/*
 * Copyright (c) 2004 World Wide Web Consortium,
 *
 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, European Research Consortium for
 * Informatics and Mathematics, Keio University). All Rights Reserved. This
 * work is distributed under the W3C(r) Software License [1] in the hope that
 * it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
 * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 *
 * [1] http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/2002/copyright-software-20021231
 */

package org.w3c.dom;

/**
 * The <code>ProcessingInstruction</code> interface represents a "processing
 * instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information in
 * the text of the document.
 * <p>
 * No lexical check is done on the content of a processing instruction and it is
 * therefore possible to have the character sequence <code>"?&gt;"</code> in the
 * content, which is illegal a processing instruction per section 2.6 of [<a
 * href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The presence
 * of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during serialization.
 * <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>.
 */
public interface ProcessingInstruction extends Node {
	/**
	 * The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being the
	 * first token following the markup that begins the processing instruction.
	 */
	public String getTarget();

	/**
	 * The content of this processing instruction. This is from the first non
	 * white space character after the target to the character immediately
	 * preceding the <code>?&gt;</code>.
	 */
	public String 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 <code>?&gt;</code>.
	 * 
	 * @exception DOMException
	 *                NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is
	 *                readonly.
	 */
	public void setData(String data) throws DOMException;

}
