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package scala.xml

/** `SpecialNode` is a special XML node which represents either text
 *  `(PCDATA)`, a comment, a `PI`, or an entity ref.
 *
 *  `SpecialNode`s also play the role of [[scala.xml.pull.XMLEvent]]s for
 *  pull-parsing.
 *
 *  @author Burak Emir
 */
abstract class SpecialNode extends Node with pull.XMLEvent {

  /** always empty */
  final override def attributes = Null

  /** always Node.EmptyNamespace */
  final override def namespace = null

  /** always empty */
  final def child = Nil

  /** Append string representation to the given string buffer argument. */
  def buildString(sb: StringBuilder): StringBuilder
}
