ProcessingInstruction (Org.W3C.DOM Package)

Extends Node. The ProcessingInstruction interface represents a "processing instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information in the text of the document. .

See the following for methods.

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 ?>.

Syntax:

public java.lang.String getData()

Throws:

DOMException - NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is Read-only.

getTarget

The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being the first token following the markup that begins the processing instruction.

Syntax:

public java.lang.String getTarget()

setData

Syntax:

public void setData(java.lang.String data)
             throws DOMException