org.dom4j
Interface ProcessingInstruction

All Superinterfaces:

Cloneable, Node

public interface ProcessingInstruction
extends Node

ProcessingInstruction defines an XML processing instruction. The Node.getName()method will return the target of the PI and the Node.getText()method will return the data from all of the instructions.

Version:

$Revision: 1.10 $

Author:

James Strachan

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.dom4j.Node

ANY_NODE, ATTRIBUTE_NODE, CDATA_SECTION_NODE, COMMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_NODE, DOCUMENT_TYPE_NODE, ELEMENT_NODE, ENTITY_REFERENCE_NODE, MAX_NODE_TYPE, NAMESPACE_NODE, PROCESSING_INSTRUCTION_NODE, TEXT_NODE, UNKNOWN_NODE

Method Summary

String	getTarget() This method is the equivalent to the Node.getName()method.
String	getText() DOCUMENT ME!
String	getValue(String name) Returns the value of a specific name in the PI.
Map	getValues() DOCUMENT ME!
boolean	removeValue(String name)
void	setTarget(String target) This method is the equivalent to the Node.setName(java.lang.String)method.
void	setValue(String name, String value)
void	setValues(Map data)

Methods inherited from interface org.dom4j.Node

accept, asXML, asXPathResult, clone, createXPath, detach, getDocument, getName, getNodeType, getNodeTypeName, getParent, getPath, getPath, getStringValue, getUniquePath, getUniquePath, hasContent, isReadOnly, matches, numberValueOf, selectNodes, selectNodes, selectNodes, selectObject, selectSingleNode, setDocument, setName, setParent, setText, supportsParent, valueOf, write

Method Detail

getTarget

String getTarget()

This method is the equivalent to the Node.getName()method. It is added for clarity.

Returns:

the target of this PI

setTarget

void setTarget(String target)

This method is the equivalent to the Node.setName(java.lang.String)method. It is added for clarity.

Parameters:

target - DOCUMENT ME!

getText

String getText()

DOCUMENT ME!

Specified by:

getText in interface Node

Returns:

the text for all the data associated with the processing instruction

getValue

String getValue(String name)

Returns the value of a specific name in the PI.

Parameters:

name - is the name of the attribute to lookup.

Returns:

the value of the named attribute

getValues

Map getValues()

DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

the values for this processing instruction as a Map

setValue

void setValue(String name,
              String value)

setValues

void setValues(Map data)

removeValue

boolean removeValue(String name)