XProcessingInstruction.Data Property

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml.Linq

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Xml.XDocument.dll

Source:

XProcessingInstruction.cs

Gets or sets the string value of this processing instruction.

public:
 property System::String ^ Data { System::String ^ get(); void set(System::String ^ value); };

public string Data { get; set; }

member this.Data : string with get, set

Public Property Data As String

Property Value

String

The string value of this processing instruction.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

The string value is null.

Examples

The following example uses the Data property to retrieve the string value of a processing instruction.

XProcessingInstruction pi =
    new XProcessingInstruction("xml-stylesheet", "type='text/xsl' href='hello.xsl'");
Console.WriteLine(pi.Data);
pi.Data = "type='text/xsl' href='xform.xsl'";
Console.WriteLine(pi.Data);

Dim pi As XProcessingInstruction = <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' href='hello.xsl'?>
Console.WriteLine(pi.Data)
pi.Data = "type='text/xsl' href='xform.xsl'"
Console.WriteLine(pi.Data)

This example produces the following output:

type='text/xsl' href='hello.xsl'
type='text/xsl' href='xform.xsl'

Remarks

You can use this property to modify an XML tree. This property will cause events to occur.

See also

• LINQ to XML overview