ProcessingInstruction

public interface ProcessingInstruction
implements Node

org.w3c.dom.ProcessingInstruction


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.

Summary

Inherited constants

Public methods

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 methods

Public methods

getData

Added in API level 1
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 ?>.

Returns
String

getTarget

Added in API level 1
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.

Returns
String

setData

Added in API level 1
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 String

Throws
DOMException NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.