NAME

HTML::DOM::Text - A Perl class for representing text nodes in an HTML DOM tree

SYNOPSIS

  use HTML::DOM;
  $doc = HTML::DOM->new;
  $comment = $doc->createComment("yayayayayayaaya");

  $comment->data;              # 'yayayayayayaaya'
  $comment->length;            #  27
  $comment->substringData(13); # 'ya' 
  # etc.

DESCRIPTION

This class implements the Comment interface for HTML::DOM. It inherits from HTML::DOM::CharacterData, which inherits from HTML::DOM::Node.

METHODS

HTML::DOM::Comment's Own Methods

$text->nodeName

This returns '#comment'.

$text->nodeType

This returns the constant HTML::DOM::Node::COMMENT_NODE.

$text->starttag

An overridden version of HTML::Element's method, which returns the return value of data surrounded by <!-- -->.

$text->endtag

An overridden version of HTML::Element's method, which returns an empty string.

Inherited Methods

These are inherited from HTML::DOM::CharacterData:

data

length

length16

substringData

substringData16

appendData

insertData

insertData16

deleteData

deleteData16

replaceData

replaceData16

nodeValue

These are inherited from HTML::DOM::Node:

nodeValue

parentNode

childNodes

firstChild

lastChild

previousSibling

nextSibling

attributes

ownerDocument

insertBefore

replaceChild

removeChild

appendChild

hasChildNodes

cloneNode

SEE ALSO

HTML::DOM

HTML::DOM::CharacterData

HTML::DOM::Node