XML::DOM::Comment - 📝 An XML comment in XML::DOM
| Use Case | Perl Code | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🔧 Create a new comment node | XML::DOM::Comment->new($doc, $data) |
Returns a new comment node with the given text |
| 📖 Get comment text | $comment->getData() |
Returns the string content of the comment (without <!-- and -->) |
| ✏️ Set comment text | $comment->setData($newdata) |
Replaces the entire comment content |
| ➕ Append to comment | $comment->appendData($string) |
Appends a string to the existing comment content |
| 🔍 Get node type | $comment->getNodeType() |
Returns COMMENT_NODE (constant 8) |
| 🔗 Get parent node | $comment->getParentNode() |
Returns the parent XML::DOM::Node or undef |
XML::DOM::Comment extends XML::DOM::CharacterData which extends XML::DOM::Node.
This node represents the content of a comment, i.e., all the characters between the starting
<!-- and ending -->. Note that this is the definition of a comment in XML, and, in practice,
HTML, although some HTML tools may implement the full SGML comment structure.
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