Text (Java Platform SE 8 )
Keywords: javax.xml.soap.Text interface
Date: 2026-07-22

javax.xml.soap

## Interface Text

- All Superinterfaces:
    CharacterData, Node, Text

      public interface Text
      extends Node, Text

  A representation of a node whose value is text. A `Text` object may represent text that is content or text that is a comment.

- - ### Field Summary

    - ### Fields inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

      `ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_FRAGMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINED_BY, DOCUMENT_POSITION_CONTAINS, DOCUMENT_POSITION_DISCONNECTED, DOCUMENT_POSITION_FOLLOWING, DOCUMENT_POSITION_IMPLEMENTATION_SPECIFIC, DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, NOTATION_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE`

  - ### Method Summary

    All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods
    Modifier and Type | Method and Description
    --- | ---
    `boolean` | `isComment()` Retrieves whether this `Text` object represents a comment.

    - ### Methods inherited from interface javax.xml.soap.Node

      `detachNode, getParentElement, getValue, recycleNode, setParentElement, setValue`

    - ### Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Text

      `getWholeText, isElementContentWhitespace, replaceWholeText, splitText`

    - ### Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.CharacterData

      `appendData, deleteData, getData, getLength, insertData, replaceData, setData, substringData`

    - ### Methods inherited from interface org.w3c.dom.Node

      `appendChild, cloneNode, compareDocumentPosition, getAttributes, getBaseURI, getChildNodes, getFeature, getFirstChild, getLastChild, getLocalName, getNamespaceURI, getNextSibling, getNodeName, getNodeType, getNodeValue, getOwnerDocument, getParentNode, getPrefix, getPreviousSibling, getTextContent, getUserData, hasAttributes, hasChildNodes, insertBefore, isDefaultNamespace, isEqualNode, isSameNode, isSupported, lookupNamespaceURI, lookupPrefix, normalize, removeChild, replaceChild, setNodeValue, setPrefix, setTextContent, setUserData`

- - ### Method Detail

    - #### isComment

          boolean isComment()

      Retrieves whether this `Text` object represents a comment.
      Returns:
        `true` if this `Text` object is a comment; `false` otherwise

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