Interface ProcessingInstruction

All Superinterfaces:: XMLEvent, XMLStreamConstants

public interface ProcessingInstruction extends XMLEvent

An interface that describes the data found in processing instructions

Since:: 1.6

Field Summary

Fields declared in interface XMLStreamConstants

ATTRIBUTE, CDATA, CHARACTERS, COMMENT, DTD, END_DOCUMENT, END_ELEMENT, ENTITY_DECLARATION, ENTITY_REFERENCE, NAMESPACE, NOTATION_DECLARATION, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION, SPACE, START_DOCUMENT, START_ELEMENT

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
`String`	`getData()`	The data section of the processing instruction
`String`	`getTarget()`	The target section of the processing instruction

Methods declared in interface XMLEvent

asCharacters, asEndElement, asStartElement, getEventType, getLocation, getSchemaType, isAttribute, isCharacters, isEndDocument, isEndElement, isEntityReference, isNamespace, isProcessingInstruction, isStartDocument, isStartElement, writeAsEncodedUnicode

Method Details

getTarget

String getTarget()

The target section of the processing instruction

Returns:: the String value of the PI or null

getData

String getData()

The data section of the processing instruction

Returns:: the String value of the PI's data or null

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