Class: REXML::Comment
| Relationships & Source Files | |
| Super Chains via Extension / Inclusion / Inheritance | |
| Class Chain: 
          self,
           Child | |
| Instance Chain: | |
| Inherits: | REXML::Child 
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| Defined in: | lib/rexml/comment.rb | 
Overview
Represents an XML comment; that is, text between <!– … –>
Constant Summary
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    START =
    
 # File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 9"<!--"
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    STOP =
    
 # File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 10"-->"
Class Method Summary
Instance Attribute Summary
Child - Inherited
| #next_sibling | Alias for Node#next_sibling_node. | 
| #next_sibling= | Sets the next sibling of this child. | 
| #parent | The Parent of this object. | 
| #parent= | Sets the parent of this child to the supplied argument. | 
| #previous_sibling | Alias for Node#previous_sibling_node. | 
| #previous_sibling= | Sets the previous sibling of this child. | 
Node - Included
Instance Method Summary
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      #<=>(other)  
    
    Compares this Commentto another; the contents of the comment are used in the comparison.
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      #==(other)  
    
    Compares this Commentto another; the contents of the comment are used in the comparison.
- #clone
- #node_type
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      #write(output, indent = -1,, transitive = false, ie_hack = false)  
    
    DEPRECATED See Formatters
Child - Inherited
| #bytes | This doesn’t yet handle encodings. | 
| #document | 
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| #remove | Removes this child from the parent. | 
| #replace_with | Replaces this object with another object. | 
Node - Included
| #each_recursive | Visit all subnodes of  | 
| #find_first_recursive | Find (and return) first subnode (recursively) for which the block evaluates to true. | 
| #indent, | |
| #index_in_parent | Returns the position that  | 
| #next_sibling_node, #previous_sibling_node, | |
| #to_s | 
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Constructor Details
    .new(first, second = nil)  ⇒ Comment 
  
# File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 24
def initialize( first, second = nil ) super(second) if first.kind_of? String @string = first elsif first.kind_of? Comment @string = first.string end end
Instance Attribute Details
#string (rw) Also known as: #to_s
The content text
# File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 14
attr_accessor :string
#to_s (readonly)
Alias for #string.
# File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 58
alias :to_s :string
Instance Method Details
#<=>(other)
Compares this Comment to another; the contents of the comment are used in the comparison.
# File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 63
def <=>(other) other.to_s <=> @string end
#==(other)
Compares this Comment to another; the contents of the comment are used in the comparison.
# File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 70
def ==( other ) other.kind_of? Comment and (other <=> self) == 0 end
#clone
[ GitHub ]# File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 33
def clone Comment.new self end
#node_type
[ GitHub ]# File 'lib/rexml/comment.rb', line 75
def node_type :comment end
#write(output, indent = -1,, transitive = false, ie_hack = false)
DEPRECATED
See Formatters
- output
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Where to write the string 
- indent
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An integer. If -1, no indenting will be used; otherwise, the indentation will be this number of spaces, and children will be indented an additional amount. 
- transitive
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Ignored by this class. The contents of comments are never modified. 
- ie_hack
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Needed for conformity to the child API, but not used by this class.