libjava/org/w3c/dom/ProcessingInstruction.java

   1 /*
   2  * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
   3  * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
   4  * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
   5  * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
   6  * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed in the
   7  * hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
   8  * the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
   9  * PURPOSE.
  10  * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
  11  */
  12
  13 package 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>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 2 Core Specification</a>.
  20  */
  21 public interface ProcessingInstruction extends Node {
  22     /**
  23      * The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being
  24      * the first token following the markup that begins the processing
  25      * instruction.
  26      */
  27     public String getTarget();
  28
  29     /**
  30      * The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non
  31      * white space character after the target to the character immediately
  32      * preceding the <code>?&gt;</code>.
  33      * @exception DOMException
  34      *   NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
  35      */
  36     public String getData();
  37     public void setData(String data)
  38                           throws DOMException;
  39
  40 }