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package org.jdom;

/**
 * Character-based XML content. Provides a modular, parentable method of
 * representing text. Text makes no guarantees about the underlying textual
 * representation of character data, but does expose that data as a Java String.
 *
 * @version $Revision: 1.25 $, $Date: 2007/11/10 05:28:59 $
 * @author  Brett McLaughlin
 * @author  Jason Hunter
 * @author  Bradley S. Huffman
 */
public class Text extends Content {

    static final String EMPTY_STRING = "";

    /** The actual character content */
    // XXX See http://www.servlets.com/archive/servlet/ReadMsg?msgId=8612
    // from elharo for a description of why Java characters may not suffice
    // long term
    protected String value;

    /**
     * This is the protected, no-args constructor standard in all JDOM
     * classes. It allows subclassers to get a raw instance with no
     * initialization.
     */
    protected Text() { }

    /**
     * This constructor creates a new <code>Text</code> node, with the
     * supplied string value as it's character content.
     *
     * @param str the node's character content.
     * @throws IllegalDataException if <code>str</code> contains an
     *         illegal character such as a vertical tab (as determined
     *         by {@link org.jdom.Verifier#checkCharacterData})
     */
    public Text(String str) {
        setText(str);
    }

    /**
     * This returns the value of this <code>Text</code> node as a Java
     * <code>String</code>.
     *
     * @return <code>String</code> - character content of this node.
     */
    public String getText() {
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * This will set the value of this <code>Text</code> node.
     *
     * @param str value for node's content.
     * @return the object on which the method was invoked
     * @throws IllegalDataException if <code>str</code> contains an
     *         illegal character such as a vertical tab (as determined
     *         by {@link org.jdom.Verifier#checkCharacterData})
     */
    public Text setText(String str) {
        String reason;

        if (str == null) {
            value = EMPTY_STRING;
            return this;
        }

        if ((reason = Verifier.checkCharacterData(str)) != null) {
            throw new IllegalDataException(str, "character content", reason);
        }
        value = str;
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * This will append character content to whatever content already
     * exists within this <code>Text</code> node.
     *
     * @param str character content to append.
     * @throws IllegalDataException if <code>str</code> contains an
     *         illegal character such as a vertical tab (as determined
     *         by {@link org.jdom.Verifier#checkCharacterData})
     */
    public void append(String str) {
        String reason;

        if (str == null) {
            return;
        }
        if ((reason = Verifier.checkCharacterData(str)) != null) {
            throw new IllegalDataException(str, "character content", reason);
        }

        if (str.length() > 0) {
             value += str;
        }
    }

    /**
     * This will append the content of another <code>Text</code> node
     * to this node.
     *
     * @param text Text node to append.
     */
    public void append(Text text) {
        if (text == null) {
            return;
        }
        value += text.getText();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the XPath 1.0 string value of this element, which is the
     * text itself.
     *
     * @return the text
     */
    public String getValue() {
        return value;
    }

    /**
     * This returns a <code>String</code> representation of the
     * <code>Text</code> node, suitable for debugging. If the XML
     * representation of the <code>Text</code> node is desired,
     * either <code>{@link #getText}</code> or
     * {@link org.jdom.output.XMLOutputter#outputString(Text)}</code>
     * should be used.
     *
     * @return <code>String</code> - information about this node.
     */
    public String toString() {
        return new StringBuffer(64)
            .append("[Text: ")
            .append(getText())
            .append("]")
            .toString();
    }

    /**
     * This will return a clone of this <code>Text</code> node, with the
     * same character content, but no parent.
     *
     * @return <code>Text</code> - cloned node.
     */
    public Object clone() {
        Text text = (Text)super.clone();
        text.value = value;
        return text;
    }

}
