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.

See also the Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification.

Inherited Constant Summary

Public Method Summary

abstract String
getData()
The content of this processing instruction.
abstract String
getTarget()
The target of this processing instruction.
abstract void
setData(String data)
The content of this processing instruction.

Inherited Method Summary

Public Methods

public abstract 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 abstract 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 abstract void setData (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 ?>.

Parameters
data
Throws
DOMException NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.