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
13package 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>"?&gt;"</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 */
27public 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>?&gt;</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>?&gt;</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