Root class for abstract syntax documentation tree nodes. It provides definitions for specific tree nodes as subclasses nested inside. Apart from the top-level DCDocComment node, generally nodes fall into three groups:

• Leaf nodes, such as DCIdentifier, DCText
• Inline tag nodes, such as DCLink, DCLiteral
• Block tag nodes, such as DCParam, DCThrows

Trees are typically wide and shallow, without a significant amount of nesting. Nodes have various associated positions:

• the position of the first character that is unique to this node, and not part of any child node
• the start of the range of characters for this node
• the "preferred" position in the range of characters for this node
• the end of the range of characters for this node

All values are relative to the beginning of the comment text in which they appear. To convert a value to the position in the enclosing source text, use DCDocComment#getSourcePosition(int).

This is NOT part of any supported API. If you write code that depends on this, you do so at your own risk. This code and its internal interfaces are subject to change or deletion without notice.