1 /* 2 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, 3 * 4 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for 5 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This 6 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that 7 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 8 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 9 * 10 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 11 */ 12 13 package org.w3c.dom; 14 15 /** 16 * The <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> interface represents a "processing 17 * instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information 18 * in the text of the document. 19 * <p> No lexical check is done on the content of a processing instruction and 20 * it is therefore possible to have the character sequence 21 * <code>"?>"</code> in the content, which is illegal a processing 22 * instruction per section 2.6 of [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The 23 * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during 24 * serialization. 25 * <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>. 26 */ 27 public interface ProcessingInstruction extends Node { 28 /** 29 * The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being 30 * the first token following the markup that begins the processing 31 * instruction. 32 */ 33 public String getTarget(); 34 35 /** 36 * The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non 37 * white space character after the target to the character immediately 38 * preceding the <code>?></code>. 39 */ 40 public String getData(); 41 /** 42 * The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non 43 * white space character after the target to the character immediately 44 * preceding the <code>?></code>. 45 * @exception DOMException 46 * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly. 47 */ 48 public void setData(String data) 49 throws DOMException; 50 51 } 52
