gomp-20050608-branch/libjava/classpath/external/w3c_dom/org/w3c/dom/ProcessingInstruction.java

   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
  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> 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  */
  27 public 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 }