/*
 * DomComment.java
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package gnu.xml.dom;

import org.w3c.dom.*;


/**
 * <p> "Comment" implementation.
 * Comments hold data intended for direct consumption by people;
 * programs should only use ProcessingInstruction nodes.  Note that
 * since SAX makes comment reporting optional, XML systems that
 * rely on comments (such as by using this class) will often lose
 * those comments at some point in the processing pipeline. </p>
 *
 * @author David Brownell
 */
public class DomComment extends DomCharacterData implements Comment
{
    /**
     * Constructs a comment node associated with the specified
     * document and holding the specified data.
     *
     * <p>This constructor should only be invoked by a Document as part of
     * its createComment functionality, or through a subclass which is
     * similarly used in a "Sub-DOM" style layer.
     */
    protected DomComment (Document owner, String value)
    {
	super (owner, value);
    }


    /**
     * <b>DOM L1</b>
     * Returns the string "#comment".
     */
    final public String getNodeName ()
    {
	return "#comment";
    }

    /**
     * <b>DOM L1</b>
     * Returns the constant COMMENT_NODE.
     */
    final public short getNodeType ()
	{ return COMMENT_NODE; }
}