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Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces2 is a fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 processor. A partial experimental implementation of the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes Working Drafts (December 2009) and an experimental implementation of the XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010) are provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a complete implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described in section 2.13 of this specification. It also handles namespaces according to the XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation, and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level 3 load/save APIs are in use.

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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;

}