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Table 15−32 describes the node types and their equivalent in the W3C DOM. The types are further explained
in the list that follows the table.
• Attribute nodes can have the following child node types: Text and EntityReference. The Attribute
node does not appear as the child node of any other node type. It is not considered a child node of an
Element.
• CDATA sections are used to escape blocks of text that would otherwise be recognized as markup. A
CDATA node cannot have any child nodes. It can appear as the child of the DocumentFragment,
EntityReference, and Element nodes.
• Comment nodes cannot have any child nodes. They can appear as the child of the Document,
DocumentFragment, Element, and EntityReference nodes.
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