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Processing instructions

A description of the processing instructions you may use in Content Editor

Processing instructions are used to embed different types of information. They are XML nodes with the opening a closing tags with a question mark (?) that look like this:
<?name content?>

Processing instructions cannot be nested.

xml and XML are reserved names for XML version 1.0 and onwards.

For example, most XML documents should start with a special processing instruction called the "prolog":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Another standard processing instruction can be used when you want to put a reference to your XSL transforms (stylesheet) in an XML document:

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="[pathToXSLStylesheet.xslt]"?>

Other names are for Content Editor -specific processing instructions

For example processing instructions are used for storing change tracking information:

<?xm-deletion_mark author='John Doe' time='20090519T153330+0000' data='users'?>