Name

<?...?>

Synopsis

<? target attribute1 =" value " attribute2 =" value " ... ?>

Description

A processing instruction allows developers to place information specific to an outside application within the document. Processing instructions always begin with the characters <? and end with the characters ?>. For example:

<?works document="hello.doc" data="hello.wks"?>

You can create your own processing instructions if the XML application processing the document is aware of what the data means and acts accordingly.

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