ProcessingInstruction

The ProcessingInstruction interface represents a processing instruction; that is, a Node which embeds an instruction targeting a specific application but that can be ignored by any other applications which don't recognize the instruction.

Warning: ProcessingInstruction nodes are only supported in XML documents, not in HTML documents. In these, a process instruction will be considered as a comment and be represented as a Comment object in the tree.

A processing instruction may be different than the XML declaration.

Note: User-defined processing instructions cannot begin with "xml", as xml-prefixed processing-instruction target names are reserved by the XML specification for particular, standard uses (see, for example, <?xml-stylesheet ?>.

For example:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

is a processing instruction whose targetis xml.

EventTarget Node CharacterData ProcessingInstruction

Properties

This interface also inherits properties from its parent interfaces, CharacterData, Node, and EventTarget.

ProcessingInstruction.target Read only

A name identifying the application to which the instruction is targeted.

Methods

This interface doesn't have any specific property, but inherits properties from its parent interfaces, CharacterData, Node, and EventTarget.

Specifications

Specification
DOM Standard
# interface-processinginstruction

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See also