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>"?&gt;"</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>?&gt;</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>?&gt;</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    }