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* Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
*
* (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
* Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
* work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
* it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
* warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
*
* [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
*/
package org.w3c.dom;
/**
* 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.
*/
public interface ProcessingInstruction extends Node {
/**
* The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being
* the first token following the markup that begins the processing
* instruction.
*/
public String getTarget();
/**
* 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 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 ?>.
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
*/
public void setData(String data)
throws DOMException;
}