XML DOM - ProcessingInstruction object
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The ProcessingInstruction object represents a processing instruction.
DocumentType object
The ProcessingInstruction object can represent a processing instruction.
This rarely used interface represents a processing instruction (or PI) in an XML document. Programmers using HTML documents will not encounter the ProcessingInstruction node.
Processing instructions can be used as a method to retain processor custom information in the text of an XML document.
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Attributes of the ProcessingInstruction object
| Attributes | Description |
|---|---|
| data |
Sets or returns the content of this processing instruction. (i.e., the characters from the first non-space character after the target to the end character “?>”, but not including “?>”) |
| target |
Returns the target of this processing instruction. It is the first identifier after “<?”, specifying the processor for the processing instruction. |
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