.. _XML.processingInstructions:

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XML.processingInstructions
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   :ref:`XML` **processingInstructions** (:ref:`string` **name**)


Parameters
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| **name** | The name of the preprocessing instruction to return. |
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Description
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Returns a list of preprocessing instructions.

Collects processing-instructions with the given name, if supplied. Otherwise, returns an XML list containing all the children of this XML object that are processing-instructions regardless of their name.