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  package org.w3c.dom;
  
  import org.w3c.dom.DOMException;
  import org.w3c.dom.Node;
  
  /**
   * 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> No lexical check is done on the content of a processing instruction and
   * it is therefore possible to have the character sequence
   * <code>"?&gt;"</code> in the content, which is illegal a processing
   * instruction per section 2.6 of [<a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204'>XML 1.0</a>]. The
   * presence of this character sequence must generate a fatal error during
   * serialization.
   * <p>See also the <a href='http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-DOM-Level-3-Core-20040407'>Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification</a>.
   */
  public interface ProcessingInstruction extends Node {
      /**
       * The target of this processing instruction. XML defines this as being
       * the first token following the markup that begins the processing
       * instruction.
       */
      public 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>.
       */
      public String getData();
      /**
       * 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 org.w3c.dom.DOMException
       *   NO_MODIFICATION_ALLOWED_ERR: Raised when the node is readonly.
       */
      public void setData(String data)
                                     throws DOMException;
  
  }
  