public interface Comment extends CharacterData
CharacterData and 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.
  No lexical check is done on the content of a comment and it is
 therefore possible to have the character sequence "--"
 (double-hyphen) in the content, which is illegal in a comment per section
 2.5 of [XML 1.0]. The
 presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during
 serialization.
 
See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.
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