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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 <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> interface represents a "processing
* instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information
* in the text of the document.
* <p> No lexical check is done on the content of a processing instruction and
* it is therefore possible to have the character sequence
* <code>"?&gt;"</code> in the content, which is illegal a processing
* instruction per section 2.6 of [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The
* presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during
* serialization.
* <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>.
*/
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 <code>?&gt;</code>.
*/
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 <code>?&gt;</code>.
* @exception DOMException
* NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
*/
public void setData(String data)
throws DOMException;
}