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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition
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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, Fourth Edition

by David Flanagan
November 2001
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
936 pages
68h 43m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

ProcessingInstruction — a processing instruction in an XML document

Availability

DOM Level 1 XML

Inherits from/Overrides

Node ProcessingInstruction

Properties

String data

The content of the processing instruction (i.e., the first non-space character after the target up to but not including the closing ?>).

readonly String target

The target of the processing instruction. This is the first identifier that follows the opening <?; it specifies the “processor” for which the processing instruction is intended.

Description

This infrequently used interface represents a processing instruction (or PI) in an XML document. Programmers working with HTML documents will never encounter a ProcessingInstruction node.

See Also

Returned by

Document.createProcessingInstruction( )

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