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package javax.xml.stream.events;

/**

 * This describes the interface to Characters events.

 * All text events get reported as Characters events.

 * Content, CData and whitespace are all reported as

 * Characters events.  IgnorableWhitespace, in most cases,

 * will be set to false unless an element declaration of element

 * content is present for the current element.

 *

 * @author Copyright (c) 2003 by BEA Systems. All Rights Reserved.

 * @since 1.6

 */

public interface Characters extends XMLEvent {

  /**

   * Get the character data of this event

   */

  public String getData();

  /**

   * Returns true if this set of Characters

   * is all whitespace.  Whitespace inside a document

   * is reported as CHARACTERS.  This method allows

   * checking of CHARACTERS events to see if they

   * are composed of only whitespace characters

   */

  public boolean isWhiteSpace();

  /**

   * Returns true if this is a CData section.  If this

   * event is CData its event type will be CDATA

   *

   * If javax.xml.stream.isCoalescing is set to true CDATA Sections

   * that are surrounded by non CDATA characters will be reported

   * as a single Characters event. This method will return false

   * in this case.

   */

  public boolean isCData();

  /**

   * Return true if this is ignorableWhiteSpace.  If

   * this event is ignorableWhiteSpace its event type will

   * be SPACE.

   */

  public boolean isIgnorableWhiteSpace();

}