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40 */
41
42 package org.w3c.dom;
43
44 /**
45 * The <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> interface represents a "processing
46 * instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information
47 * in the text of the document.
48 * <p> No lexical check is done on the content of a processing instruction and
49 * it is therefore possible to have the character sequence
50 * <code>"?>"</code> in the content, which is illegal a processing
51 * instruction per section 2.6 of [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The
52 * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during
53 * serialization.
54 * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>.
55 */
56 public interface ProcessingInstruction extends Node {
57 /**
58 * The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being
59 * the first token following the markup that begins the processing
60 * instruction.
61 */
62 public String getTarget();
63
64 /**
65 * The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non
66 * white space character after the target to the character immediately
67 * preceding the <code>?></code>.
68 */
69 public String getData();
70
71 /**
72 * The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non
73 * white space character after the target to the character immediately
74 * preceding the <code>?></code>.
75 * @exception DOMException
76 * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
77 */
78 public void setData(String data) throws DOMException;
79
80 }
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