ProcessingInstruction in DOM Level 2 Core

The ProcessingInstruction interface represents a processing instruction in the document.

Inherits from:

For official information please see http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/core.html#ID-1004215813.

Instance Properties

name type description
nodeName String (read only) [from Node]
nodeValue String [from Node]
nodeType Number (read only) [from Node]
parentNode Node (read only) [from Node]
childNodes NodeList (read only) [from Node]
firstChild Node (read only) [from Node]
lastChild Node (read only) [from Node]
previousSibling Node (read only) [from Node]
nextSibling Node (read only) [from Node]
attributes NamedNodeMap (read only) [from Node]
ownerDocument Document (read only) [from Node]
namespaceURI String (read only) [from Node]
prefix String [from Node]
localName String (read only) [from Node]
target String (read only)
data String

Instance Methods

name returns description
insertBefore() Node [from Node]
replaceChild() Node [from Node]
removeChild() Node [from Node]
appendChild() Node [from Node]
cloneNode() Node Return a new copy of the node. [from Node]
isSupported() Boolean [from Node]
hasChildNodes() Boolean [from Node]
normalize() (none) [from Node]
hasAttributes() Boolean [from Node]

Description

 The ProcessingInstruction interface represents a "processing instruction", used in XML as a way to keep processor-specific information in the text of the document.

Methods that return a ProcessingInstruction

name of object description
createProcessingInstruction() Document