Comment.java

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package org.esigate.esi;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.esigate.HttpErrorPage;
import org.esigate.parser.ElementType;
import org.esigate.parser.ParserContext;

/**
 * This is a special construct to allow HTML marked up with ESI to render without processing. ESI Processors will remove
 * the start ("<!--esi") and end ("-->") when the page is processed, while still processing the contents. If the
 * page is not processed, it will remain, becoming an HTML/XML comment tag.
 * 
 * @author Francois-Xavier Bonnet
 * @see <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/esi-lang">ESI Language Specification 1.0</a>
 * 
 */
class Comment extends BaseElement {
    public static final ElementType TYPE = new BaseElementType("<!--esi", "-->") {
        @Override
        public Comment newInstance() {
            return new Comment();
        }

        @Override
        public boolean isSelfClosing(String tag) {
            return false;
        }

    };

    Comment() {
    }

    @Override
    public boolean onTagStart(String tag, ParserContext ctx) throws IOException, HttpErrorPage {
        // do not try to parse tag string
        super.onTagStart("<esi!-->", ctx);
        return true;
    }

    @Override
    public void onTagEnd(String tag, ParserContext ctx) {
        // Nothing to do
    }
}