/*
 * Copyright (c) 2000 World Wide Web Consortium,
 * (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Institut National de
 * Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique, Keio University). All
 * Rights Reserved. This program is distributed under the W3C's Software
 * Intellectual Property License. This program is distributed 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.
 * See W3C License http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ for more details.
 */
using System;

namespace 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>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>.
     */
    public interface ProcessingInstruction : Node
    {
        /**
         * The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being 
         * the first token following the markup that begins the processing 
         * instruction.
         */
        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>.
         * @exception DOMException
         *   NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
         */
        String getData();
        void setData(String data);//                          throws DOMException;

    }
}