DOM - ProcessingInstruction Object Attribute - target

Quiz

The attribute target identifies the application to which the instruction or data is directed.

Syntax

Following is the syntax for the usage of the target attribute.

ProcessingInstruction.target

S.No.	Parameter & Description
1	target Identifies the application to which the instruction or data is directed.

Example

Following example demonstrates the usage of the target attribute −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
   <head>
      <script>
         // loads the xml string in a dom object
         function loadXMLString(t) {
            // for non IE browsers
            if (window.DOMParser) {
               // create an instance for xml dom object
               parser = new DOMParser();
               xmlDoc = parser.parseFromString(t,"text/xml");
            } else // code for IE {
               // create an instance for xml dom object
               xmlDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
               xmlDoc.async = false;
               xmlDoc.loadXML(t);
            }
            return xmlDoc;
         }
         function get_firstChild(p) {
            a = p.firstChild;
            return a;
         }
      </script>
   </head>
   <body>
      <script>
         var xml = "<Employee>";
         xml = xml+"<FirstName>";
         xml = xml+"<?piTarget piData more piData?>";
         xml = xml+"</FirstName>";
         
         xml = xml+"</Employee>";

         // calls the loadXMLString() with "text" function and store the xml dom in a variable
         var xmlDoc = loadXMLString(xml);

         var x = get_firstChild(xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName("FirstName")[0]);
         document.write("First child is : ");
         document.write(x.nodeName);

         //the following should be "piData more piData"
         alert(x.data);

         //the following should be "piTarget"
         alert(x.target);
      </script>
   </body>
</html>

Execution

Save this file as dom_processinginstruction_target.htm on the server path. We will get the output as shown below −

dom_processinginstruction_object.htm

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