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<h1 class="topictitle1">Editing XML processing instructions</h1>
<div><p>If you have instructions you want to send to an application using
an XML document, you can use a processing instruction. </p>
<div class="section"><p>To create a new processing instruction, right-click in the Design
view, and click <span class="uicontrol">Add Child</span>, <span class="uicontrol">Add Before</span> or <span class="uicontrol">Add
After</span>, then click <span class="uicontrol">Add Processing Instruction</span>.</p>
<p>To
edit a processing instruction in the XML editor Design view, right-click your
processing instruction, and click <span class="uicontrol">Edit Processing Instruction</span>.
You can change the values in the following fields:</p>
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<li>The <span class="uicontrol">Target</span> field is used to identify the application
the instructions belongs to.</li>
<li>The <span class="uicontrol">Data</span> field contains the instructions.</li>
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<div class="section">Click <span class="uicontrol">OK</span> to save your settings.<div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> These
instructions were written for the Resource perspective, but they will also
work in many other perspectives.</div>
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