Comment();

	Node* copyNode(bool deep, Document* pOwnerDocument) const;

private:
	static const XMLString NODE_NAME;
	
	friend class Document;
};


XML_END


#endif // DOM_Comment_INCLUDED