NAME

HTML::DOM::CharacterData - A base class shared by HTML::DOM::Text and ::Comment

DESCRIPTION

This class provides those methods that are shared both by comments and text nodes in an HTML DOM tree.

The following DOM attributes are supported:

data: The textual data that the node contains.
length: The number of characters in data.
length16: A standards-compliant version of length that counts UTF-16 bytes instead of characters.

substringData ( $offset, $length ): Returns a substring of the data. If $length is omitted, all characters from $offset to the end of the data are returned.
substringData16: A UTF-16 version of substringData.
appendData ( $str ): Appends $str to the node's data.
insertData ( $offset, $str ): Inserts $str at the given $offset, which is understood to be the number of Unicode characters from the beginning of the node's data.
insertData16: Like insertData, but $offset is taken to be the number of UTF-16 (16-bit) bytes.
deleteData ( $offset, $length ): Deletes the specified data. If $length is omitted, all characters from $offset to the end of the node's data are deleted.
deleteData16: A UTF-16 version of the above.
replaceData ( $offset, $length, $str ): This replaces the substring specified by $offset and $length with $str.