001 /* 002 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium, 003 * 004 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for 005 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This 006 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that 007 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied 008 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 009 * 010 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231 011 */ 012 013 package org.w3c.dom; 014 015 /** 016 * The <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> interface represents a "processing 017 * instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information 018 * in the text of the document. 019 * <p> No lexical check is done on the content of a processing instruction and 020 * it is therefore possible to have the character sequence 021 * <code>"?>"</code> in the content, which is illegal a processing 022 * instruction per section 2.6 of [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The 023 * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during 024 * serialization. 025 * <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>. 026 */ 027 public interface ProcessingInstruction extends Node { 028 /** 029 * The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being 030 * the first token following the markup that begins the processing 031 * instruction. 032 */ 033 public String getTarget(); 034 035 /** 036 * The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non 037 * white space character after the target to the character immediately 038 * preceding the <code>?></code>. 039 */ 040 public String getData(); 041 /** 042 * The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non 043 * white space character after the target to the character immediately 044 * preceding the <code>?></code>. 045 * @exception DOMException 046 * NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly. 047 */ 048 public void setData(String data) 049 throws DOMException; 050 051 }