Name

target: DOMString

Synopsis

Returns the target portion of this processing instruction. The target is the first whitespace-delimited token within the processing-instruction block.

Processing instructions are meant to embed application-specific instructions for automatic content generation, parsing, etc., within the XML stream. The instruction's target portion is the flag that allows different processing applications to coexist. Applications that use processing instructions for formatting should ignore processing instructions they do not recognize.

Java binding

public String getTarget( );
     
// Check to see if your application is targeted
if (pi.getTarget( ) =  = "MY_APPLICATION") {
    // do my application-specific processing here
}

Methods

ProcessingInstruction has no methods.