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ProcessingInstruction.java API Doc Java SE 5 API 2207 Fri Aug 26 14:58:38 BST 2005 org.w3c.dom

ProcessingInstruction

public interface ProcessingInstruction implements Node

The ProcessingInstruction interface represents a "processing instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information in the text of the document.

No lexical check is done on the content of a processing instruction and it is therefore possible to have the character sequence "?>" in the content, which is illegal a processing instruction per section 2.6 of [XML 1.0]. The presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during serialization.

Fields Summary
Constructors Summary
Methods Summary
public java.lang.String getData()
The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non white space character after the target to the character immediately preceding the ?>.
public java.lang.String getTarget()
The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being the first token following the markup that begins the processing instruction.
public void setData(java.lang.String data)
The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non white space character after the target to the character immediately preceding the ?>.
exception
DOMException NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.