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+/*
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ *
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.  Oracle designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Oracle in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
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+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
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+ *
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+ */
+
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2009 by Oracle Corporation. All Rights Reserved.
+ */
+
+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.
+ *
+ * @version 1.0
+ * @author Copyright (c) 2009 by Oracle Corporation. 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();
+
+}