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- <!ENTITY doc.date "10 February 1998">
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- <!ENTITY draft.month "February">
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- <!ENTITY doc.distribution "may be distributed freely, as long as
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- http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.xml</loc>
- <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.html">
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- http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</loc>
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- <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208">
- http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208</loc>
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- http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114</loc>
- <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331'>
- http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331</loc>
- <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970630'>
- http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970630</loc>
- <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-970807'>
- http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-970807</loc>
- <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-971117'>
- http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-971117</loc>-->
- </prevlocs>
- <authlist>
- <author><name>Tim Bray</name>
- <affiliation>Textuality and Netscape</affiliation>
- <email href="mailto:tbray@textuality.com">tbray@textuality.com</email></author>
- <author><name>Jean Paoli</name>
- <affiliation>Microsoft</affiliation>
- <email href="mailto:jeanpa@microsoft.com">jeanpa@microsoft.com</email></author>
- <author><name>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen</name>
- <affiliation>University of Illinois at Chicago</affiliation>
- <email href="mailto:cmsmcq@uic.edu">cmsmcq@uic.edu</email></author>
- </authlist>
- <abstract>
- <p>The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of
- SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to
- enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web
- in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for
- ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and
- HTML.</p>
- </abstract>
- <status>
- <p>This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and
- other interested parties and has been endorsed by the
- Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable
- document and may be used as reference material or cited
- as a normative reference from another document. W3C's
- role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention
- to the specification and to promote its widespread
- deployment. This enhances the functionality and
- interoperability of the Web.</p>
- <p>
- This document specifies a syntax created by subsetting an existing,
- widely used international text processing standard (Standard
- Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986(E) as amended and
- corrected) for use on the World Wide Web. It is a product of the W3C
- XML Activity, details of which can be found at <loc href="http://www.w3.org/XML">http://www.w3.org/XML</loc>. A list of
- current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found
- at <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR">http://www.w3.org/TR</loc>.
- </p>
- <p>This specification uses the term URI, which is defined by <bibref ref="Berners-Lee"/>, a work in progress expected to update <bibref ref="RFC1738"/> and <bibref ref="RFC1808"/>.
- </p>
- <p>The list of known errors in this specification is
- available at
- <loc href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata">http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata</loc>.</p>
- <p>Please report errors in this document to
- <loc href="mailto:xml-editor@w3.org">xml-editor@w3.org</loc>.
- </p>
- </status>
- <pubstmt>
- <p>Chicago, Vancouver, Mountain View, et al.:
- World-Wide Web Consortium, XML Working Group, 1996, 1997.</p>
- </pubstmt>
- <sourcedesc>
- <p>Created in electronic form.</p>
- </sourcedesc>
- <langusage>
- <language id="EN">English</language>
- <language id="ebnf">Extended Backus-Naur Form (formal grammar)</language>
- </langusage>
- <revisiondesc>
- <slist>
- <sitem>1997-12-03 : CMSMcQ : yet further changes</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-12-02 : TB : further changes (see TB to XML WG,
- 2 December 1997)</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-12-02 : CMSMcQ : deal with as many corrections and
- comments from the proofreaders as possible:
- entify hard-coded document date in pubdate element,
- change expansion of entity WebSGML,
- update status description as per Dan Connolly (am not sure
- about refernece to Berners-Lee et al.),
- add 'The' to abstract as per WG decision,
- move Relationship to Existing Standards to back matter and
- combine with References,
- re-order back matter so normative appendices come first,
- re-tag back matter so informative appendices are tagged informdiv1,
- remove XXX XXX from list of 'normative' specs in prose,
- move some references from Other References to Normative References,
- add RFC 1738, 1808, and 2141 to Other References (they are not
- normative since we do not require the processor to enforce any
- rules based on them),
- add reference to 'Fielding draft' (Berners-Lee et al.),
- move notation section to end of body,
- drop URIchar non-terminal and use SkipLit instead,
- lose stray reference to defunct nonterminal 'markupdecls',
- move reference to Aho et al. into appendix (Tim's right),
- add prose note saying that hash marks and fragment identifiers are
- NOT part of the URI formally speaking, and are NOT legal in
- system identifiers (processor 'may' signal an error).
- Work through:
- Tim Bray reacting to James Clark,
- Tim Bray on his own,
- Eve Maler,
- NOT DONE YET:
- change binary / text to unparsed / parsed.
- handle James's suggestion about < in attriubte values
- uppercase hex characters,
- namechar list,
- </sitem>
- <sitem>1997-12-01 : JB : add some column-width parameters</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-12-01 : CMSMcQ : begin round of changes to incorporate
- recent WG decisions and other corrections:
- binding sources of character encoding info (27 Aug / 3 Sept),
- correct wording of Faust quotation (restore dropped line),
- drop SDD from EncodingDecl,
- change text at version number 1.0,
- drop misleading (wrong!) sentence about ignorables and extenders,
- modify definition of PCData to make bar on msc grammatical,
- change grammar's handling of internal subset (drop non-terminal markupdecls),
- change definition of includeSect to allow conditional sections,
- add integral-declaration constraint on internal subset,
- drop misleading / dangerous sentence about relationship of
- entities with system storage objects,
- change table body tag to htbody as per EM change to DTD,
- add rule about space normalization in public identifiers,
- add description of how to generate our name-space rules from
- Unicode character database (needs further work!).
- </sitem>
- <sitem>1997-10-08 : TB : Removed %-constructs again, new rules
- for PE appearance.</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-10-01 : TB : Case-sensitive markup; cleaned up
- element-type defs, lotsa little edits for style</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-09-25 : TB : Change to elm's new DTD, with
- substantial detail cleanup as a side-effect</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-07-24 : CMSMcQ : correct error (lost *) in definition
- of ignoreSectContents (thanks to Makoto Murata)</sitem>
- <sitem>Allow all empty elements to have end-tags, consistent with
- SGML TC (as per JJC).</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-07-23 : CMSMcQ : pre-emptive strike on pending corrections:
- introduce the term 'empty-element tag', note that all empty elements
- may use it, and elements declared EMPTY must use it.
- Add WFC requiring encoding decl to come first in an entity.
- Redefine notations to point to PIs as well as binary entities.
- Change autodetection table by removing bytes 3 and 4 from
- examples with Byte Order Mark.
- Add content model as a term and clarify that it applies to both
- mixed and element content.
- </sitem>
- <sitem>1997-06-30 : CMSMcQ : change date, some cosmetic changes,
- changes to productions for choice, seq, Mixed, NotationType,
- Enumeration. Follow James Clark's suggestion and prohibit
- conditional sections in internal subset. TO DO: simplify
- production for ignored sections as a result, since we don't
- need to worry about parsers which don't expand PErefs finding
- a conditional section.</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-06-29 : TB : various edits</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-06-29 : CMSMcQ : further changes:
- Suppress old FINAL EDIT comments and some dead material.
- Revise occurrences of % in grammar to exploit Henry Thompson's pun,
- especially markupdecl and attdef.
- Remove RMD requirement relating to element content (?).
- </sitem>
- <sitem>1997-06-28 : CMSMcQ : Various changes for 1 July draft:
- Add text for draconian error handling (introduce
- the term Fatal Error).
- RE deleta est (changing wording from
- original announcement to restrict the requirement to validating
- parsers).
- Tag definition of validating processor and link to it.
- Add colon as name character.
- Change def of %operator.
- Change standard definitions of lt, gt, amp.
- Strip leading zeros from #x00nn forms.</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-04-02 : CMSMcQ : final corrections of editorial errors
- found in last night's proofreading. Reverse course once more on
- well-formed: Webster's Second hyphenates it, and that's enough
- for me.</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-04-01 : CMSMcQ : corrections from JJC, EM, HT, and self</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-03-31 : Tim Bray : many changes</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-03-29 : CMSMcQ : some Henry Thompson (on entity handling),
- some Charles Goldfarb, some ERB decisions (PE handling in miscellaneous
- declarations. Changed Ident element to accept def attribute.
- Allow normalization of Unicode characters. move def of systemliteral
- into section on literals.</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-03-28 : CMSMcQ : make as many corrections as possible, from
- Terry Allen, Norbert Mikula, James Clark, Jon Bosak, Henry Thompson,
- Paul Grosso, and self. Among other things: give in on "well formed"
- (Terry is right), tentatively rename QuotedCData as AttValue
- and Literal as EntityValue to be more informative, since attribute
- values are the <emph>only</emph> place QuotedCData was used, and
- vice versa for entity text and Literal. (I'd call it Entity Text,
- but 8879 uses that name for both internal and external entities.)</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-03-26 : CMSMcQ : resynch the two forks of this draft, reapply
- my changes dated 03-20 and 03-21. Normalize old 'may not' to 'must not'
- except in the one case where it meant 'may or may not'.</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-03-21 : TB : massive changes on plane flight from Chicago
- to Vancouver</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-03-21 : CMSMcQ : correct as many reported errors as possible.
- </sitem>
- <sitem>1997-03-20 : CMSMcQ : correct typos listed in CMSMcQ hand copy of spec.</sitem>
- <sitem>1997-03-20 : CMSMcQ : cosmetic changes preparatory to revision for
- WWW conference April 1997: restore some of the internal entity
- references (e.g. to docdate, etc.), change character xA0 to &nbsp;
- and define nbsp as &#160;, and refill a lot of paragraphs for
- legibility.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-11-12 : CMSMcQ : revise using Tim's edits:
- Add list type of NUMBERED and change most lists either to
- BULLETS or to NUMBERED.
- Suppress QuotedNames, Names (not used).
- Correct trivial-grammar doc type decl.
- Rename 'marked section' as 'CDATA section' passim.
- Also edits from James Clark:
- Define the set of characters from which [^abc] subtracts.
- Charref should use just [0-9] not Digit.
- Location info needs cleaner treatment: remove? (ERB
- question).
- One example of a PI has wrong pic.
- Clarify discussion of encoding names.
- Encoding failure should lead to unspecified results; don't
- prescribe error recovery.
- Don't require exposure of entity boundaries.
- Ignore white space in element content.
- Reserve entity names of the form u-NNNN.
- Clarify relative URLs.
- And some of my own:
- Correct productions for content model: model cannot
- consist of a name, so "elements ::= cp" is no good.
- </sitem>
- <sitem>1996-11-11 : CMSMcQ : revise for style.
- Add new rhs to entity declaration, for parameter entities.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-11-10 : CMSMcQ : revise for style.
- Fix / complete section on names, characters.
- Add sections on parameter entities, conditional sections.
- Still to do: Add compatibility note on deterministic content models.
- Finish stylistic revision.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-31 : TB : Add Entity Handling section</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-30 : TB : Clean up term & termdef. Slip in
- ERB decision re EMPTY.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-28 : TB : Change DTD. Implement some of Michael's
- suggestions. Change comments back to //. Introduce language for
- XML namespace reservation. Add section on white-space handling.
- Lots more cleanup.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-24 : CMSMcQ : quick tweaks, implement some ERB
- decisions. Characters are not integers. Comments are /* */ not //.
- Add bibliographic refs to 10646, HyTime, Unicode.
- Rename old Cdata as MsData since it's <emph>only</emph> seen
- in marked sections. Call them attribute-value pairs not
- name-value pairs, except once. Internal subset is optional, needs
- '?'. Implied attributes should be signaled to the app, not
- have values supplied by processor.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-16 : TB : track down & excise all DSD references;
- introduce some EBNF for entity declarations.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-?? : TB : consistency check, fix up scraps so
- they all parse, get formatter working, correct a few productions.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-10/11 : CMSMcQ : various maintenance, stylistic, and
- organizational changes:
- Replace a few literals with xmlpio and
- pic entities, to make them consistent and ensure we can change pic
- reliably when the ERB votes.
- Drop paragraph on recognizers from notation section.
- Add match, exact match to terminology.
- Move old 2.2 XML Processors and Apps into intro.
- Mention comments, PIs, and marked sections in discussion of
- delimiter escaping.
- Streamline discussion of doctype decl syntax.
- Drop old section of 'PI syntax' for doctype decl, and add
- section on partial-DTD summary PIs to end of Logical Structures
- section.
- Revise DSD syntax section to use Tim's subset-in-a-PI
- mechanism.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-10 : TB : eliminate name recognizers (and more?)</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-09 : CMSMcQ : revise for style, consistency through 2.3
- (Characters)</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-09 : CMSMcQ : re-unite everything for convenience,
- at least temporarily, and revise quickly</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-08 : TB : first major homogenization pass</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-08 : TB : turn "current" attribute on div type into
- CDATA</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-10-02 : TB : remould into skeleton + entities</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-09-30 : CMSMcQ : add a few more sections prior to exchange
- with Tim.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-09-20 : CMSMcQ : finish transcribing notes.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-09-19 : CMSMcQ : begin transcribing notes for draft.</sitem>
- <sitem>1996-09-13 : CMSMcQ : made outline from notes of 09-06,
- do some housekeeping</sitem>
- </slist>
- </revisiondesc>
- </header>
- <body>
- <div1 id="sec-intro">
- <head>Introduction</head>
- <p>Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes a class of
- data objects called <termref def="dt-xml-doc">XML documents</termref> and
- partially describes the behavior of
- computer programs which process them. XML is an application profile or
- restricted form of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup
- Language <bibref ref="ISO8879"/>.
- By construction, XML documents
- are conforming SGML documents.
- </p>
- <p>XML documents are made up of storage units called <termref def="dt-entity">entities</termref>, which contain either parsed
- or unparsed data.
- Parsed data is made up of <termref def="dt-character">characters</termref>,
- some
- of which form <termref def="dt-chardata">character data</termref>,
- and some of which form <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>.
- Markup encodes a description of the document's storage layout and
- logical structure. XML provides a mechanism to impose constraints on
- the storage layout and logical structure.</p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-xml-proc" term="XML Processor">A software module
- called an <term>XML processor</term> is used to read XML documents
- and provide access to their content and structure.</termdef> <termdef id="dt-app" term="Application">It is assumed that an XML processor is
- doing its work on behalf of another module, called the
- <term>application</term>.</termdef> This specification describes the
- required behavior of an XML processor in terms of how it must read XML
- data and the information it must provide to the application.</p>
-
- <div2 id="sec-origin-goals">
- <head>Origin and Goals</head>
- <p>XML was developed by an XML Working Group (originally known as the
- SGML Editorial Review Board) formed under the auspices of the World
- Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1996.
- It was chaired by Jon Bosak of Sun
- Microsystems with the active participation of an XML Special
- Interest Group (previously known as the SGML Working Group) also
- organized by the W3C. The membership of the XML Working Group is given
- in an appendix. Dan Connolly served as the WG's contact with the W3C.
- </p>
- <p>The design goals for XML are:<olist>
- <item><p>XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the
- Internet.</p></item>
- <item><p>XML shall support a wide variety of applications.</p></item>
- <item><p>XML shall be compatible with SGML.</p></item>
- <item><p>It shall be easy to write programs which process XML
- documents.</p></item>
- <item><p>The number of optional features in XML is to be kept to the
- absolute minimum, ideally zero.</p></item>
- <item><p>XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably
- clear.</p></item>
- <item><p>The XML design should be prepared quickly.</p></item>
- <item><p>The design of XML shall be formal and concise.</p></item>
- <item><p>XML documents shall be easy to create.</p></item>
- <item><p>Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance.</p></item></olist>
- </p>
- <p>This specification,
- together with associated standards
- (Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 for characters,
- Internet RFC 1766 for language identification tags,
- ISO 639 for language name codes, and
- ISO 3166 for country name codes),
- provides all the information necessary to understand
- XML Version &XML.version;
- and construct computer programs to process it.</p>
- <p>This version of the XML specification
- <!-- is for &doc.audience;.-->
- &doc.distribution;.</p>
- </div2>
-
-
- <div2 id="sec-terminology">
- <head>Terminology</head>
-
- <p>The terminology used to describe XML documents is defined in the body of
- this specification.
- The terms defined in the following list are used in building those
- definitions and in describing the actions of an XML processor:
- <glist>
- <gitem>
- <label>may</label>
- <def><p><termdef id="dt-may" term="May">Conforming documents and XML
- processors are permitted to but need not behave as
- described.</termdef></p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>must</label>
- <def><p>Conforming documents and XML processors
- are required to behave as described; otherwise they are in error.
- <!-- do NOT change this! this is what defines a violation of
- a 'must' clause as 'an error'. -MSM -->
- </p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>error</label>
- <def><p><termdef id="dt-error" term="Error">A violation of the rules of this
- specification; results are
- undefined. Conforming software may detect and report an error and may
- recover from it.</termdef></p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>fatal error</label>
- <def><p><termdef id="dt-fatal" term="Fatal Error">An error
- which a conforming <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref>
- must detect and report to the application.
- After encountering a fatal error, the
- processor may continue
- processing the data to search for further errors and may report such
- errors to the application. In order to support correction of errors,
- the processor may make unprocessed data from the document (with
- intermingled character data and markup) available to the application.
- Once a fatal error is detected, however, the processor must not
- continue normal processing (i.e., it must not
- continue to pass character data and information about the document's
- logical structure to the application in the normal way).
- </termdef></p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>at user option</label>
- <def><p>Conforming software may or must (depending on the modal verb in the
- sentence) behave as described; if it does, it must
- provide users a means to enable or disable the behavior
- described.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>validity constraint</label>
- <def><p>A rule which applies to all
- <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> XML documents.
- Violations of validity constraints are errors; they must, at user option,
- be reported by
- <termref def="dt-validating">validating XML processors</termref>.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>well-formedness constraint</label>
- <def><p>A rule which applies to all <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> XML documents.
- Violations of well-formedness constraints are
- <termref def="dt-fatal">fatal errors</termref>.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>match</label>
- <def><p><termdef id="dt-match" term="match">(Of strings or names:)
- Two strings or names being compared must be identical.
- Characters with multiple possible representations in ISO/IEC 10646 (e.g.
- characters with
- both precomposed and base+diacritic forms) match only if they have the
- same representation in both strings.
- At user option, processors may normalize such characters to
- some canonical form.
- No case folding is performed.
- (Of strings and rules in the grammar:)
- A string matches a grammatical production if it belongs to the
- language generated by that production.
- (Of content and content models:)
- An element matches its declaration when it conforms
- in the fashion described in the constraint
- <specref ref="elementvalid"/>.
- </termdef>
- </p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>for compatibility</label>
- <def><p><termdef id="dt-compat" term="For Compatibility">A feature of
- XML included solely to ensure that XML remains compatible with SGML.
- </termdef></p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>for interoperability</label>
- <def><p><termdef id="dt-interop" term="For interoperability">A
- non-binding recommendation included to increase the chances that XML
- documents can be processed by the existing installed base of SGML
- processors which predate the
- &WebSGML;.</termdef></p></def>
- </gitem>
- </glist>
- </p>
- </div2>
-
- </div1>
- <!-- &Docs; -->
-
- <div1 id="sec-documents">
- <head>Documents</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-xml-doc" term="XML Document">
- A data object is an
- <term>XML document</term> if it is
- <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref>, as
- defined in this specification.
- A well-formed XML document may in addition be
- <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> if it meets certain further
- constraints.</termdef></p>
-
- <p>Each XML document has both a logical and a physical structure.
- Physically, the document is composed of units called <termref def="dt-entity">entities</termref>. An entity may <termref def="dt-entref">refer</termref> to other entities to cause their
- inclusion in the document. A document begins in a "root" or <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>.
- Logically, the document is composed of declarations, elements,
- comments,
- character references, and
- processing
- instructions, all of which are indicated in the document by explicit
- markup.
- The logical and physical structures must nest properly, as described
- in <specref ref="wf-entities"/>.
- </p>
-
- <div2 id="sec-well-formed">
- <head>Well-Formed XML Documents</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-wellformed" term="Well-Formed">
- A textual object is
- a well-formed XML document if:</termdef>
- <olist>
- <item><p>Taken as a whole, it
- matches the production labeled <nt def="NT-document">document</nt>.</p></item>
- <item><p>It
- meets all the well-formedness constraints given in this specification.</p>
- </item>
- <item><p>Each of the <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed entities</termref>
- which is referenced directly or indirectly within the document is
- <titleref href="wf-entities">well-formed</titleref>.</p></item>
- </olist></p>
- <p>
- <scrap lang="ebnf" id="document">
- <head>Document</head>
- <prod id="NT-document"><lhs>document</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-prolog">prolog</nt>
- <nt def="NT-element">element</nt>
- <nt def="NT-Misc">Misc</nt>*</rhs></prod>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- <p>Matching the <nt def="NT-document">document</nt> production
- implies that:
- <olist>
- <item><p>It contains one or more
- <termref def="dt-element">elements</termref>.</p>
- </item>
- <!--* N.B. some readers (notably JC) find the following
- paragraph awkward and redundant. I agree it's logically redundant:
- it *says* it is summarizing the logical implications of
- matching the grammar, and that means by definition it's
- logically redundant. I don't think it's rhetorically
- redundant or unnecessary, though, so I'm keeping it. It
- could however use some recasting when the editors are feeling
- stronger. -MSM *-->
- <item><p><termdef id="dt-root" term="Root Element">There is exactly
- one element, called the <term>root</term>, or document element, no
- part of which appears in the <termref def="dt-content">content</termref> of any other element.</termdef>
- For all other elements, if the start-tag is in the content of another
- element, the end-tag is in the content of the same element. More
- simply stated, the elements, delimited by start- and end-tags, nest
- properly within each other.
- </p></item>
- </olist>
- </p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-parentchild" term="Parent/Child">As a consequence
- of this,
- for each non-root element
- <code>C</code> in the document, there is one other element <code>P</code>
- in the document such that
- <code>C</code> is in the content of <code>P</code>, but is not in
- the content of any other element that is in the content of
- <code>P</code>.
- <code>P</code> is referred to as the
- <term>parent</term> of <code>C</code>, and <code>C</code> as a
- <term>child</term> of <code>P</code>.</termdef></p></div2>
-
- <div2 id="charsets">
- <head>Characters</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-text" term="Text">A parsed entity contains
- <term>text</term>, a sequence of
- <termref def="dt-character">characters</termref>,
- which may represent markup or character data.</termdef>
- <termdef id="dt-character" term="Character">A <term>character</term>
- is an atomic unit of text as specified by
- ISO/IEC 10646 <bibref ref="ISO10646"/>.
- Legal characters are tab, carriage return, line feed, and the legal
- graphic characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646.
- The use of "compatibility characters", as defined in section 6.8
- of <bibref ref="Unicode"/>, is discouraged.
- </termdef>
- <scrap lang="ebnf" id="char32">
- <head>Character Range</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="11">
- <prod id="NT-Char"><lhs>Char</lhs>
- <rhs>#x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD]
- | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]</rhs>
- <com>any Unicode character, excluding the
- surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF.</com> </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- <p>The mechanism for encoding character code points into bit patterns may
- vary from entity to entity. All XML processors must accept the UTF-8
- and UTF-16 encodings of 10646; the mechanisms for signaling which of
- the two is in use, or for bringing other encodings into play, are
- discussed later, in <specref ref="charencoding"/>.
- </p>
- <!--
- <p>Regardless of the specific encoding used, any character in the ISO/IEC
- 10646 character set may be referred to by the decimal or hexadecimal
- equivalent of its
- UCS-4 code value.
- </p>-->
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="sec-common-syn">
- <head>Common Syntactic Constructs</head>
-
- <p>This section defines some symbols used widely in the grammar.</p>
- <p><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> (white space) consists of one or more space (#x20)
- characters, carriage returns, line feeds, or tabs.
- <scrap lang="ebnf" id="white">
- <head>White Space</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="11">
- <prod id="NT-S"><lhs>S</lhs>
- <rhs>(#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+</rhs>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap></p>
- <p>Characters are classified for convenience as letters, digits, or other
- characters. Letters consist of an alphabetic or syllabic
- base character possibly
- followed by one or more combining characters, or of an ideographic
- character.
- Full definitions of the specific characters in each class
- are given in <specref ref="CharClasses"/>.</p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-name" term="Name">A <term>Name</term> is a token
- beginning with a letter or one of a few punctuation characters, and continuing
- with letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, colons, or full stops, together
- known as name characters.</termdef>
- Names beginning with the string "<code>xml</code>", or any string
- which would match <code>(('X'|'x') ('M'|'m') ('L'|'l'))</code>, are
- reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this
- specification.
- </p>
- <note>
- <p>The colon character within XML names is reserved for experimentation with
- name spaces.
- Its meaning is expected to be
- standardized at some future point, at which point those documents
- using the colon for experimental purposes may need to be updated.
- (There is no guarantee that any name-space mechanism
- adopted for XML will in fact use the colon as a name-space delimiter.)
- In practice, this means that authors should not use the colon in XML
- names except as part of name-space experiments, but that XML processors
- should accept the colon as a name character.</p>
- </note>
- <p>An
- <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> (name token) is any mixture of
- name characters.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Names and Tokens</head>
- <prod id="NT-NameChar"><lhs>NameChar</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Letter">Letter</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-Digit">Digit</nt>
- | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':'
- | <nt def="NT-CombiningChar">CombiningChar</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-Extender">Extender</nt></rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-Name"><lhs>Name</lhs>
- <rhs>(<nt def="NT-Letter">Letter</nt> | '_' | ':')
- (<nt def="NT-NameChar">NameChar</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Names"><lhs>Names</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Nmtoken"><lhs>Nmtoken</lhs>
- <rhs>(<nt def="NT-NameChar">NameChar</nt>)+</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Nmtokens"><lhs>Nmtokens</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- <p>Literal data is any quoted string not containing
- the quotation mark used as a delimiter for that string.
- Literals are used
- for specifying the content of internal entities
- (<nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>),
- the values of attributes (<nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>),
- and external identifiers
- (<nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt>).
- Note that a <nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt>
- can be parsed without scanning for markup.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Literals</head>
- <prod id="NT-EntityValue"><lhs>EntityValue</lhs>
- <rhs>'"'
- ([^%&"]
- | <nt def="NT-PEReference">PEReference</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt>)*
- '"'
- </rhs>
- <rhs>|
- "'"
- ([^%&']
- | <nt def="NT-PEReference">PEReference</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt>)*
- "'"</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-AttValue"><lhs>AttValue</lhs>
- <rhs>'"'
- ([^<&"]
- | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt>)*
- '"'
- </rhs>
- <rhs>|
- "'"
- ([^<&']
- | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt>)*
- "'"</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-SystemLiteral"><lhs>SystemLiteral</lhs>
- <rhs>('"' [^"]* '"') | ("'" [^']* "'")
- </rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-PubidLiteral"><lhs>PubidLiteral</lhs>
- <rhs>'"' <nt def="NT-PubidChar">PubidChar</nt>*
- '"'
- | "'" (<nt def="NT-PubidChar">PubidChar</nt> - "'")* "'"</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-PubidChar"><lhs>PubidChar</lhs>
- <rhs>#x20 | #xD | #xA
- | [a-zA-Z0-9]
- | [-'()+,./:=?;!*#@$_%]</rhs>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="syntax">
- <head>Character Data and Markup</head>
-
- <p><termref def="dt-text">Text</termref> consists of intermingled
- <termref def="dt-chardata">character
- data</termref> and markup.
- <termdef id="dt-markup" term="Markup"><term>Markup</term> takes the form of
- <termref def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-etag">end-tags</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-empty">empty-element tags</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-entref">entity references</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-charref">character references</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-comment">comments</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref> delimiters,
- <termref def="dt-doctype">document type declarations</termref>, and
- <termref def="dt-pi">processing instructions</termref>.
- </termdef>
- </p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-chardata" term="Character Data">All text that is not markup
- constitutes the <term>character data</term> of
- the document.</termdef></p>
- <p>The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<)
- may appear in their literal form <emph>only</emph> when used as markup
- delimiters, or within a <termref def="dt-comment">comment</termref>, a
- <termref def="dt-pi">processing instruction</termref>,
- or a <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref>.
- They are also legal within the <termref def="dt-litentval">literal entity
- value</termref> of an internal entity declaration; see
- <specref ref="wf-entities"/>.
- <!-- FINAL EDIT: restore internal entity decl or leave it out. -->
- If they are needed elsewhere,
- they must be <termref def="dt-escape">escaped</termref>
- using either <termref def="dt-charref">numeric character references</termref>
- or the strings
- "<code>&amp;</code>" and "<code>&lt;</code>" respectively.
- The right angle
- bracket (>) may be represented using the string
- "<code>&gt;</code>", and must, <termref def="dt-compat">for
- compatibility</termref>,
- be escaped using
- "<code>&gt;</code>" or a character reference
- when it appears in the string
- "<code>]]></code>"
- in content,
- when that string is not marking the end of
- a <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref>.
- </p>
- <p>
- In the content of elements, character data
- is any string of characters which does
- not contain the start-delimiter of any markup.
- In a CDATA section, character data
- is any string of characters not including the CDATA-section-close
- delimiter, "<code>]]></code>".</p>
- <p>
- To allow attribute values to contain both single and double quotes, the
- apostrophe or single-quote character (') may be represented as
- "<code>&apos;</code>", and the double-quote character (") as
- "<code>&quot;</code>".
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Character Data</head>
- <prod id="NT-CharData">
- <lhs>CharData</lhs>
- <rhs>[^<&]* - ([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*)</rhs>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="sec-comments">
- <head>Comments</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-comment" term="Comment"><term>Comments</term> may
- appear anywhere in a document outside other
- <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>; in addition,
- they may appear within the document type declaration
- at places allowed by the grammar.
- They are not part of the document's <termref def="dt-chardata">character
- data</termref>; an XML
- processor may, but need not, make it possible for an application to
- retrieve the text of comments.
- <termref def="dt-compat">For compatibility</termref>, the string
- "<code>--</code>" (double-hyphen) must not occur within
- comments.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Comments</head>
- <prod id="NT-Comment"><lhs>Comment</lhs>
- <rhs>'<!--'
- ((<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt> - '-')
- | ('-' (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt> - '-')))*
- '-->'</rhs>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- </termdef></p>
- <p>An example of a comment:
- <eg><!&como; declarations for <head> & <body> &comc;></eg>
- </p>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="sec-pi">
- <head>Processing Instructions</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-pi" term="Processing instruction"><term>Processing
- instructions</term> (PIs) allow documents to contain instructions
- for applications.
-
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Processing Instructions</head>
- <prod id="NT-PI"><lhs>PI</lhs>
- <rhs>'<?' <nt def="NT-PITarget">PITarget</nt>
- (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* -
- (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* &pic; <nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>*)))?
- &pic;</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-PITarget"><lhs>PITarget</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> -
- (('X' | 'x') ('M' | 'm') ('L' | 'l'))</rhs>
- </prod>
- </scrap></termdef>
- PIs are not part of the document's <termref def="dt-chardata">character
- data</termref>, but must be passed through to the application. The
- PI begins with a target (<nt def="NT-PITarget">PITarget</nt>) used
- to identify the application to which the instruction is directed.
- The target names "<code>XML</code>", "<code>xml</code>", and so on are
- reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this
- specification.
- The
- XML <termref def="dt-notation">Notation</termref> mechanism
- may be used for
- formal declaration of PI targets.
- </p>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="sec-cdata-sect">
- <head>CDATA Sections</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-cdsection" term="CDATA Section"><term>CDATA sections</term>
- may occur
- anywhere character data may occur; they are
- used to escape blocks of text containing characters which would
- otherwise be recognized as markup. CDATA sections begin with the
- string "<code><![CDATA[</code>" and end with the string
- "<code>]]></code>":
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>CDATA Sections</head>
- <prod id="NT-CDSect"><lhs>CDSect</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-CDStart">CDStart</nt>
- <nt def="NT-CData">CData</nt>
- <nt def="NT-CDEnd">CDEnd</nt></rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-CDStart"><lhs>CDStart</lhs>
- <rhs>'<![CDATA['</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-CData"><lhs>CData</lhs>
- <rhs>(<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* -
- (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* ']]>' <nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>*))
- </rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-CDEnd"><lhs>CDEnd</lhs>
- <rhs>']]>'</rhs>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- Within a CDATA section, only the <nt def="NT-CDEnd">CDEnd</nt> string is
- recognized as markup, so that left angle brackets and ampersands may occur in
- their literal form; they need not (and cannot) be escaped using
- "<code>&lt;</code>" and "<code>&amp;</code>". CDATA sections
- cannot nest.</termdef>
- </p>
- <p>An example of a CDATA section, in which "<code><greeting></code>" and
- "<code></greeting></code>"
- are recognized as <termref def="dt-chardata">character data</termref>, not
- <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>:
- <eg><![CDATA[<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>]]></eg>
- </p>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="sec-prolog-dtd">
- <head>Prolog and Document Type Declaration</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-xmldecl" term="XML Declaration">XML documents
- may, and should,
- begin with an <term>XML declaration</term> which specifies
- the version of
- XML being used.</termdef>
- For example, the following is a complete XML document, <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> but not
- <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref>:
- <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
- <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
- ]]></eg>
- and so is this:
- <eg><![CDATA[<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
- ]]></eg>
- </p>
- <p>The version number "<code>1.0</code>" should be used to indicate
- conformance to this version of this specification; it is an error
- for a document to use the value "<code>1.0</code>"
- if it does not conform to this version of this specification.
- It is the intent
- of the XML working group to give later versions of this specification
- numbers other than "<code>1.0</code>", but this intent does not
- indicate a
- commitment to produce any future versions of XML, nor if any are produced, to
- use any particular numbering scheme.
- Since future versions are not ruled out, this construct is provided
- as a means to allow the possibility of automatic version recognition, should
- it become necessary.
- Processors may signal an error if they receive documents labeled with
- versions they do not support.
- </p>
- <p>The function of the markup in an XML document is to describe its
- storage and logical structure and to associate attribute-value pairs
- with its logical structures. XML provides a mechanism, the <termref def="dt-doctype">document type declaration</termref>, to define
- constraints on the logical structure and to support the use of
- predefined storage units.
- <termdef id="dt-valid" term="Validity">An XML document is
- <term>valid</term> if it has an associated document type
- declaration and if the document
- complies with the constraints expressed in it.</termdef></p>
- <p>The document type declaration must appear before
- the first <termref def="dt-element">element</termref> in the document.
- <scrap lang="ebnf" id="xmldoc">
- <head>Prolog</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9">
- <prod id="NT-prolog"><lhs>prolog</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-XMLDecl">XMLDecl</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-Misc">Misc</nt>*
- (<nt def="NT-doctypedecl">doctypedecl</nt>
- <nt def="NT-Misc">Misc</nt>*)?</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-XMLDecl"><lhs>XMLDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>&xmlpio;
- <nt def="NT-VersionInfo">VersionInfo</nt>
- <nt def="NT-EncodingDecl">EncodingDecl</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-SDDecl">SDDecl</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- &pic;</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-VersionInfo"><lhs>VersionInfo</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> 'version' <nt def="NT-Eq">Eq</nt>
- (' <nt def="NT-VersionNum">VersionNum</nt> '
- | " <nt def="NT-VersionNum">VersionNum</nt> ")</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-Eq"><lhs>Eq</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '=' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-VersionNum">
- <lhs>VersionNum</lhs>
- <rhs>([a-zA-Z0-9_.:] | '-')+</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-Misc"><lhs>Misc</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Comment">Comment</nt> | <nt def="NT-PI">PI</nt> |
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt></rhs></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap></p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-doctype" term="Document Type Declaration">The XML
- <term>document type declaration</term>
- contains or points to
- <termref def="dt-markupdecl">markup declarations</termref>
- that provide a grammar for a
- class of documents.
- This grammar is known as a document type definition,
- or <term>DTD</term>.
- The document type declaration can point to an external subset (a
- special kind of
- <termref def="dt-extent">external entity</termref>) containing markup
- declarations, or can
- contain the markup declarations directly in an internal subset, or can do
- both.
- The DTD for a document consists of both subsets taken
- together.</termdef>
- </p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-markupdecl" term="markup declaration">
- A <term>markup declaration</term> is
- an <termref def="dt-eldecl">element type declaration</termref>,
- an <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute-list declaration</termref>,
- an <termref def="dt-entdecl">entity declaration</termref>, or
- a <termref def="dt-notdecl">notation declaration</termref>.
- </termdef>
- These declarations may be contained in whole or in part
- within <termref def="dt-PE">parameter entities</termref>,
- as described in the well-formedness and validity constraints below.
- For fuller information, see
- <specref ref="sec-physical-struct"/>.</p>
- <scrap lang="ebnf" id="dtd">
- <head>Document Type Definition</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9">
- <prod id="NT-doctypedecl"><lhs>doctypedecl</lhs>
- <rhs>'<!DOCTYPE' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-ExternalID">ExternalID</nt>)?
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ('['
- (<nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-PEReference">PEReference</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>)*
- ']'
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?)? '>'</rhs>
- <vc def="vc-roottype"/>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-markupdecl"><lhs>markupdecl</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-elementdecl">elementdecl</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-AttlistDecl">AttlistDecl</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-EntityDecl">EntityDecl</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-NotationDecl">NotationDecl</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-PI">PI</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-Comment">Comment</nt>
- </rhs>
- <vc def="vc-PEinMarkupDecl"/>
- <wfc def="wfc-PEinInternalSubset"/>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- <p>The markup declarations may be made up in whole or in part of
- the <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> of
- <termref def="dt-PE">parameter entities</termref>.
- The productions later in this specification for
- individual nonterminals (<nt def="NT-elementdecl">elementdecl</nt>,
- <nt def="NT-AttlistDecl">AttlistDecl</nt>, and so on) describe
- the declarations <emph>after</emph> all the parameter entities have been
- <termref def="dt-include">included</termref>.</p>
- <vcnote id="vc-roottype">
- <head>Root Element Type</head>
- <p>
- The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in the document type declaration must
- match the element type of the <termref def="dt-root">root element</termref>.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <vcnote id="vc-PEinMarkupDecl">
- <head>Proper Declaration/PE Nesting</head>
- <p>Parameter-entity
- <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> must be properly nested
- with markup declarations.
- That is to say, if either the first character
- or the last character of a markup
- declaration (<nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt> above)
- is contained in the replacement text for a
- <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity reference</termref>,
- both must be contained in the same replacement text.</p>
- </vcnote>
- <wfcnote id="wfc-PEinInternalSubset">
- <head>PEs in Internal Subset</head>
- <p>In the internal DTD subset,
- <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity references</termref>
- can occur only where markup declarations can occur, not
- within markup declarations. (This does not apply to
- references that occur in
- external parameter entities or to the external subset.)
- </p>
- </wfcnote>
- <p>
- Like the internal subset, the external subset and
- any external parameter entities referred to in the DTD
- must consist of a series of complete markup declarations of the types
- allowed by the non-terminal symbol
- <nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt>, interspersed with white space
- or <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity references</termref>.
- However, portions of the contents
- of the
- external subset or of external parameter entities may conditionally be ignored
- by using
- the <termref def="dt-cond-section">conditional section</termref>
- construct; this is not allowed in the internal subset.
- <scrap id="ext-Subset">
- <head>External Subset</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9">
- <prod id="NT-extSubset"><lhs>extSubset</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-TextDecl">TextDecl</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-extSubsetDecl">extSubsetDecl</nt></rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-extSubsetDecl"><lhs>extSubsetDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>(
- <nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-conditionalSect">conditionalSect</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-PEReference">PEReference</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- )*</rhs>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap></p>
- <p>The external subset and external parameter entities also differ
- from the internal subset in that in them,
- <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity references</termref>
- are permitted <emph>within</emph> markup declarations,
- not only <emph>between</emph> markup declarations.</p>
- <p>An example of an XML document with a document type declaration:
- <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
- <!DOCTYPE greeting SYSTEM "hello.dtd">
- <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
- ]]></eg>
- The <termref def="dt-sysid">system identifier</termref>
- "<code>hello.dtd</code>" gives the URI of a DTD for the document.</p>
- <p>The declarations can also be given locally, as in this
- example:
- <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
- <!DOCTYPE greeting [
- <!ELEMENT greeting (#PCDATA)>
- ]>
- <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
- ]]></eg>
- If both the external and internal subsets are used, the
- internal subset is considered to occur before the external subset.
- <!-- 'is considered to'? boo. whazzat mean? -->
- This has the effect that entity and attribute-list declarations in the
- internal subset take precedence over those in the external subset.
- </p>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="sec-rmd">
- <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head>
- <p>Markup declarations can affect the content of the document,
- as passed from an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref>
- to an application; examples are attribute defaults and entity
- declarations.
- The standalone document declaration,
- which may appear as a component of the XML declaration, signals
- whether or not there are such declarations which appear external to
- the <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>.
- <scrap lang="ebnf" id="fulldtd">
- <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="19.5" pcw5="9">
- <prod id="NT-SDDecl"><lhs>SDDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- 'standalone' <nt def="NT-Eq">Eq</nt>
- (("'" ('yes' | 'no') "'") | ('"' ('yes' | 'no') '"'))
- </rhs>
- <vc def="vc-check-rmd"/></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap></p>
- <p>
- In a standalone document declaration, the value "<code>yes</code>" indicates
- that there
- are no markup declarations external to the <termref def="dt-docent">document
- entity</termref> (either in the DTD external subset, or in an
- external parameter entity referenced from the internal subset)
- which affect the information passed from the XML processor to
- the application.
- The value "<code>no</code>" indicates that there are or may be such
- external markup declarations.
- Note that the standalone document declaration only
- denotes the presence of external <emph>declarations</emph>; the presence, in a
- document, of
- references to external <emph>entities</emph>, when those entities are
- internally declared,
- does not change its standalone status.</p>
- <p>If there are no external markup declarations, the standalone document
- declaration has no meaning.
- If there are external markup declarations but there is no standalone
- document declaration, the value "<code>no</code>" is assumed.</p>
- <p>Any XML document for which <code>standalone="no"</code> holds can
- be converted algorithmically to a standalone document,
- which may be desirable for some network delivery applications.</p>
- <vcnote id="vc-check-rmd">
- <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head>
- <p>The standalone document declaration must have
- the value "<code>no</code>" if any external markup declarations
- contain declarations of:</p><ulist>
- <item><p>attributes with <termref def="dt-default">default</termref> values, if
- elements to which
- these attributes apply appear in the document without
- specifications of values for these attributes, or</p></item>
- <item><p>entities (other than &magicents;),
- if <termref def="dt-entref">references</termref> to those
- entities appear in the document, or</p>
- </item>
- <item><p>attributes with values subject to
- <titleref href="AVNormalize">normalization</titleref>, where the
- attribute appears in the document with a value which will
- change as a result of normalization, or</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>element types with <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref>,
- if white space occurs
- directly within any instance of those types.
- </p></item>
- </ulist>
- </vcnote>
- <p>An example XML declaration with a standalone document declaration:<eg><?xml version="&XML.version;" standalone='yes'?></eg></p>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="sec-white-space">
- <head>White Space Handling</head>
- <p>In editing XML documents, it is often convenient to use "white space"
- (spaces, tabs, and blank lines, denoted by the nonterminal
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> in this specification) to
- set apart the markup for greater readability. Such white space is typically
- not intended for inclusion in the delivered version of the document.
- On the other hand, "significant" white space that should be preserved in the
- delivered version is common, for example in poetry and
- source code.</p>
- <p>An <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref>
- must always pass all characters in a document that are not
- markup through to the application. A <termref def="dt-validating">
- validating XML processor</termref> must also inform the application
- which of these characters constitute white space appearing
- in <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref>.
- </p>
- <p>A special <termref def="dt-attr">attribute</termref>
- named <kw>xml:space</kw> may be attached to an element
- to signal an intention that in that element,
- white space should be preserved by applications.
- In valid documents, this attribute, like any other, must be
- <termref def="dt-attdecl">declared</termref> if it is used.
- When declared, it must be given as an
- <termref def="dt-enumerated">enumerated type</termref> whose only
- possible values are "<code>default</code>" and "<code>preserve</code>".
- For example:<eg><![CDATA[ <!ATTLIST poem xml:space (default|preserve) 'preserve'>]]></eg></p>
- <p>The value "<code>default</code>" signals that applications'
- default white-space processing modes are acceptable for this element; the
- value "<code>preserve</code>" indicates the intent that applications preserve
- all the white space.
- This declared intent is considered to apply to all elements within the content
- of the element where it is specified, unless overriden with another instance
- of the <kw>xml:space</kw> attribute.
- </p>
- <p>The <termref def="dt-root">root element</termref> of any document
- is considered to have signaled no intentions as regards application space
- handling, unless it provides a value for
- this attribute or the attribute is declared with a default value.
- </p>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="sec-line-ends">
- <head>End-of-Line Handling</head>
- <p>XML <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed entities</termref> are often stored in
- computer files which, for editing convenience, are organized into lines.
- These lines are typically separated by some combination of the characters
- carriage-return (#xD) and line-feed (#xA).</p>
- <p>To simplify the tasks of <termref def="dt-app">applications</termref>,
- wherever an external parsed entity or the literal entity value
- of an internal parsed entity contains either the literal
- two-character sequence "#xD#xA" or a standalone literal
- #xD, an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref> must
- pass to the application the single character #xA.
- (This behavior can
- conveniently be produced by normalizing all
- line breaks to #xA on input, before parsing.)
- </p>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="sec-lang-tag">
- <head>Language Identification</head>
- <p>In document processing, it is often useful to
- identify the natural or formal language
- in which the content is
- written.
- A special <termref def="dt-attr">attribute</termref> named
- <kw>xml:lang</kw> may be inserted in
- documents to specify the
- language used in the contents and attribute values
- of any element in an XML document.
- In valid documents, this attribute, like any other, must be
- <termref def="dt-attdecl">declared</termref> if it is used.
- The values of the attribute are language identifiers as defined
- by <bibref ref="RFC1766"/>, "Tags for the Identification of Languages":
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Language Identification</head>
- <prod id="NT-LanguageID"><lhs>LanguageID</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Langcode">Langcode</nt>
- ('-' <nt def="NT-Subcode">Subcode</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Langcode"><lhs>Langcode</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-ISO639Code">ISO639Code</nt> |
- <nt def="NT-IanaCode">IanaCode</nt> |
- <nt def="NT-UserCode">UserCode</nt></rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-ISO639Code"><lhs>ISO639Code</lhs>
- <rhs>([a-z] | [A-Z]) ([a-z] | [A-Z])</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-IanaCode"><lhs>IanaCode</lhs>
- <rhs>('i' | 'I') '-' ([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-UserCode"><lhs>UserCode</lhs>
- <rhs>('x' | 'X') '-' ([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Subcode"><lhs>Subcode</lhs>
- <rhs>([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod>
- </scrap>
- The <nt def="NT-Langcode">Langcode</nt> may be any of the following:
- <ulist>
- <item><p>a two-letter language code as defined by
- <bibref ref="ISO639"/>, "Codes
- for the representation of names of languages"</p></item>
- <item><p>a language identifier registered with the Internet
- Assigned Numbers Authority <bibref ref="IANA"/>; these begin with the
- prefix "<code>i-</code>" (or "<code>I-</code>")</p></item>
- <item><p>a language identifier assigned by the user, or agreed on
- between parties in private use; these must begin with the
- prefix "<code>x-</code>" or "<code>X-</code>" in order to ensure that they do not conflict
- with names later standardized or registered with IANA</p></item>
- </ulist></p>
- <p>There may be any number of <nt def="NT-Subcode">Subcode</nt> segments; if
- the first
- subcode segment exists and the Subcode consists of two
- letters, then it must be a country code from
- <bibref ref="ISO3166"/>, "Codes
- for the representation of names of countries."
- If the first
- subcode consists of more than two letters, it must be
- a subcode for the language in question registered with IANA,
- unless the <nt def="NT-Langcode">Langcode</nt> begins with the prefix
- "<code>x-</code>" or
- "<code>X-</code>". </p>
- <p>It is customary to give the language code in lower case, and
- the country code (if any) in upper case.
- Note that these values, unlike other names in XML documents,
- are case insensitive.</p>
- <p>For example:
- <eg><![CDATA[<p xml:lang="en">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p>
- <p xml:lang="en-GB">What colour is it?</p>
- <p xml:lang="en-US">What color is it?</p>
- <sp who="Faust" desc='leise' xml:lang="de">
- <l>Habe nun, ach! Philosophie,</l>
- <l>Juristerei, und Medizin</l>
- <l>und leider auch Theologie</l>
- <l>durchaus studiert mit heißem Bemüh'n.</l>
- </sp>]]></eg></p>
- <!--<p>The xml:lang value is considered to apply both to the contents of an
- element and
- (unless otherwise via attribute default values) to the
- values of all of its attributes with free-text (CDATA) values. -->
- <p>The intent declared with <kw>xml:lang</kw> is considered to apply to
- all attributes and content of the element where it is specified,
- unless overridden with an instance of <kw>xml:lang</kw>
- on another element within that content.</p>
- <!--
- If no
- value is specified for xml:lang on an element, and no default value is
- defined for it in the DTD, then the xml:lang attribute of any element
- takes the same value it has in the parent element, if any. The two
- technical terms in the following example both have the same effective
- value for xml:lang:
- <p xml:lang="en">Here the keywords are
- <term xml:lang="en">shift</term> and
- <term>reduce</term>. ...</p>
- The application, not the XML processor, is responsible for this '
- inheritance' of attribute values.
- -->
- <p>A simple declaration for <kw>xml:lang</kw> might take
- the form
- <eg>xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED</eg>
- but specific default values may also be given, if appropriate. In a
- collection of French poems for English students, with glosses and
- notes in English, the xml:lang attribute might be declared this way:
- <eg><![CDATA[ <!ATTLIST poem xml:lang NMTOKEN 'fr'>
- <!ATTLIST gloss xml:lang NMTOKEN 'en'>
- <!ATTLIST note xml:lang NMTOKEN 'en'>]]></eg>
- </p>
- </div2>
- </div1>
- <!-- &Elements; -->
-
- <div1 id="sec-logical-struct">
- <head>Logical Structures</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-element" term="Element">Each <termref def="dt-xml-doc">XML document</termref> contains one or more
- <term>elements</term>, the boundaries of which are
- either delimited by <termref def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref>
- and <termref def="dt-etag">end-tags</termref>, or, for <termref def="dt-empty">empty</termref> elements, by an <termref def="dt-eetag">empty-element tag</termref>. Each element has a type,
- identified by name, sometimes called its "generic
- identifier" (GI), and may have a set of
- attribute specifications.</termdef> Each attribute specification
- has a <termref def="dt-attrname">name</termref> and a <termref def="dt-attrval">value</termref>.
- </p>
- <scrap lang="ebnf"><head>Element</head>
- <prod id="NT-element"><lhs>element</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-EmptyElemTag">EmptyElemTag</nt></rhs>
- <rhs>| <nt def="NT-STag">STag</nt> <nt def="NT-content">content</nt>
- <nt def="NT-ETag">ETag</nt></rhs>
- <wfc def="GIMatch"/>
- <vc def="elementvalid"/>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- <p>This specification does not constrain the semantics, use, or (beyond
- syntax) names of the element types and attributes, except that names
- beginning with a match to <code>(('X'|'x')('M'|'m')('L'|'l'))</code>
- are reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this
- specification.
- </p>
- <wfcnote id="GIMatch">
- <head>Element Type Match</head>
- <p>
- The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in an element's end-tag must match
- the element type in
- the start-tag.
- </p>
- </wfcnote>
- <vcnote id="elementvalid">
- <head>Element Valid</head>
- <p>An element is
- valid if
- there is a declaration matching
- <nt def="NT-elementdecl">elementdecl</nt> where the
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> matches the element type, and
- one of the following holds:</p>
- <olist>
- <item><p>The declaration matches <kw>EMPTY</kw> and the element has no
- <termref def="dt-content">content</termref>.</p></item>
- <item><p>The declaration matches <nt def="NT-children">children</nt> and
- the sequence of
- <termref def="dt-parentchild">child elements</termref>
- belongs to the language generated by the regular expression in
- the content model, with optional white space (characters
- matching the nonterminal <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>) between each pair
- of child elements.</p></item>
- <item><p>The declaration matches <nt def="NT-Mixed">Mixed</nt> and
- the content consists of <termref def="dt-chardata">character
- data</termref> and <termref def="dt-parentchild">child elements</termref>
- whose types match names in the content model.</p></item>
- <item><p>The declaration matches <kw>ANY</kw>, and the types
- of any <termref def="dt-parentchild">child elements</termref> have
- been declared.</p></item>
- </olist>
- </vcnote>
- <div2 id="sec-starttags">
- <head>Start-Tags, End-Tags, and Empty-Element Tags</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-stag" term="Start-Tag">The beginning of every
- non-empty XML element is marked by a <term>start-tag</term>.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Start-tag</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5">
- <prod id="NT-STag"><lhs>STag</lhs>
- <rhs>'<' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Attribute">Attribute</nt>)*
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs>
- <wfc def="uniqattspec"/>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-Attribute"><lhs>Attribute</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> <nt def="NT-Eq">Eq</nt>
- <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt></rhs>
- <vc def="ValueType"/>
- <wfc def="NoExternalRefs"/>
- <wfc def="CleanAttrVals"/></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in
- the start- and end-tags gives the
- element's <term>type</term>.</termdef>
- <termdef id="dt-attr" term="Attribute">
- The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>-<nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt> pairs are
- referred to as
- the <term>attribute specifications</term> of the element</termdef>,
- <termdef id="dt-attrname" term="Attribute Name">with the
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in each pair
- referred to as the <term>attribute name</term></termdef> and
- <termdef id="dt-attrval" term="Attribute Value">the content of the
- <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt> (the text between the
- <code>'</code> or <code>"</code> delimiters)
- as the <term>attribute value</term>.</termdef>
- </p>
- <wfcnote id="uniqattspec">
- <head>Unique Att Spec</head>
- <p>
- No attribute name may appear more than once in the same start-tag
- or empty-element tag.
- </p>
- </wfcnote>
- <vcnote id="ValueType">
- <head>Attribute Value Type</head>
- <p>
- The attribute must have been declared; the value must be of the type
- declared for it.
- (For attribute types, see <specref ref="attdecls"/>.)
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <wfcnote id="NoExternalRefs">
- <head>No External Entity References</head>
- <p>
- Attribute values cannot contain direct or indirect entity references
- to external entities.
- </p>
- </wfcnote>
- <wfcnote id="CleanAttrVals">
- <head>No <code><</code> in Attribute Values</head>
- <p>The <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> of any entity
- referred to directly or indirectly in an attribute
- value (other than "<code>&lt;</code>") must not contain
- a <code><</code>.
- </p></wfcnote>
- <p>An example of a start-tag:
- <eg><termdef id="dt-dog" term="dog"></eg></p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-etag" term="End Tag">The end of every element
- that begins with a start-tag must
- be marked by an <term>end-tag</term>
- containing a name that echoes the element's type as given in the
- start-tag:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>End-tag</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5">
- <prod id="NT-ETag"><lhs>ETag</lhs>
- <rhs>'</' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </termdef></p>
- <p>An example of an end-tag:<eg></termdef></eg></p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-content" term="Content">The
- <termref def="dt-text">text</termref> between the start-tag and
- end-tag is called the element's
- <term>content</term>:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Content of Elements</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5">
- <prod id="NT-content"><lhs>content</lhs>
- <rhs>(<nt def="NT-element">element</nt> | <nt def="NT-CharData">CharData</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt> | <nt def="NT-CDSect">CDSect</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-PI">PI</nt> | <nt def="NT-Comment">Comment</nt>)*</rhs>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </termdef></p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-empty" term="Empty">If an element is <term>empty</term>,
- it must be represented either by a start-tag immediately followed
- by an end-tag or by an empty-element tag.</termdef>
- <termdef id="dt-eetag" term="empty-element tag">An
- <term>empty-element tag</term> takes a special form:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Tags for Empty Elements</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5">
- <prod id="NT-EmptyElemTag"><lhs>EmptyElemTag</lhs>
- <rhs>'<' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-Attribute">Attribute</nt>)* <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- '/>'</rhs>
- <wfc def="uniqattspec"/>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </termdef></p>
- <p>Empty-element tags may be used for any element which has no
- content, whether or not it is declared using the keyword
- <kw>EMPTY</kw>.
- <termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability</termref>, the empty-element
- tag must be used, and can only be used, for elements which are
- <termref def="dt-eldecl">declared</termref> <kw>EMPTY</kw>.</p>
- <p>Examples of empty elements:
- <eg><IMG align="left"
- src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" />
- <br></br>
- <br/></eg></p>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="elemdecls">
- <head>Element Type Declarations</head>
-
- <p>The <termref def="dt-element">element</termref> structure of an
- <termref def="dt-xml-doc">XML document</termref> may, for
- <termref def="dt-valid">validation</termref> purposes,
- be constrained
- using element type and attribute-list declarations.
- An element type declaration constrains the element's
- <termref def="dt-content">content</termref>.
- </p>
- <p>Element type declarations often constrain which element types can
- appear as <termref def="dt-parentchild">children</termref> of the element.
- At user option, an XML processor may issue a warning
- when a declaration mentions an element type for which no declaration
- is provided, but this is not an error.</p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-eldecl" term="Element Type declaration">An <term>element
- type declaration</term> takes the form:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Element Type Declaration</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="18" pcw5="9">
- <prod id="NT-elementdecl"><lhs>elementdecl</lhs>
- <rhs>'<!ELEMENT' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-contentspec">contentspec</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs>
- <vc def="EDUnique"/></prod>
- <prod id="NT-contentspec"><lhs>contentspec</lhs>
- <rhs>'EMPTY'
- | 'ANY'
- | <nt def="NT-Mixed">Mixed</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-children">children</nt>
- </rhs>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- where the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> gives the element type
- being declared.</termdef>
- </p>
- <vcnote id="EDUnique">
- <head>Unique Element Type Declaration</head>
- <p>
- No element type may be declared more than once.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <p>Examples of element type declarations:
- <eg><!ELEMENT br EMPTY>
- <!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA|emph)* >
- <!ELEMENT %name.para; %content.para; >
- <!ELEMENT container ANY></eg></p>
-
- <div3 id="sec-element-content">
- <head>Element Content</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-elemcontent" term="Element content">An element <termref def="dt-stag">type</termref> has
- <term>element content</term> when elements of that
- type must contain only <termref def="dt-parentchild">child</termref>
- elements (no character data), optionally separated by
- white space (characters matching the nonterminal
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>).
- </termdef>
- In this case, the
- constraint includes a content model, a simple grammar governing
- the allowed types of the child
- elements and the order in which they are allowed to appear.
- The grammar is built on
- content particles (<nt def="NT-cp">cp</nt>s), which consist of names,
- choice lists of content particles, or
- sequence lists of content particles:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Element-content Models</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="16" pcw5="11">
- <prod id="NT-children"><lhs>children</lhs>
- <rhs>(<nt def="NT-choice">choice</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-seq">seq</nt>)
- ('?' | '*' | '+')?</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-cp"><lhs>cp</lhs>
- <rhs>(<nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-choice">choice</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-seq">seq</nt>)
- ('?' | '*' | '+')?</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-choice"><lhs>choice</lhs>
- <rhs>'(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? cp
- ( <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '|' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? <nt def="NT-cp">cp</nt> )*
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ')'</rhs>
- <vc def="vc-PEinGroup"/></prod>
- <prod id="NT-seq"><lhs>seq</lhs>
- <rhs>'(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? cp
- ( <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ',' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? <nt def="NT-cp">cp</nt> )*
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ')'</rhs>
- <vc def="vc-PEinGroup"/></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- where each <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> is the type of an element which may
- appear as a <termref def="dt-parentchild">child</termref>.
- Any content
- particle in a choice list may appear in the <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref> at the location where
- the choice list appears in the grammar;
- content particles occurring in a sequence list must each
- appear in the <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref> in the
- order given in the list.
- The optional character following a name or list governs
- whether the element or the content particles in the list may occur one
- or more (<code>+</code>), zero or more (<code>*</code>), or zero or
- one times (<code>?</code>).
- The absence of such an operator means that the element or content particle
- must appear exactly once.
- This syntax
- and meaning are identical to those used in the productions in this
- specification.</p>
- <p>
- The content of an element matches a content model if and only if it is
- possible to trace out a path through the content model, obeying the
- sequence, choice, and repetition operators and matching each element in
- the content against an element type in the content model. <termref def="dt-compat">For compatibility</termref>, it is an error
- if an element in the document can
- match more than one occurrence of an element type in the content model.
- For more information, see <specref ref="determinism"/>.
- <!-- appendix <specref ref="determinism"/>. -->
- <!-- appendix on deterministic content models. -->
- </p>
- <vcnote id="vc-PEinGroup">
- <head>Proper Group/PE Nesting</head>
- <p>Parameter-entity
- <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> must be properly nested
- with parenthetized groups.
- That is to say, if either of the opening or closing parentheses
- in a <nt def="NT-choice">choice</nt>, <nt def="NT-seq">seq</nt>, or
- <nt def="NT-Mixed">Mixed</nt> construct
- is contained in the replacement text for a
- <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter entity</termref>,
- both must be contained in the same replacement text.</p>
- <p><termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability</termref>,
- if a parameter-entity reference appears in a
- <nt def="NT-choice">choice</nt>, <nt def="NT-seq">seq</nt>, or
- <nt def="NT-Mixed">Mixed</nt> construct, its replacement text
- should not be empty, and
- neither the first nor last non-blank
- character of the replacement text should be a connector
- (<code>|</code> or <code>,</code>).
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <p>Examples of element-content models:
- <eg><!ELEMENT spec (front, body, back?)>
- <!ELEMENT div1 (head, (p | list | note)*, div2*)>
- <!ELEMENT dictionary-body (%div.mix; | %dict.mix;)*></eg></p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="sec-mixed-content">
- <head>Mixed Content</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-mixed" term="Mixed Content">An element
- <termref def="dt-stag">type</termref> has
- <term>mixed content</term> when elements of that type may contain
- character data, optionally interspersed with
- <termref def="dt-parentchild">child</termref> elements.</termdef>
- In this case, the types of the child elements
- may be constrained, but not their order or their number of occurrences:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Mixed-content Declaration</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="16" pcw5="11">
- <prod id="NT-Mixed"><lhs>Mixed</lhs>
- <rhs>'(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- '#PCDATA'
- (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- '|'
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>)*
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- ')*' </rhs>
- <rhs>| '(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '#PCDATA' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ')'
- </rhs><vc def="vc-PEinGroup"/>
- <vc def="vc-MixedChildrenUnique"/>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- where the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>s give the types of elements
- that may appear as children.
- </p>
- <vcnote id="vc-MixedChildrenUnique">
- <head>No Duplicate Types</head>
- <p>The same name must not appear more than once in a single mixed-content
- declaration.
- </p></vcnote>
- <p>Examples of mixed content declarations:
- <eg><!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA|a|ul|b|i|em)*>
- <!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA | %font; | %phrase; | %special; | %form;)* >
- <!ELEMENT b (#PCDATA)></eg></p>
- </div3>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="attdecls">
- <head>Attribute-List Declarations</head>
-
- <p><termref def="dt-attr">Attributes</termref> are used to associate
- name-value pairs with <termref def="dt-element">elements</termref>.
- Attribute specifications may appear only within <termref def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref>
- and <termref def="dt-eetag">empty-element tags</termref>;
- thus, the productions used to
- recognize them appear in <specref ref="sec-starttags"/>.
- Attribute-list
- declarations may be used:
- <ulist>
- <item><p>To define the set of attributes pertaining to a given
- element type.</p></item>
- <item><p>To establish type constraints for these
- attributes.</p></item>
- <item><p>To provide <termref def="dt-default">default values</termref>
- for attributes.</p></item>
- </ulist>
- </p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-attdecl" term="Attribute-List Declaration">
- <term>Attribute-list declarations</term> specify the name, data type, and default
- value (if any) of each attribute associated with a given element type:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Attribute-list Declaration</head>
- <prod id="NT-AttlistDecl"><lhs>AttlistDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>'<!ATTLIST' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- <nt def="NT-AttDef">AttDef</nt>*
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-AttDef"><lhs>AttDef</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-AttType">AttType</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-DefaultDecl">DefaultDecl</nt></rhs>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in the
- <nt def="NT-AttlistDecl">AttlistDecl</nt> rule is the type of an element. At
- user option, an XML processor may issue a warning if attributes are
- declared for an element type not itself declared, but this is not an
- error. The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in the
- <nt def="NT-AttDef">AttDef</nt> rule is
- the name of the attribute.</termdef></p>
- <p>
- When more than one <nt def="NT-AttlistDecl">AttlistDecl</nt> is provided for a
- given element type, the contents of all those provided are merged. When
- more than one definition is provided for the same attribute of a
- given element type, the first declaration is binding and later
- declarations are ignored.
- <termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability,</termref> writers of DTDs
- may choose to provide at most one attribute-list declaration
- for a given element type, at most one attribute definition
- for a given attribute name, and at least one attribute definition
- in each attribute-list declaration.
- For interoperability, an XML processor may at user option
- issue a warning when more than one attribute-list declaration is
- provided for a given element type, or more than one attribute definition
- is provided
- for a given attribute, but this is not an error.
- </p>
- <div3 id="sec-attribute-types">
- <head>Attribute Types</head>
-
- <p>XML attribute types are of three kinds: a string type, a
- set of tokenized types, and enumerated types. The string type may take
- any literal string as a value; the tokenized types have varying lexical
- and semantic constraints, as noted:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Attribute Types</head>
- <prodgroup pcw4="14" pcw5="11.5">
- <prod id="NT-AttType"><lhs>AttType</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-StringType">StringType</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-TokenizedType">TokenizedType</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-EnumeratedType">EnumeratedType</nt>
- </rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-StringType"><lhs>StringType</lhs>
- <rhs>'CDATA'</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-TokenizedType"><lhs>TokenizedType</lhs>
- <rhs>'ID'</rhs>
- <vc def="id"/>
- <vc def="one-id-per-el"/>
- <vc def="id-default"/>
- <rhs>| 'IDREF'</rhs>
- <vc def="idref"/>
- <rhs>| 'IDREFS'</rhs>
- <vc def="idref"/>
- <rhs>| 'ENTITY'</rhs>
- <vc def="entname"/>
- <rhs>| 'ENTITIES'</rhs>
- <vc def="entname"/>
- <rhs>| 'NMTOKEN'</rhs>
- <vc def="nmtok"/>
- <rhs>| 'NMTOKENS'</rhs>
- <vc def="nmtok"/></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- <vcnote id="id">
- <head>ID</head>
- <p>
- Values of type <kw>ID</kw> must match the
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> production.
- A name must not appear more than once in
- an XML document as a value of this type; i.e., ID values must uniquely
- identify the elements which bear them.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <vcnote id="one-id-per-el">
- <head>One ID per Element Type</head>
- <p>No element type may have more than one ID attribute specified.</p>
- </vcnote>
- <vcnote id="id-default">
- <head>ID Attribute Default</head>
- <p>An ID attribute must have a declared default of <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> or
- <kw>#REQUIRED</kw>.</p>
- </vcnote>
- <vcnote id="idref">
- <head>IDREF</head>
- <p>
- Values of type <kw>IDREF</kw> must match
- the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> production, and
- values of type <kw>IDREFS</kw> must match
- <nt def="NT-Names">Names</nt>;
- each <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> must match the value of an ID attribute on
- some element in the XML document; i.e. <kw>IDREF</kw> values must
- match the value of some ID attribute.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <vcnote id="entname">
- <head>Entity Name</head>
- <p>
- Values of type <kw>ENTITY</kw>
- must match the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> production,
- values of type <kw>ENTITIES</kw> must match
- <nt def="NT-Names">Names</nt>;
- each <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> must
- match the
- name of an <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed entity</termref> declared in the
- <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <vcnote id="nmtok">
- <head>Name Token</head>
- <p>
- Values of type <kw>NMTOKEN</kw> must match the
- <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> production;
- values of type <kw>NMTOKENS</kw> must
- match <termref def="NT-Nmtokens">Nmtokens</termref>.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <!-- why?
- <p>The XML processor must normalize attribute values before
- passing them to the application, as described in
- <specref ref="AVNormalize"/>.</p>-->
- <p><termdef id="dt-enumerated" term="Enumerated Attribute Values"><term>Enumerated attributes</term> can take one
- of a list of values provided in the declaration</termdef>. There are two
- kinds of enumerated types:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Enumerated Attribute Types</head>
- <prod id="NT-EnumeratedType"><lhs>EnumeratedType</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-NotationType">NotationType</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-Enumeration">Enumeration</nt>
- </rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-NotationType"><lhs>NotationType</lhs>
- <rhs>'NOTATION'
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- '('
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '|' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>)*
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ')'
- </rhs>
- <vc def="notatn"/></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Enumeration"><lhs>Enumeration</lhs>
- <rhs>'(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt>
- (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '|'
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt>)*
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
- ')'</rhs>
- <vc def="enum"/></prod>
- </scrap>
- A <kw>NOTATION</kw> attribute identifies a
- <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>, declared in the
- DTD with associated system and/or public identifiers, to
- be used in interpreting the element to which the attribute
- is attached.
- </p>
- <vcnote id="notatn">
- <head>Notation Attributes</head>
- <p>
- Values of this type must match
- one of the <titleref href="Notations">notation</titleref> names included in
- the declaration; all notation names in the declaration must
- be declared.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <vcnote id="enum">
- <head>Enumeration</head>
- <p>
- Values of this type
- must match one of the <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> tokens in the
- declaration.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <p><termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability,</termref> the same
- <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> should not occur more than once in the
- enumerated attribute types of a single element type.
- </p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="sec-attr-defaults">
- <head>Attribute Defaults</head>
-
- <p>An <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute declaration</termref> provides
- information on whether
- the attribute's presence is required, and if not, how an XML processor should
- react if a declared attribute is absent in a document.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Attribute Defaults</head>
- <prodgroup pcw4="14" pcw5="11.5">
- <prod id="NT-DefaultDecl"><lhs>DefaultDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>'#REQUIRED'
- | '#IMPLIED' </rhs>
- <rhs>| (('#FIXED' S)? <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>)</rhs>
- <vc def="RequiredAttr"/>
- <vc def="defattrvalid"/>
- <wfc def="CleanAttrVals"/>
- <vc def="FixedAttr"/>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- <p>In an attribute declaration, <kw>#REQUIRED</kw> means that the
- attribute must always be provided, <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> that no default
- value is provided.
- <!-- not any more!!
- <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> means that if the attribute is omitted
- from an element of this type,
- the XML processor must inform the application
- that no value was specified; no constraint is placed on the behavior
- of the application. -->
- <termdef id="dt-default" term="Attribute Default">If the
- declaration
- is neither <kw>#REQUIRED</kw> nor <kw>#IMPLIED</kw>, then the
- <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt> value contains the declared
- <term>default</term> value; the <kw>#FIXED</kw> keyword states that
- the attribute must always have the default value.
- If a default value
- is declared, when an XML processor encounters an omitted attribute, it
- is to behave as though the attribute were present with
- the declared default value.</termdef></p>
- <vcnote id="RequiredAttr">
- <head>Required Attribute</head>
- <p>If the default declaration is the keyword <kw>#REQUIRED</kw>, then
- the attribute must be specified for
- all elements of the type in the attribute-list declaration.
- </p></vcnote>
- <vcnote id="defattrvalid">
- <head>Attribute Default Legal</head>
- <p>
- The declared
- default value must meet the lexical constraints of the declared attribute type.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <vcnote id="FixedAttr">
- <head>Fixed Attribute Default</head>
- <p>If an attribute has a default value declared with the
- <kw>#FIXED</kw> keyword, instances of that attribute must
- match the default value.
- </p></vcnote>
- <p>Examples of attribute-list declarations:
- <eg><!ATTLIST termdef
- id ID #REQUIRED
- name CDATA #IMPLIED>
- <!ATTLIST list
- type (bullets|ordered|glossary) "ordered">
- <!ATTLIST form
- method CDATA #FIXED "POST"></eg></p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="AVNormalize">
- <head>Attribute-Value Normalization</head>
- <p>Before the value of an attribute is passed to the application
- or checked for validity, the
- XML processor must normalize it as follows:
- <ulist>
- <item><p>a character reference is processed by appending the referenced
- character to the attribute value</p></item>
- <item><p>an entity reference is processed by recursively processing the
- replacement text of the entity</p></item>
- <item><p>a whitespace character (#x20, #xD, #xA, #x9) is processed by
- appending #x20 to the normalized value, except that only a single #x20
- is appended for a "#xD#xA" sequence that is part of an external
- parsed entity or the literal entity value of an internal parsed
- entity</p></item>
- <item><p>other characters are processed by appending them to the normalized
- value</p>
- </item></ulist>
- </p>
- <p>If the declared value is not CDATA, then the XML processor must
- further process the normalized attribute value by discarding any
- leading and trailing space (#x20) characters, and by replacing
- sequences of space (#x20) characters by a single space (#x20)
- character.</p>
- <p>
- All attributes for which no declaration has been read should be treated
- by a non-validating parser as if declared
- <kw>CDATA</kw>.
- </p>
- </div3>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="sec-condition-sect">
- <head>Conditional Sections</head>
- <p><termdef id="dt-cond-section" term="conditional section">
- <term>Conditional sections</term> are portions of the
- <termref def="dt-doctype">document type declaration external subset</termref>
- which are
- included in, or excluded from, the logical structure of the DTD based on
- the keyword which governs them.</termdef>
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Conditional Section</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="9" pcw4="14.5">
- <prod id="NT-conditionalSect"><lhs>conditionalSect</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-includeSect">includeSect</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-ignoreSect">ignoreSect</nt>
- </rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-includeSect"><lhs>includeSect</lhs>
- <rhs>'<![' S? 'INCLUDE' S? '['
- <nt def="NT-extSubsetDecl">extSubsetDecl</nt>
- ']]>'
- </rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-ignoreSect"><lhs>ignoreSect</lhs>
- <rhs>'<![' S? 'IGNORE' S? '['
- <nt def="NT-ignoreSectContents">ignoreSectContents</nt>*
- ']]>'</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-ignoreSectContents"><lhs>ignoreSectContents</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Ignore">Ignore</nt>
- ('<![' <nt def="NT-ignoreSectContents">ignoreSectContents</nt> ']]>'
- <nt def="NT-Ignore">Ignore</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Ignore"><lhs>Ignore</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* -
- (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* ('<![' | ']]>')
- <nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>*)
- </rhs></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- <p>Like the internal and external DTD subsets, a conditional section
- may contain one or more complete declarations,
- comments, processing instructions,
- or nested conditional sections, intermingled with white space.
- </p>
- <p>If the keyword of the
- conditional section is <kw>INCLUDE</kw>, then the contents of the conditional
- section are part of the DTD.
- If the keyword of the conditional
- section is <kw>IGNORE</kw>, then the contents of the conditional section are
- not logically part of the DTD.
- Note that for reliable parsing, the contents of even ignored
- conditional sections must be read in order to
- detect nested conditional sections and ensure that the end of the
- outermost (ignored) conditional section is properly detected.
- If a conditional section with a
- keyword of <kw>INCLUDE</kw> occurs within a larger conditional
- section with a keyword of <kw>IGNORE</kw>, both the outer and the
- inner conditional sections are ignored.</p>
- <p>If the keyword of the conditional section is a
- parameter-entity reference, the parameter entity must be replaced by its
- content before the processor decides whether to
- include or ignore the conditional section.</p>
- <p>An example:
- <eg><!ENTITY % draft 'INCLUDE' >
- <!ENTITY % final 'IGNORE' >
-
- <![%draft;[
- <!ELEMENT book (comments*, title, body, supplements?)>
- ]]>
- <![%final;[
- <!ELEMENT book (title, body, supplements?)>
- ]]>
- </eg>
- </p>
- </div2>
- <!--
- <div2 id='sec-pass-to-app'>
- <head>XML Processor Treatment of Logical Structure</head>
- <p>When an XML processor encounters a start-tag, it must make
- at least the following information available to the application:
- <ulist>
- <item>
- <p>the element type's generic identifier</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>the names of attributes known to apply to this element type
- (validating processors must make available names of all attributes
- declared for the element type; non-validating processors must
- make available at least the names of the attributes for which
- values are specified.
- </p>
- </item>
- </ulist>
- </p>
- </div2>
- -->
- </div1>
- <!-- &Entities; -->
-
- <div1 id="sec-physical-struct">
- <head>Physical Structures</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-entity" term="Entity">An XML document may consist
- of one or many storage units. These are called
- <term>entities</term>; they all have <term>content</term> and are all
- (except for the document entity, see below, and
- the <termref def="dt-doctype">external DTD subset</termref>)
- identified by <term>name</term>.
- </termdef>
- Each XML document has one entity
- called the <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, which serves
- as the starting point for the <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML
- processor</termref> and may contain the whole document.</p>
- <p>Entities may be either parsed or unparsed.
- <termdef id="dt-parsedent" term="Text Entity">A <term>parsed entity's</term>
- contents are referred to as its
- <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref>;
- this <termref def="dt-text">text</termref> is considered an
- integral part of the document.</termdef></p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-unparsed" term="Unparsed Entity">An
- <term>unparsed entity</term>
- is a resource whose contents may or may not be
- <termref def="dt-text">text</termref>, and if text, may not be XML.
- Each unparsed entity
- has an associated <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>, identified by name.
- Beyond a requirement
- that an XML processor make the identifiers for the entity and
- notation available to the application,
- XML places no constraints on the contents of unparsed entities.</termdef>
- </p>
- <p>
- Parsed entities are invoked by name using entity references;
- unparsed entities by name, given in the value of <kw>ENTITY</kw>
- or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>
- attributes.</p>
- <p><termdef id="gen-entity" term="general entity"><term>General entities</term>
- are entities for use within the document content.
- In this specification, general entities are sometimes referred
- to with the unqualified term <emph>entity</emph> when this leads
- to no ambiguity.</termdef>
- <termdef id="dt-PE" term="Parameter entity">Parameter entities
- are parsed entities for use within the DTD.</termdef>
- These two types of entities use different forms of reference and
- are recognized in different contexts.
- Furthermore, they occupy different namespaces; a parameter entity and
- a general entity with the same name are two distinct entities.
- </p>
- <div2 id="sec-references">
- <head>Character and Entity References</head>
- <p><termdef id="dt-charref" term="Character Reference">
- A <term>character reference</term> refers to a specific character in the
- ISO/IEC 10646 character set, for example one not directly accessible from
- available input devices.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Character Reference</head>
- <prod id="NT-CharRef"><lhs>CharRef</lhs>
- <rhs>'&#' [0-9]+ ';' </rhs>
- <rhs>| '&hcro;' [0-9a-fA-F]+ ';'</rhs>
- <wfc def="wf-Legalchar"/>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- <wfcnote id="wf-Legalchar">
- <head>Legal Character</head>
- <p>Characters referred to using character references must
- match the production for
- <termref def="NT-Char">Char</termref>.</p>
- </wfcnote>
- If the character reference begins with "<code>&#x</code>", the digits and
- letters up to the terminating <code>;</code> provide a hexadecimal
- representation of the character's code point in ISO/IEC 10646.
- If it begins just with "<code>&#</code>", the digits up to the terminating
- <code>;</code> provide a decimal representation of the character's
- code point.
- </termdef>
- </p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-entref" term="Entity Reference">An <term>entity
- reference</term> refers to the content of a named entity.</termdef>
- <termdef id="dt-GERef" term="General Entity Reference">References to
- parsed general entities
- use ampersand (<code>&</code>) and semicolon (<code>;</code>) as
- delimiters.</termdef>
- <termdef id="dt-PERef" term="Parameter-entity reference">
- <term>Parameter-entity references</term> use percent-sign (<code>%</code>) and
- semicolon
- (<code>;</code>) as delimiters.</termdef>
- </p>
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Entity Reference</head>
- <prod id="NT-Reference"><lhs>Reference</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-EntityRef">EntityRef</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-CharRef">CharRef</nt></rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-EntityRef"><lhs>EntityRef</lhs>
- <rhs>'&' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ';'</rhs>
- <wfc def="wf-entdeclared"/>
- <vc def="vc-entdeclared"/>
- <wfc def="textent"/>
- <wfc def="norecursion"/>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-PEReference"><lhs>PEReference</lhs>
- <rhs>'%' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ';'</rhs>
- <vc def="vc-entdeclared"/>
- <wfc def="norecursion"/>
- <wfc def="indtd"/>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- <wfcnote id="wf-entdeclared">
- <head>Entity Declared</head>
- <p>In a document without any DTD, a document with only an internal
- DTD subset which contains no parameter entity references, or a document with
- "<code>standalone='yes'</code>",
- the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> given in the entity reference must
- <termref def="dt-match">match</termref> that in an
- <titleref href="sec-entity-decl">entity declaration</titleref>, except that
- well-formed documents need not declare
- any of the following entities: &magicents;.
- The declaration of a parameter entity must precede any reference to it.
- Similarly, the declaration of a general entity must precede any
- reference to it which appears in a default value in an attribute-list
- declaration.</p>
- <p>Note that if entities are declared in the external subset or in
- external parameter entities, a non-validating processor is
- <titleref href="include-if-valid">not obligated to</titleref> read
- and process their declarations; for such documents, the rule that
- an entity must be declared is a well-formedness constraint only
- if <titleref href="sec-rmd">standalone='yes'</titleref>.</p>
- </wfcnote>
- <vcnote id="vc-entdeclared">
- <head>Entity Declared</head>
- <p>In a document with an external subset or external parameter
- entities with "<code>standalone='no'</code>",
- the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> given in the entity reference must <termref def="dt-match">match</termref> that in an
- <titleref href="sec-entity-decl">entity declaration</titleref>.
- For interoperability, valid documents should declare the entities
- &magicents;, in the form
- specified in <specref ref="sec-predefined-ent"/>.
- The declaration of a parameter entity must precede any reference to it.
- Similarly, the declaration of a general entity must precede any
- reference to it which appears in a default value in an attribute-list
- declaration.</p>
- </vcnote>
- <!-- FINAL EDIT: is this duplication too clumsy? -->
- <wfcnote id="textent">
- <head>Parsed Entity</head>
- <p>
- An entity reference must not contain the name of an <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed entity</termref>. Unparsed entities may be referred
- to only in <termref def="dt-attrval">attribute values</termref> declared to
- be of type <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>.
- </p>
- </wfcnote>
- <wfcnote id="norecursion">
- <head>No Recursion</head>
- <p>
- A parsed entity must not contain a recursive reference to itself,
- either directly or indirectly.
- </p>
- </wfcnote>
- <wfcnote id="indtd">
- <head>In DTD</head>
- <p>
- Parameter-entity references may only appear in the
- <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>.
- </p>
- </wfcnote>
- <p>Examples of character and entity references:
- <eg>Type <key>less-than</key> (&hcro;3C;) to save options.
- This document was prepared on &docdate; and
- is classified &security-level;.</eg></p>
- <p>Example of a parameter-entity reference:
- <eg><![CDATA[<!-- declare the parameter entity "ISOLat2"... -->
- <!ENTITY % ISOLat2
- SYSTEM "http://www.xml.com/iso/isolat2-xml.entities" >
- <!-- ... now reference it. -->
- %ISOLat2;]]></eg></p>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="sec-entity-decl">
- <head>Entity Declarations</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-entdecl" term="entity declaration">
- Entities are declared thus:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Entity Declaration</head>
- <prodgroup pcw2="5" pcw4="18.5">
- <prod id="NT-EntityDecl"><lhs>EntityDecl</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-GEDecl">GEDecl</nt><!--</rhs><com>General entities</com>
- <rhs>--> | <nt def="NT-PEDecl">PEDecl</nt></rhs>
- <!--<com>Parameter entities</com>-->
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-GEDecl"><lhs>GEDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>'<!ENTITY' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-EntityDef">EntityDef</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-PEDecl"><lhs>PEDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>'<!ENTITY' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> '%' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-PEDef">PEDef</nt> <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs>
- <!--<com>Parameter entities</com>-->
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-EntityDef"><lhs>EntityDef</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>
- <!--</rhs>
- <rhs>-->| (<nt def="NT-ExternalID">ExternalID</nt>
- <nt def="NT-NDataDecl">NDataDecl</nt>?)</rhs>
- <!-- <nt def='NT-ExternalDef'>ExternalDef</nt></rhs> -->
- </prod>
- <!-- FINAL EDIT: what happened to WFs here? -->
- <prod id="NT-PEDef"><lhs>PEDef</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-ExternalID">ExternalID</nt></rhs></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> identifies the entity in an
- <termref def="dt-entref">entity reference</termref> or, in the case of an
- unparsed entity, in the value of an <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>
- attribute.
- If the same entity is declared more than once, the first declaration
- encountered is binding; at user option, an XML processor may issue a
- warning if entities are declared multiple times.</termdef>
- </p>
- <div3 id="sec-internal-ent">
- <head>Internal Entities</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-internent" term="Internal Entity Replacement Text">If
- the entity definition is an
- <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>,
- the defined entity is called an <term>internal entity</term>.
- There is no separate physical
- storage object, and the content of the entity is given in the
- declaration. </termdef>
- Note that some processing of entity and character references in the
- <termref def="dt-litentval">literal entity value</termref> may be required to
- produce the correct <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement
- text</termref>: see <specref ref="intern-replacement"/>.
- </p>
- <p>An internal entity is a <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed
- entity</termref>.</p>
- <p>Example of an internal entity declaration:
- <eg><!ENTITY Pub-Status "This is a pre-release of the
- specification."></eg></p>
- </div3>
-
- <div3 id="sec-external-ent">
- <head>External Entities</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-extent" term="External Entity">If the entity is not
- internal, it is an <term>external
- entity</term>, declared as follows:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>External Entity Declaration</head>
- <!--
- <prod id='NT-ExternalDef'><lhs>ExternalDef</lhs>
- <rhs></prod> -->
- <prod id="NT-ExternalID"><lhs>ExternalID</lhs>
- <rhs>'SYSTEM' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt></rhs>
- <rhs>| 'PUBLIC' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-PubidLiteral">PubidLiteral</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt>
- </rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-NDataDecl"><lhs>NDataDecl</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> 'NDATA' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt></rhs>
- <vc def="not-declared"/></prod>
- </scrap>
- If the <nt def="NT-NDataDecl">NDataDecl</nt> is present, this is a
- general <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed
- entity</termref>; otherwise it is a parsed entity.</termdef></p>
- <vcnote id="not-declared">
- <head>Notation Declared</head>
- <p>
- The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> must match the declared name of a
- <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>.
- </p>
- </vcnote>
- <p><termdef id="dt-sysid" term="System Identifier">The
- <nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt>
- is called the entity's <term>system identifier</term>. It is a URI,
- which may be used to retrieve the entity.</termdef>
- Note that the hash mark (<code>#</code>) and fragment identifier
- frequently used with URIs are not, formally, part of the URI itself;
- an XML processor may signal an error if a fragment identifier is
- given as part of a system identifier.
- Unless otherwise provided by information outside the scope of this
- specification (e.g. a special XML element type defined by a particular
- DTD, or a processing instruction defined by a particular application
- specification), relative URIs are relative to the location of the
- resource within which the entity declaration occurs.
- A URI might thus be relative to the
- <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, to the entity
- containing the <termref def="dt-doctype">external DTD subset</termref>,
- or to some other <termref def="dt-extent">external parameter entity</termref>.
- </p>
- <p>An XML processor should handle a non-ASCII character in a URI by
- representing the character in UTF-8 as one or more bytes, and then
- escaping these bytes with the URI escaping mechanism (i.e., by
- converting each byte to %HH, where HH is the hexadecimal notation of the
- byte value).</p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-pubid" term="Public identifier">
- In addition to a system identifier, an external identifier may
- include a <term>public identifier</term>.</termdef>
- An XML processor attempting to retrieve the entity's content may use the public
- identifier to try to generate an alternative URI. If the processor
- is unable to do so, it must use the URI specified in the system
- literal. Before a match is attempted, all strings
- of white space in the public identifier must be normalized to single space characters (#x20),
- and leading and trailing white space must be removed.</p>
- <p>Examples of external entity declarations:
- <eg><!ENTITY open-hatch
- SYSTEM "http://www.textuality.com/boilerplate/OpenHatch.xml">
- <!ENTITY open-hatch
- PUBLIC "-//Textuality//TEXT Standard open-hatch boilerplate//EN"
- "http://www.textuality.com/boilerplate/OpenHatch.xml">
- <!ENTITY hatch-pic
- SYSTEM "../grafix/OpenHatch.gif"
- NDATA gif ></eg></p>
- </div3>
-
- </div2>
- <div2 id="TextEntities">
- <head>Parsed Entities</head>
- <div3 id="sec-TextDecl">
- <head>The Text Declaration</head>
- <p>External parsed entities may each begin with a <term>text
- declaration</term>.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Text Declaration</head>
- <prodgroup pcw4="12.5" pcw5="13">
- <prod id="NT-TextDecl"><lhs>TextDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>&xmlpio;
- <nt def="NT-VersionInfo">VersionInfo</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-EncodingDecl">EncodingDecl</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? &pic;</rhs>
- </prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- <p>The text declaration must be provided literally, not
- by reference to a parsed entity.
- No text declaration may appear at any position other than the beginning of
- an external parsed entity.</p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="wf-entities">
- <head>Well-Formed Parsed Entities</head>
- <p>The document entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled
- <nt def="NT-document">document</nt>.
- An external general
- parsed entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled
- <nt def="NT-extParsedEnt">extParsedEnt</nt>.
- An external parameter
- entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled
- <nt def="NT-extPE">extPE</nt>.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Well-Formed External Parsed Entity</head>
- <prod id="NT-extParsedEnt"><lhs>extParsedEnt</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-TextDecl">TextDecl</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-content">content</nt></rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-extPE"><lhs>extPE</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-TextDecl">TextDecl</nt>?
- <nt def="NT-extSubsetDecl">extSubsetDecl</nt></rhs>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- An internal general parsed entity is well-formed if its replacement text
- matches the production labeled
- <nt def="NT-content">content</nt>.
- All internal parameter entities are well-formed by definition.
- </p>
- <p>A consequence of well-formedness in entities is that the logical
- and physical structures in an XML document are properly nested; no
- <termref def="dt-stag">start-tag</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-etag">end-tag</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-empty">empty-element tag</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-element">element</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-comment">comment</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-pi">processing instruction</termref>,
- <termref def="dt-charref">character
- reference</termref>, or
- <termref def="dt-entref">entity reference</termref>
- can begin in one entity and end in another.</p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="charencoding">
- <head>Character Encoding in Entities</head>
-
- <p>Each external parsed entity in an XML document may use a different
- encoding for its characters. All XML processors must be able to read
- entities in either UTF-8 or UTF-16.
- </p>
- <p>Entities encoded in UTF-16 must
- begin with the Byte Order Mark described by ISO/IEC 10646 Annex E and
- Unicode Appendix B (the ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE character, #xFEFF).
- This is an encoding signature, not part of either the markup or the
- character data of the XML document.
- XML processors must be able to use this character to
- differentiate between UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded documents.</p>
- <p>Although an XML processor is required to read only entities in
- the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings, it is recognized that other encodings are
- used around the world, and it may be desired for XML processors
- to read entities that use them.
- Parsed entities which are stored in an encoding other than
- UTF-8 or UTF-16 must begin with a <titleref href="TextDecl">text
- declaration</titleref> containing an encoding declaration:
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Encoding Declaration</head>
- <prod id="NT-EncodingDecl"><lhs>EncodingDecl</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- 'encoding' <nt def="NT-Eq">Eq</nt>
- ('"' <nt def="NT-EncName">EncName</nt> '"' |
- "'" <nt def="NT-EncName">EncName</nt> "'" )
- </rhs>
- </prod>
- <prod id="NT-EncName"><lhs>EncName</lhs>
- <rhs>[A-Za-z] ([A-Za-z0-9._] | '-')*</rhs>
- <com>Encoding name contains only Latin characters</com>
- </prod>
- </scrap>
- In the <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, the encoding
- declaration is part of the <termref def="dt-xmldecl">XML declaration</termref>.
- The <nt def="NT-EncName">EncName</nt> is the name of the encoding used.
- </p>
- <!-- FINAL EDIT: check name of IANA and charset names -->
- <p>In an encoding declaration, the values
- "<code>UTF-8</code>",
- "<code>UTF-16</code>",
- "<code>ISO-10646-UCS-2</code>", and
- "<code>ISO-10646-UCS-4</code>" should be
- used for the various encodings and transformations of Unicode /
- ISO/IEC 10646, the values
- "<code>ISO-8859-1</code>",
- "<code>ISO-8859-2</code>", ...
- "<code>ISO-8859-9</code>" should be used for the parts of ISO 8859, and
- the values
- "<code>ISO-2022-JP</code>",
- "<code>Shift_JIS</code>", and
- "<code>EUC-JP</code>"
- should be used for the various encoded forms of JIS X-0208-1997. XML
- processors may recognize other encodings; it is recommended that
- character encodings registered (as <emph>charset</emph>s)
- with the Internet Assigned Numbers
- Authority <bibref ref="IANA"/>, other than those just listed, should be
- referred to
- using their registered names.
- Note that these registered names are defined to be
- case-insensitive, so processors wishing to match against them
- should do so in a case-insensitive
- way.</p>
- <p>In the absence of information provided by an external
- transport protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME),
- it is an <termref def="dt-error">error</termref> for an entity including
- an encoding declaration to be presented to the XML processor
- in an encoding other than that named in the declaration,
- for an encoding declaration to occur other than at the beginning
- of an external entity, or for
- an entity which begins with neither a Byte Order Mark nor an encoding
- declaration to use an encoding other than UTF-8.
- Note that since ASCII
- is a subset of UTF-8, ordinary ASCII entities do not strictly need
- an encoding declaration.</p>
- <p>It is a <termref def="dt-fatal">fatal error</termref> when an XML processor
- encounters an entity with an encoding that it is unable to process.</p>
- <p>Examples of encoding declarations:
- <eg><?xml encoding='UTF-8'?>
- <?xml encoding='EUC-JP'?></eg></p>
- </div3>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="entproc">
- <head>XML Processor Treatment of Entities and References</head>
- <p>The table below summarizes the contexts in which character references,
- entity references, and invocations of unparsed entities might appear and the
- required behavior of an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref> in
- each case.
- The labels in the leftmost column describe the recognition context:
- <glist>
- <gitem><label>Reference in Content</label>
- <def><p>as a reference
- anywhere after the <termref def="dt-stag">start-tag</termref> and
- before the <termref def="dt-etag">end-tag</termref> of an element; corresponds
- to the nonterminal <nt def="NT-content">content</nt>.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>Reference in Attribute Value</label>
- <def><p>as a reference within either the value of an attribute in a
- <termref def="dt-stag">start-tag</termref>, or a default
- value in an <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute declaration</termref>;
- corresponds to the nonterminal
- <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>.</p></def></gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label>Occurs as Attribute Value</label>
- <def><p>as a <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>, not a reference, appearing either as
- the value of an
- attribute which has been declared as type <kw>ENTITY</kw>, or as one of
- the space-separated tokens in the value of an attribute which has been
- declared as type <kw>ENTITIES</kw>.</p>
- </def></gitem>
- <gitem><label>Reference in Entity Value</label>
- <def><p>as a reference
- within a parameter or internal entity's
- <termref def="dt-litentval">literal entity value</termref> in
- the entity's declaration; corresponds to the nonterminal
- <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>.</p></def></gitem>
- <gitem><label>Reference in DTD</label>
- <def><p>as a reference within either the internal or external subsets of the
- <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>, but outside
- of an <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt> or
- <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- </glist></p>
- <htable border="1" cellpadding="7" align="center">
- <htbody>
- <tr><td bgcolor="&cellback;" rowspan="2" colspan="1"/>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="center" valign="bottom" colspan="4">Entity Type</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;" rowspan="2" align="center">Character</td>
- </tr>
- <tr align="center" valign="bottom">
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;">Parameter</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;">Internal
- General</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;">External Parsed
- General</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;">Unparsed</td>
- </tr>
- <tr align="center" valign="middle">
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Reference
- in Content</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Not recognized</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="included">Included</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="include-if-valid">Included if validating</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="included">Included</titleref></td>
- </tr>
- <tr align="center" valign="middle">
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Reference
- in Attribute Value</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Not recognized</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="inliteral">Included in literal</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="included">Included</titleref></td>
- </tr>
- <tr align="center" valign="middle">
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Occurs as
- Attribute Value</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Not recognized</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="notify">Notify</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not recognized">Not recognized</titleref></td>
- </tr>
- <tr align="center" valign="middle">
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Reference
- in EntityValue</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="inliteral">Included in literal</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="bypass">Bypassed</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="bypass">Bypassed</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="included">Included</titleref></td>
- </tr>
- <tr align="center" valign="middle">
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Reference
- in DTD</td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="as-PE">Included as PE</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td>
- </tr>
- </htbody>
- </htable>
- <div3 id="not-recognized">
- <head>Not Recognized</head>
- <p>Outside the DTD, the <code>%</code> character has no
- special significance; thus, what would be parameter entity references in the
- DTD are not recognized as markup in <nt def="NT-content">content</nt>.
- Similarly, the names of unparsed entities are not recognized except
- when they appear in the value of an appropriately declared attribute.
- </p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="included">
- <head>Included</head>
- <p><termdef id="dt-include" term="Include">An entity is
- <term>included</term> when its
- <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> is retrieved
- and processed, in place of the reference itself,
- as though it were part of the document at the location the
- reference was recognized.
- The replacement text may contain both
- <termref def="dt-chardata">character data</termref>
- and (except for parameter entities) <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>,
- which must be recognized in
- the usual way, except that the replacement text of entities used to escape
- markup delimiters (the entities &magicents;) is always treated as
- data. (The string "<code>AT&amp;T;</code>" expands to
- "<code>AT&T;</code>" and the remaining ampersand is not recognized
- as an entity-reference delimiter.)
- A character reference is <term>included</term> when the indicated
- character is processed in place of the reference itself.
- </termdef></p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="include-if-valid">
- <head>Included If Validating</head>
- <p>When an XML processor recognizes a reference to a parsed entity, in order
- to <termref def="dt-valid">validate</termref>
- the document, the processor must
- <termref def="dt-include">include</termref> its
- replacement text.
- If the entity is external, and the processor is not
- attempting to validate the XML document, the
- processor <termref def="dt-may">may</termref>, but need not,
- include the entity's replacement text.
- If a non-validating parser does not include the replacement text,
- it must inform the application that it recognized, but did not
- read, the entity.</p>
- <p>This rule is based on the recognition that the automatic inclusion
- provided by the SGML and XML entity mechanism, primarily designed
- to support modularity in authoring, is not necessarily
- appropriate for other applications, in particular document browsing.
- Browsers, for example, when encountering an external parsed entity reference,
- might choose to provide a visual indication of the entity's
- presence and retrieve it for display only on demand.
- </p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="forbidden">
- <head>Forbidden</head>
- <p>The following are forbidden, and constitute
- <termref def="dt-fatal">fatal</termref> errors:
- <ulist>
- <item><p>the appearance of a reference to an
- <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed entity</termref>.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>the appearance of any character or general-entity reference in the
- DTD except within an <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt> or
- <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>.</p></item>
- <item><p>a reference to an external entity in an attribute value.</p>
- </item>
- </ulist>
- </p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="inliteral">
- <head>Included in Literal</head>
- <p>When an <termref def="dt-entref">entity reference</termref> appears in an
- attribute value, or a parameter entity reference appears in a literal entity
- value, its <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> is
- processed in place of the reference itself as though it
- were part of the document at the location the reference was recognized,
- except that a single or double quote character in the replacement text
- is always treated as a normal data character and will not terminate the
- literal.
- For example, this is well-formed:
- <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY % YN '"Yes"' >
- <!ENTITY WhatHeSaid "He said &YN;" >]]></eg>
- while this is not:
- <eg><!ENTITY EndAttr "27'" >
- <element attribute='a-&EndAttr;></eg>
- </p></div3>
- <div3 id="notify">
- <head>Notify</head>
- <p>When the name of an <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed
- entity</termref> appears as a token in the
- value of an attribute of declared type <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>,
- a validating processor must inform the
- application of the <termref def="dt-sysid">system</termref>
- and <termref def="dt-pubid">public</termref> (if any)
- identifiers for both the entity and its associated
- <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>.</p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="bypass">
- <head>Bypassed</head>
- <p>When a general entity reference appears in the
- <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt> in an entity declaration,
- it is bypassed and left as is.</p>
- </div3>
- <div3 id="as-PE">
- <head>Included as PE</head>
- <p>Just as with external parsed entities, parameter entities
- need only be <titleref href="include-if-valid">included if
- validating</titleref>.
- When a parameter-entity reference is recognized in the DTD
- and included, its
- <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement
- text</termref> is enlarged by the attachment of one leading and one following
- space (#x20) character; the intent is to constrain the replacement
- text of parameter
- entities to contain an integral number of grammatical tokens in the DTD.
- </p>
- </div3>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="intern-replacement">
- <head>Construction of Internal Entity Replacement Text</head>
- <p>In discussing the treatment
- of internal entities, it is
- useful to distinguish two forms of the entity's value.
- <termdef id="dt-litentval" term="Literal Entity Value">The <term>literal
- entity value</term> is the quoted string actually
- present in the entity declaration, corresponding to the
- non-terminal <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>.</termdef>
- <termdef id="dt-repltext" term="Replacement Text">The <term>replacement
- text</term> is the content of the entity, after
- replacement of character references and parameter-entity
- references.
- </termdef></p>
- <p>The literal entity value
- as given in an internal entity declaration
- (<nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>) may contain character,
- parameter-entity, and general-entity references.
- Such references must be contained entirely within the
- literal entity value.
- The actual replacement text that is
- <termref def="dt-include">included</termref> as described above
- must contain the <emph>replacement text</emph> of any
- parameter entities referred to, and must contain the character
- referred to, in place of any character references in the
- literal entity value; however,
- general-entity references must be left as-is, unexpanded.
- For example, given the following declarations:
- <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY % pub "Éditions Gallimard" >
- <!ENTITY rights "All rights reserved" >
- <!ENTITY book "La Peste: Albert Camus,
- © 1947 %pub;. &rights;" >]]></eg>
- then the replacement text for the entity "<code>book</code>" is:
- <eg>La Peste: Albert Camus,
- © 1947 Éditions Gallimard. &rights;</eg>
- The general-entity reference "<code>&rights;</code>" would be expanded
- should the reference "<code>&book;</code>" appear in the document's
- content or an attribute value.</p>
- <p>These simple rules may have complex interactions; for a detailed
- discussion of a difficult example, see
- <specref ref="sec-entexpand"/>.
- </p>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="sec-predefined-ent">
- <head>Predefined Entities</head>
- <p><termdef id="dt-escape" term="escape">Entity and character
- references can both be used to <term>escape</term> the left angle bracket,
- ampersand, and other delimiters. A set of general entities
- (&magicents;) is specified for this purpose.
- Numeric character references may also be used; they are
- expanded immediately when recognized and must be treated as
- character data, so the numeric character references
- "<code>&#60;</code>" and "<code>&#38;</code>" may be used to
- escape <code><</code> and <code>&</code> when they occur
- in character data.</termdef></p>
- <p>All XML processors must recognize these entities whether they
- are declared or not.
- <termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability</termref>,
- valid XML documents should declare these
- entities, like any others, before using them.
- If the entities in question are declared, they must be declared
- as internal entities whose replacement text is the single
- character being escaped or a character reference to
- that character, as shown below.
- <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY lt "&#60;">
- <!ENTITY gt ">">
- <!ENTITY amp "&#38;">
- <!ENTITY apos "'">
- <!ENTITY quot """>
- ]]></eg>
- Note that the <code><</code> and <code>&</code> characters
- in the declarations of "<code>lt</code>" and "<code>amp</code>"
- are doubly escaped to meet the requirement that entity replacement
- be well-formed.
- </p>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="Notations">
- <head>Notation Declarations</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-notation" term="Notation"><term>Notations</term> identify by
- name the format of <termref def="dt-extent">unparsed
- entities</termref>, the
- format of elements which bear a notation attribute,
- or the application to which
- a <termref def="dt-pi">processing instruction</termref> is
- addressed.</termdef></p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-notdecl" term="Notation Declaration">
- <term>Notation declarations</term>
- provide a name for the notation, for use in
- entity and attribute-list declarations and in attribute specifications,
- and an external identifier for the notation which may allow an XML
- processor or its client application to locate a helper application
- capable of processing data in the given notation.
- <scrap lang="ebnf">
- <head>Notation Declarations</head>
- <prod id="NT-NotationDecl"><lhs>NotationDecl</lhs>
- <rhs>'<!NOTATION' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- (<nt def="NT-ExternalID">ExternalID</nt> |
- <nt def="NT-PublicID">PublicID</nt>)
- <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-PublicID"><lhs>PublicID</lhs>
- <rhs>'PUBLIC' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
- <nt def="NT-PubidLiteral">PubidLiteral</nt>
- </rhs></prod>
- </scrap>
- </termdef></p>
- <p>XML processors must provide applications with the name and external
- identifier(s) of any notation declared and referred to in an attribute
- value, attribute definition, or entity declaration. They may
- additionally resolve the external identifier into the
- <termref def="dt-sysid">system identifier</termref>,
- file name, or other information needed to allow the
- application to call a processor for data in the notation described. (It
- is not an error, however, for XML documents to declare and refer to
- notations for which notation-specific applications are not available on
- the system where the XML processor or application is running.)</p>
- </div2>
-
- <div2 id="sec-doc-entity">
- <head>Document Entity</head>
-
- <p><termdef id="dt-docent" term="Document Entity">The <term>document
- entity</term> serves as the root of the entity
- tree and a starting-point for an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML
- processor</termref>.</termdef>
- This specification does
- not specify how the document entity is to be located by an XML
- processor; unlike other entities, the document entity has no name and might
- well appear on a processor input stream
- without any identification at all.</p>
- </div2>
- </div1>
- <!-- &Conformance; -->
-
- <div1 id="sec-conformance">
- <head>Conformance</head>
-
- <div2 id="proc-types">
- <head>Validating and Non-Validating Processors</head>
- <p>Conforming <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processors</termref> fall into two
- classes: validating and non-validating.</p>
- <p>Validating and non-validating processors alike must report
- violations of this specification's well-formedness constraints
- in the content of the
- <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref> and any
- other <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed entities</termref> that
- they read.</p>
- <p><termdef id="dt-validating" term="Validating Processor">
- <term>Validating processors</term> must report
- violations of the constraints expressed by the declarations in the
- <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>, and
- failures to fulfill the validity constraints given
- in this specification.
- </termdef>
- To accomplish this, validating XML processors must read and process the entire
- DTD and all external parsed entities referenced in the document.
- </p>
- <p>Non-validating processors are required to check only the
- <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, including
- the entire internal DTD subset, for well-formedness.
- <termdef id="dt-use-mdecl" term="Process Declarations">
- While they are not required to check the document for validity,
- they are required to
- <term>process</term> all the declarations they read in the
- internal DTD subset and in any parameter entity that they
- read, up to the first reference
- to a parameter entity that they do <emph>not</emph> read; that is to
- say, they must
- use the information in those declarations to
- <titleref href="AVNormalize">normalize</titleref> attribute values,
- <titleref href="included">include</titleref> the replacement text of
- internal entities, and supply
- <titleref href="sec-attr-defaults">default attribute values</titleref>.
- </termdef>
- They must not <termref def="dt-use-mdecl">process</termref>
- <termref def="dt-entdecl">entity declarations</termref> or
- <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute-list declarations</termref>
- encountered after a reference to a parameter entity that is not
- read, since the entity may have contained overriding declarations.
- </p>
- </div2>
- <div2 id="safe-behavior">
- <head>Using XML Processors</head>
- <p>The behavior of a validating XML processor is highly predictable; it
- must read every piece of a document and report all well-formedness and
- validity violations.
- Less is required of a non-validating processor; it need not read any
- part of the document other than the document entity.
- This has two effects that may be important to users of XML processors:
- <ulist>
- <item><p>Certain well-formedness errors, specifically those that require
- reading external entities, may not be detected by a non-validating processor.
- Examples include the constraints entitled
- <titleref href="wf-entdeclared">Entity Declared</titleref>,
- <titleref href="wf-textent">Parsed Entity</titleref>, and
- <titleref href="wf-norecursion">No Recursion</titleref>, as well
- as some of the cases described as
- <titleref href="forbidden">forbidden</titleref> in
- <specref ref="entproc"/>.</p></item>
- <item><p>The information passed from the processor to the application may
- vary, depending on whether the processor reads
- parameter and external entities.
- For example, a non-validating processor may not
- <titleref href="AVNormalize">normalize</titleref> attribute values,
- <titleref href="included">include</titleref> the replacement text of
- internal entities, or supply
- <titleref href="sec-attr-defaults">default attribute values</titleref>,
- where doing so depends on having read declarations in
- external or parameter entities.</p></item>
- </ulist>
- </p>
- <p>For maximum reliability in interoperating between different XML
- processors, applications which use non-validating processors should not
- rely on any behaviors not required of such processors.
- Applications which require facilities such as the use of default
- attributes or internal entities which are declared in external
- entities should use validating XML processors.</p>
- </div2>
- </div1>
- <div1 id="sec-notation">
- <head>Notation</head>
-
- <p>The formal grammar of XML is given in this specification using a simple
- Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) notation. Each rule in the grammar defines
- one symbol, in the form
- <eg>symbol ::= expression</eg></p>
- <p>Symbols are written with an initial capital letter if they are
- defined by a regular expression, or with an initial lower case letter
- otherwise.
- Literal strings are quoted.
- </p>
- <p>Within the expression on the right-hand side of a rule, the following
- expressions are used to match strings of one or more characters:
- <glist>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>#xN</code></label>
- <def><p>where <code>N</code> is a hexadecimal integer, the
- expression matches the character in ISO/IEC 10646 whose canonical
- (UCS-4)
- code value, when interpreted as an unsigned binary number, has
- the value indicated. The number of leading zeros in the
- <code>#xN</code> form is insignificant; the number of leading
- zeros in the corresponding code value
- is governed by the character
- encoding in use and is not significant for XML.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>[a-zA-Z]</code>, <code>[#xN-#xN]</code></label>
- <def><p>matches any <termref def="dt-character">character</termref>
- with a value in the range(s) indicated (inclusive).</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>[^a-z]</code>, <code>[^#xN-#xN]</code></label>
- <def><p>matches any <termref def="dt-character">character</termref>
- with a value <emph>outside</emph> the
- range indicated.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>[^abc]</code>, <code>[^#xN#xN#xN]</code></label>
- <def><p>matches any <termref def="dt-character">character</termref>
- with a value not among the characters given.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>"string"</code></label>
- <def><p>matches a literal string <termref def="dt-match">matching</termref>
- that given inside the double quotes.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>'string'</code></label>
- <def><p>matches a literal string <termref def="dt-match">matching</termref>
- that given inside the single quotes.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- </glist>
- These symbols may be combined to match more complex patterns as follows,
- where <code>A</code> and <code>B</code> represent simple expressions:
- <glist>
- <gitem>
- <label>(<code>expression</code>)</label>
- <def><p><code>expression</code> is treated as a unit
- and may be combined as described in this list.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>A?</code></label>
- <def><p>matches <code>A</code> or nothing; optional <code>A</code>.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>A B</code></label>
- <def><p>matches <code>A</code> followed by <code>B</code>.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>A | B</code></label>
- <def><p>matches <code>A</code> or <code>B</code> but not both.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>A - B</code></label>
- <def><p>matches any string that matches <code>A</code> but does not match
- <code>B</code>.
- </p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>A+</code></label>
- <def><p>matches one or more occurrences of <code>A</code>.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>A*</code></label>
- <def><p>matches zero or more occurrences of <code>A</code>.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- </glist>
- Other notations used in the productions are:
- <glist>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>/* ... */</code></label>
- <def><p>comment.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>[ wfc: ... ]</code></label>
- <def><p>well-formedness constraint; this identifies by name a
- constraint on
- <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> documents
- associated with a production.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- <gitem>
- <label><code>[ vc: ... ]</code></label>
- <def><p>validity constraint; this identifies by name a constraint on
- <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> documents associated with
- a production.</p></def>
- </gitem>
- </glist>
- </p></div1>
- </body>
- <back>
- <!-- &SGML; -->
-
- <!-- &Biblio; -->
- <div1 id="sec-bibliography">
- <head>References</head>
- <div2 id="sec-existing-stds">
- <head>Normative References</head>
- <blist>
- <bibl id="IANA" key="IANA">
- (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) <emph>Official Names for
- Character Sets</emph>,
- ed. Keld Simonsen et al.
- See <loc href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets">ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets</loc>.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="RFC1766" key="IETF RFC 1766">
- IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
- <emph>RFC 1766: Tags for the Identification of Languages</emph>,
- ed. H. Alvestrand.
- 1995.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="ISO639" key="ISO 639">
- (International Organization for Standardization).
- <emph>ISO 639:1988 (E).
- Code for the representation of names of languages.</emph>
- [Geneva]: International Organization for
- Standardization, 1988.</bibl>
- <bibl id="ISO3166" key="ISO 3166">
- (International Organization for Standardization).
- <emph>ISO 3166-1:1997 (E).
- Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
- — Part 1: Country codes</emph>
- [Geneva]: International Organization for
- Standardization, 1997.</bibl>
- <bibl id="ISO10646" key="ISO/IEC 10646">ISO
- (International Organization for Standardization).
- <emph>ISO/IEC 10646-1993 (E). Information technology — Universal
- Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) — Part 1:
- Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane.</emph>
- [Geneva]: International Organization for
- Standardization, 1993 (plus amendments AM 1 through AM 7).
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="Unicode" key="Unicode">The Unicode Consortium.
- <emph>The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0.</emph>
- Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1996.</bibl>
- </blist>
- </div2>
- <div2><head>Other References</head>
- <blist>
- <bibl id="Aho" key="Aho/Ullman">Aho, Alfred V.,
- Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman.
- <emph>Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools</emph>.
- Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1986, rpt. corr. 1988.</bibl>
- <bibl id="Berners-Lee" xml-link="simple" key="Berners-Lee et al.">
- Berners-Lee, T., R. Fielding, and L. Masinter.
- <emph>Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and
- Semantics</emph>.
- 1997.
- (Work in progress; see updates to RFC1738.)</bibl>
- <bibl id="ABK" key="Brüggemann-Klein">Brüggemann-Klein, Anne.
- <emph>Regular Expressions into Finite Automata</emph>.
- Extended abstract in I. Simon, Hrsg., LATIN 1992,
- S. 97-98. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1992.
- Full Version in Theoretical Computer Science 120: 197-213, 1993.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="ABKDW" key="Brüggemann-Klein and Wood">Brüggemann-Klein, Anne,
- and Derick Wood.
- <emph>Deterministic Regular Languages</emph>.
- Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik,
- Bericht 38, Oktober 1991.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="Clark" key="Clark">James Clark.
- Comparison of SGML and XML. See
- <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215">http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215</loc>.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="RFC1738" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC1738">
- IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
- <emph>RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)</emph>,
- ed. T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill.
- 1994.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="RFC1808" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC1808">
- IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
- <emph>RFC 1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators</emph>,
- ed. R. Fielding.
- 1995.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="RFC2141" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC2141">
- IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
- <emph>RFC 2141: URN Syntax</emph>,
- ed. R. Moats.
- 1997.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="ISO8879" key="ISO 8879">ISO
- (International Organization for Standardization).
- <emph>ISO 8879:1986(E). Information processing — Text and Office
- Systems — Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).</emph> First
- edition — 1986-10-15. [Geneva]: International Organization for
- Standardization, 1986.
- </bibl>
- <bibl id="ISO10744" key="ISO/IEC 10744">ISO
- (International Organization for Standardization).
- <emph>ISO/IEC 10744-1992 (E). Information technology —
- Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime).
- </emph>
- [Geneva]: International Organization for
- Standardization, 1992.
- <emph>Extended Facilities Annexe.</emph>
- [Geneva]: International Organization for
- Standardization, 1996.
- </bibl>
- </blist>
- </div2>
- </div1>
- <div1 id="CharClasses">
- <head>Character Classes</head>
- <p>Following the characteristics defined in the Unicode standard,
- characters are classed as base characters (among others, these
- contain the alphabetic characters of the Latin alphabet, without
- diacritics), ideographic characters, and combining characters (among
- others, this class contains most diacritics); these classes combine
- to form the class of letters. Digits and extenders are
- also distinguished.
- <scrap lang="ebnf" id="CHARACTERS">
- <head>Characters</head>
- <prodgroup pcw3="3" pcw4="15">
- <prod id="NT-Letter"><lhs>Letter</lhs>
- <rhs><nt def="NT-BaseChar">BaseChar</nt>
- | <nt def="NT-Ideographic">Ideographic</nt></rhs> </prod>
- <prod id="NT-BaseChar"><lhs>BaseChar</lhs>
- <rhs>[#x0041-#x005A]
- | [#x0061-#x007A]
- | [#x00C0-#x00D6]
- | [#x00D8-#x00F6]
- | [#x00F8-#x00FF]
- | [#x0100-#x0131]
- | [#x0134-#x013E]
- | [#x0141-#x0148]
- | [#x014A-#x017E]
- | [#x0180-#x01C3]
- | [#x01CD-#x01F0]
- | [#x01F4-#x01F5]
- | [#x01FA-#x0217]
- | [#x0250-#x02A8]
- | [#x02BB-#x02C1]
- | #x0386
- | [#x0388-#x038A]
- | #x038C
- | [#x038E-#x03A1]
- | [#x03A3-#x03CE]
- | [#x03D0-#x03D6]
- | #x03DA
- | #x03DC
- | #x03DE
- | #x03E0
- | [#x03E2-#x03F3]
- | [#x0401-#x040C]
- | [#x040E-#x044F]
- | [#x0451-#x045C]
- | [#x045E-#x0481]
- | [#x0490-#x04C4]
- | [#x04C7-#x04C8]
- | [#x04CB-#x04CC]
- | [#x04D0-#x04EB]
- | [#x04EE-#x04F5]
- | [#x04F8-#x04F9]
- | [#x0531-#x0556]
- | #x0559
- | [#x0561-#x0586]
- | [#x05D0-#x05EA]
- | [#x05F0-#x05F2]
- | [#x0621-#x063A]
- | [#x0641-#x064A]
- | [#x0671-#x06B7]
- | [#x06BA-#x06BE]
- | [#x06C0-#x06CE]
- | [#x06D0-#x06D3]
- | #x06D5
- | [#x06E5-#x06E6]
- | [#x0905-#x0939]
- | #x093D
- | [#x0958-#x0961]
- | [#x0985-#x098C]
- | [#x098F-#x0990]
- | [#x0993-#x09A8]
- | [#x09AA-#x09B0]
- | #x09B2
- | [#x09B6-#x09B9]
- | [#x09DC-#x09DD]
- | [#x09DF-#x09E1]
- | [#x09F0-#x09F1]
- | [#x0A05-#x0A0A]
- | [#x0A0F-#x0A10]
- | [#x0A13-#x0A28]
- | [#x0A2A-#x0A30]
- | [#x0A32-#x0A33]
- | [#x0A35-#x0A36]
- | [#x0A38-#x0A39]
- | [#x0A59-#x0A5C]
- | #x0A5E
- | [#x0A72-#x0A74]
- | [#x0A85-#x0A8B]
- | #x0A8D
- | [#x0A8F-#x0A91]
- | [#x0A93-#x0AA8]
- | [#x0AAA-#x0AB0]
- | [#x0AB2-#x0AB3]
- | [#x0AB5-#x0AB9]
- | #x0ABD
- | #x0AE0
- | [#x0B05-#x0B0C]
- | [#x0B0F-#x0B10]
- | [#x0B13-#x0B28]
- | [#x0B2A-#x0B30]
- | [#x0B32-#x0B33]
- | [#x0B36-#x0B39]
- | #x0B3D
- | [#x0B5C-#x0B5D]
- | [#x0B5F-#x0B61]
- | [#x0B85-#x0B8A]
- | [#x0B8E-#x0B90]
- | [#x0B92-#x0B95]
- | [#x0B99-#x0B9A]
- | #x0B9C
- | [#x0B9E-#x0B9F]
- | [#x0BA3-#x0BA4]
- | [#x0BA8-#x0BAA]
- | [#x0BAE-#x0BB5]
- | [#x0BB7-#x0BB9]
- | [#x0C05-#x0C0C]
- | [#x0C0E-#x0C10]
- | [#x0C12-#x0C28]
- | [#x0C2A-#x0C33]
- | [#x0C35-#x0C39]
- | [#x0C60-#x0C61]
- | [#x0C85-#x0C8C]
- | [#x0C8E-#x0C90]
- | [#x0C92-#x0CA8]
- | [#x0CAA-#x0CB3]
- | [#x0CB5-#x0CB9]
- | #x0CDE
- | [#x0CE0-#x0CE1]
- | [#x0D05-#x0D0C]
- | [#x0D0E-#x0D10]
- | [#x0D12-#x0D28]
- | [#x0D2A-#x0D39]
- | [#x0D60-#x0D61]
- | [#x0E01-#x0E2E]
- | #x0E30
- | [#x0E32-#x0E33]
- | [#x0E40-#x0E45]
- | [#x0E81-#x0E82]
- | #x0E84
- | [#x0E87-#x0E88]
- | #x0E8A
- | #x0E8D
- | [#x0E94-#x0E97]
- | [#x0E99-#x0E9F]
- | [#x0EA1-#x0EA3]
- | #x0EA5
- | #x0EA7
- | [#x0EAA-#x0EAB]
- | [#x0EAD-#x0EAE]
- | #x0EB0
- | [#x0EB2-#x0EB3]
- | #x0EBD
- | [#x0EC0-#x0EC4]
- | [#x0F40-#x0F47]
- | [#x0F49-#x0F69]
- | [#x10A0-#x10C5]
- | [#x10D0-#x10F6]
- | #x1100
- | [#x1102-#x1103]
- | [#x1105-#x1107]
- | #x1109
- | [#x110B-#x110C]
- | [#x110E-#x1112]
- | #x113C
- | #x113E
- | #x1140
- | #x114C
- | #x114E
- | #x1150
- | [#x1154-#x1155]
- | #x1159
- | [#x115F-#x1161]
- | #x1163
- | #x1165
- | #x1167
- | #x1169
- | [#x116D-#x116E]
- | [#x1172-#x1173]
- | #x1175
- | #x119E
- | #x11A8
- | #x11AB
- | [#x11AE-#x11AF]
- | [#x11B7-#x11B8]
- | #x11BA
- | [#x11BC-#x11C2]
- | #x11EB
- | #x11F0
- | #x11F9
- | [#x1E00-#x1E9B]
- | [#x1EA0-#x1EF9]
- | [#x1F00-#x1F15]
- | [#x1F18-#x1F1D]
- | [#x1F20-#x1F45]
- | [#x1F48-#x1F4D]
- | [#x1F50-#x1F57]
- | #x1F59
- | #x1F5B
- | #x1F5D
- | [#x1F5F-#x1F7D]
- | [#x1F80-#x1FB4]
- | [#x1FB6-#x1FBC]
- | #x1FBE
- | [#x1FC2-#x1FC4]
- | [#x1FC6-#x1FCC]
- | [#x1FD0-#x1FD3]
- | [#x1FD6-#x1FDB]
- | [#x1FE0-#x1FEC]
- | [#x1FF2-#x1FF4]
- | [#x1FF6-#x1FFC]
- | #x2126
- | [#x212A-#x212B]
- | #x212E
- | [#x2180-#x2182]
- | [#x3041-#x3094]
- | [#x30A1-#x30FA]
- | [#x3105-#x312C]
- | [#xAC00-#xD7A3]
- </rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Ideographic"><lhs>Ideographic</lhs>
- <rhs>[#x4E00-#x9FA5]
- | #x3007
- | [#x3021-#x3029]
- </rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-CombiningChar"><lhs>CombiningChar</lhs>
- <rhs>[#x0300-#x0345]
- | [#x0360-#x0361]
- | [#x0483-#x0486]
- | [#x0591-#x05A1]
- | [#x05A3-#x05B9]
- | [#x05BB-#x05BD]
- | #x05BF
- | [#x05C1-#x05C2]
- | #x05C4
- | [#x064B-#x0652]
- | #x0670
- | [#x06D6-#x06DC]
- | [#x06DD-#x06DF]
- | [#x06E0-#x06E4]
- | [#x06E7-#x06E8]
- | [#x06EA-#x06ED]
- | [#x0901-#x0903]
- | #x093C
- | [#x093E-#x094C]
- | #x094D
- | [#x0951-#x0954]
- | [#x0962-#x0963]
- | [#x0981-#x0983]
- | #x09BC
- | #x09BE
- | #x09BF
- | [#x09C0-#x09C4]
- | [#x09C7-#x09C8]
- | [#x09CB-#x09CD]
- | #x09D7
- | [#x09E2-#x09E3]
- | #x0A02
- | #x0A3C
- | #x0A3E
- | #x0A3F
- | [#x0A40-#x0A42]
- | [#x0A47-#x0A48]
- | [#x0A4B-#x0A4D]
- | [#x0A70-#x0A71]
- | [#x0A81-#x0A83]
- | #x0ABC
- | [#x0ABE-#x0AC5]
- | [#x0AC7-#x0AC9]
- | [#x0ACB-#x0ACD]
- | [#x0B01-#x0B03]
- | #x0B3C
- | [#x0B3E-#x0B43]
- | [#x0B47-#x0B48]
- | [#x0B4B-#x0B4D]
- | [#x0B56-#x0B57]
- | [#x0B82-#x0B83]
- | [#x0BBE-#x0BC2]
- | [#x0BC6-#x0BC8]
- | [#x0BCA-#x0BCD]
- | #x0BD7
- | [#x0C01-#x0C03]
- | [#x0C3E-#x0C44]
- | [#x0C46-#x0C48]
- | [#x0C4A-#x0C4D]
- | [#x0C55-#x0C56]
- | [#x0C82-#x0C83]
- | [#x0CBE-#x0CC4]
- | [#x0CC6-#x0CC8]
- | [#x0CCA-#x0CCD]
- | [#x0CD5-#x0CD6]
- | [#x0D02-#x0D03]
- | [#x0D3E-#x0D43]
- | [#x0D46-#x0D48]
- | [#x0D4A-#x0D4D]
- | #x0D57
- | #x0E31
- | [#x0E34-#x0E3A]
- | [#x0E47-#x0E4E]
- | #x0EB1
- | [#x0EB4-#x0EB9]
- | [#x0EBB-#x0EBC]
- | [#x0EC8-#x0ECD]
- | [#x0F18-#x0F19]
- | #x0F35
- | #x0F37
- | #x0F39
- | #x0F3E
- | #x0F3F
- | [#x0F71-#x0F84]
- | [#x0F86-#x0F8B]
- | [#x0F90-#x0F95]
- | #x0F97
- | [#x0F99-#x0FAD]
- | [#x0FB1-#x0FB7]
- | #x0FB9
- | [#x20D0-#x20DC]
- | #x20E1
- | [#x302A-#x302F]
- | #x3099
- | #x309A
- </rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Digit"><lhs>Digit</lhs>
- <rhs>[#x0030-#x0039]
- | [#x0660-#x0669]
- | [#x06F0-#x06F9]
- | [#x0966-#x096F]
- | [#x09E6-#x09EF]
- | [#x0A66-#x0A6F]
- | [#x0AE6-#x0AEF]
- | [#x0B66-#x0B6F]
- | [#x0BE7-#x0BEF]
- | [#x0C66-#x0C6F]
- | [#x0CE6-#x0CEF]
- | [#x0D66-#x0D6F]
- | [#x0E50-#x0E59]
- | [#x0ED0-#x0ED9]
- | [#x0F20-#x0F29]
- </rhs></prod>
- <prod id="NT-Extender"><lhs>Extender</lhs>
- <rhs>#x00B7
- | #x02D0
- | #x02D1
- | #x0387
- | #x0640
- | #x0E46
- | #x0EC6
- | #x3005
- | [#x3031-#x3035]
- | [#x309D-#x309E]
- | [#x30FC-#x30FE]
- </rhs></prod>
- </prodgroup>
- </scrap>
- </p>
- <p>The character classes defined here can be derived from the
- Unicode character database as follows:
- <ulist>
- <item>
- <p>Name start characters must have one of the categories Ll, Lu,
- Lo, Lt, Nl.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Name characters other than Name-start characters
- must have one of the categories Mc, Me, Mn, Lm, or Nd.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Characters in the compatibility area (i.e. with character code
- greater than #xF900 and less than #xFFFE) are not allowed in XML
- names.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Characters which have a font or compatibility decomposition (i.e. those
- with a "compatibility formatting tag" in field 5 of the database --
- marked by field 5 beginning with a "<") are not allowed.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>The following characters are treated as name-start characters
- rather than name characters, because the property file classifies
- them as Alphabetic: [#x02BB-#x02C1], #x0559, #x06E5, #x06E6.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Characters #x20DD-#x20E0 are excluded (in accordance with
- Unicode, section 5.14).</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Character #x00B7 is classified as an extender, because the
- property list so identifies it.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Character #x0387 is added as a name character, because #x00B7
- is its canonical equivalent.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Characters ':' and '_' are allowed as name-start characters.</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Characters '-' and '.' are allowed as name characters.</p>
- </item>
- </ulist>
- </p>
- </div1>
- <inform-div1 id="sec-xml-and-sgml">
- <head>XML and SGML</head>
-
- <p>XML is designed to be a subset of SGML, in that every
- <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> XML document should also be a
- conformant SGML document.
- For a detailed comparison of the additional restrictions that XML places on
- documents beyond those of SGML, see <bibref ref="Clark"/>.
- </p>
- </inform-div1>
- <inform-div1 id="sec-entexpand">
- <head>Expansion of Entity and Character References</head>
- <p>This appendix contains some examples illustrating the
- sequence of entity- and character-reference recognition and
- expansion, as specified in <specref ref="entproc"/>.</p>
- <p>
- If the DTD contains the declaration
- <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY example "<p>An ampersand (&#38;) may be escaped
- numerically (&#38;#38;) or with a general entity
- (&amp;).</p>" >
- ]]></eg>
- then the XML processor will recognize the character references
- when it parses the entity declaration, and resolve them before
- storing the following string as the
- value of the entity "<code>example</code>":
- <eg><![CDATA[<p>An ampersand (&) may be escaped
- numerically (&#38;) or with a general entity
- (&amp;).</p>
- ]]></eg>
- A reference in the document to "<code>&example;</code>"
- will cause the text to be reparsed, at which time the
- start- and end-tags of the "<code>p</code>" element will be recognized
- and the three references will be recognized and expanded,
- resulting in a "<code>p</code>" element with the following content
- (all data, no delimiters or markup):
- <eg><![CDATA[An ampersand (&) may be escaped
- numerically (&) or with a general entity
- (&).
- ]]></eg>
- </p>
- <p>A more complex example will illustrate the rules and their
- effects fully. In the following example, the line numbers are
- solely for reference.
- <eg><![CDATA[1 <?xml version='1.0'?>
- 2 <!DOCTYPE test [
- 3 <!ELEMENT test (#PCDATA) >
- 4 <!ENTITY % xx '%zz;'>
- 5 <!ENTITY % zz '<!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" >' >
- 6 %xx;
- 7 ]>
- 8 <test>This sample shows a &tricky; method.</test>
- ]]></eg>
- This produces the following:
- <ulist spacing="compact">
- <item><p>in line 4, the reference to character 37 is expanded immediately,
- and the parameter entity "<code>xx</code>" is stored in the symbol
- table with the value "<code>%zz;</code>". Since the replacement text
- is not rescanned, the reference to parameter entity "<code>zz</code>"
- is not recognized. (And it would be an error if it were, since
- "<code>zz</code>" is not yet declared.)</p></item>
- <item><p>in line 5, the character reference "<code>&#60;</code>" is
- expanded immediately and the parameter entity "<code>zz</code>" is
- stored with the replacement text
- "<code><!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" ></code>",
- which is a well-formed entity declaration.</p></item>
- <item><p>in line 6, the reference to "<code>xx</code>" is recognized,
- and the replacement text of "<code>xx</code>" (namely
- "<code>%zz;</code>") is parsed. The reference to "<code>zz</code>"
- is recognized in its turn, and its replacement text
- ("<code><!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" ></code>") is parsed.
- The general entity "<code>tricky</code>" has now been
- declared, with the replacement text "<code>error-prone</code>".</p></item>
- <item><p>
- in line 8, the reference to the general entity "<code>tricky</code>" is
- recognized, and it is expanded, so the full content of the
- "<code>test</code>" element is the self-describing (and ungrammatical) string
- <emph>This sample shows a error-prone method.</emph>
- </p></item>
- </ulist>
- </p>
- </inform-div1>
- <inform-div1 id="determinism">
- <head>Deterministic Content Models</head>
- <p><termref def="dt-compat">For compatibility</termref>, it is
- required
- that content models in element type declarations be deterministic.
- </p>
- <!-- FINAL EDIT: WebSGML allows ambiguity? -->
- <p>SGML
- requires deterministic content models (it calls them
- "unambiguous"); XML processors built using SGML systems may
- flag non-deterministic content models as errors.</p>
- <p>For example, the content model <code>((b, c) | (b, d))</code> is
- non-deterministic, because given an initial <code>b</code> the parser
- cannot know which <code>b</code> in the model is being matched without
- looking ahead to see which element follows the <code>b</code>.
- In this case, the two references to
- <code>b</code> can be collapsed
- into a single reference, making the model read
- <code>(b, (c | d))</code>. An initial <code>b</code> now clearly
- matches only a single name in the content model. The parser doesn't
- need to look ahead to see what follows; either <code>c</code> or
- <code>d</code> would be accepted.</p>
- <p>More formally: a finite state automaton may be constructed from the
- content model using the standard algorithms, e.g. algorithm 3.5
- in section 3.9
- of Aho, Sethi, and Ullman <bibref ref="Aho"/>.
- In many such algorithms, a follow set is constructed for each
- position in the regular expression (i.e., each leaf
- node in the
- syntax tree for the regular expression);
- if any position has a follow set in which
- more than one following position is
- labeled with the same element type name,
- then the content model is in error
- and may be reported as an error.
- </p>
- <p>Algorithms exist which allow many but not all non-deterministic
- content models to be reduced automatically to equivalent deterministic
- models; see Brüggemann-Klein 1991 <bibref ref="ABK"/>.</p>
- </inform-div1>
- <inform-div1 id="sec-guessing">
- <head>Autodetection of Character Encodings</head>
- <p>The XML encoding declaration functions as an internal label on each
- entity, indicating which character encoding is in use. Before an XML
- processor can read the internal label, however, it apparently has to
- know what character encoding is in use—which is what the internal label
- is trying to indicate. In the general case, this is a hopeless
- situation. It is not entirely hopeless in XML, however, because XML
- limits the general case in two ways: each implementation is assumed
- to support only a finite set of character encodings, and the XML
- encoding declaration is restricted in position and content in order to
- make it feasible to autodetect the character encoding in use in each
- entity in normal cases. Also, in many cases other sources of information
- are available in addition to the XML data stream itself.
- Two cases may be distinguished,
- depending on whether the XML entity is presented to the
- processor without, or with, any accompanying
- (external) information. We consider the first case first.
- </p>
- <p>
- Because each XML entity not in UTF-8 or UTF-16 format <emph>must</emph>
- begin with an XML encoding declaration, in which the first characters
- must be '<code><?xml</code>', any conforming processor can detect,
- after two to four octets of input, which of the following cases apply.
- In reading this list, it may help to know that in UCS-4, '<' is
- "<code>#x0000003C</code>" and '?' is "<code>#x0000003F</code>", and the Byte
- Order Mark required of UTF-16 data streams is "<code>#xFEFF</code>".</p>
- <p>
- <ulist>
- <item>
- <p><code>00 00 00 3C</code>: UCS-4, big-endian machine (1234 order)</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>3C 00 00 00</code>: UCS-4, little-endian machine (4321 order)</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>00 00 3C 00</code>: UCS-4, unusual octet order (2143)</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>00 3C 00 00</code>: UCS-4, unusual octet order (3412)</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>FE FF</code>: UTF-16, big-endian</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>FF FE</code>: UTF-16, little-endian</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>00 3C 00 3F</code>: UTF-16, big-endian, no Byte Order Mark
- (and thus, strictly speaking, in error)</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>3C 00 3F 00</code>: UTF-16, little-endian, no Byte Order Mark
- (and thus, strictly speaking, in error)</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>3C 3F 78 6D</code>: UTF-8, ISO 646, ASCII, some part of ISO 8859,
- Shift-JIS, EUC, or any other 7-bit, 8-bit, or mixed-width encoding
- which ensures that the characters of ASCII have their normal positions,
- width,
- and values; the actual encoding declaration must be read to
- detect which of these applies, but since all of these encodings
- use the same bit patterns for the ASCII characters, the encoding
- declaration itself may be read reliably
- </p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p><code>4C 6F A7 94</code>: EBCDIC (in some flavor; the full
- encoding declaration must be read to tell which code page is in
- use)</p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>other: UTF-8 without an encoding declaration, or else
- the data stream is corrupt, fragmentary, or enclosed in
- a wrapper of some kind</p>
- </item>
- </ulist>
- </p>
- <p>
- This level of autodetection is enough to read the XML encoding
- declaration and parse the character-encoding identifier, which is
- still necessary to distinguish the individual members of each family
- of encodings (e.g. to tell UTF-8 from 8859, and the parts of 8859
- from each other, or to distinguish the specific EBCDIC code page in
- use, and so on).
- </p>
- <p>
- Because the contents of the encoding declaration are restricted to
- ASCII characters, a processor can reliably read the entire encoding
- declaration as soon as it has detected which family of encodings is in
- use. Since in practice, all widely used character encodings fall into
- one of the categories above, the XML encoding declaration allows
- reasonably reliable in-band labeling of character encodings, even when
- external sources of information at the operating-system or
- transport-protocol level are unreliable.
- </p>
- <p>
- Once the processor has detected the character encoding in use, it can
- act appropriately, whether by invoking a separate input routine for
- each case, or by calling the proper conversion function on each
- character of input.
- </p>
- <p>
- Like any self-labeling system, the XML encoding declaration will not
- work if any software changes the entity's character set or encoding
- without updating the encoding declaration. Implementors of
- character-encoding routines should be careful to ensure the accuracy
- of the internal and external information used to label the entity.
- </p>
- <p>The second possible case occurs when the XML entity is accompanied
- by encoding information, as in some file systems and some network
- protocols.
- When multiple sources of information are available,
- their relative
- priority and the preferred method of handling conflict should be
- specified as part of the higher-level protocol used to deliver XML.
- Rules for the relative priority of the internal label and the
- MIME-type label in an external header, for example, should be part of the
- RFC document defining the text/xml and application/xml MIME types. In
- the interests of interoperability, however, the following rules
- are recommended.
- <ulist>
- <item><p>If an XML entity is in a file, the Byte-Order Mark
- and encoding-declaration PI are used (if present) to determine the
- character encoding. All other heuristics and sources of information
- are solely for error recovery.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>If an XML entity is delivered with a
- MIME type of text/xml, then the <code>charset</code> parameter
- on the MIME type determines the
- character encoding method; all other heuristics and sources of
- information are solely for error recovery.
- </p></item>
- <item><p>If an XML entity is delivered
- with a
- MIME type of application/xml, then the Byte-Order Mark and
- encoding-declaration PI are used (if present) to determine the
- character encoding. All other heuristics and sources of
- information are solely for error recovery.
- </p></item>
- </ulist>
- These rules apply only in the absence of protocol-level documentation;
- in particular, when the MIME types text/xml and application/xml are
- defined, the recommendations of the relevant RFC will supersede
- these rules.
- </p>
- </inform-div1>
- <inform-div1 id="sec-xml-wg">
- <head>W3C XML Working Group</head>
-
- <p>This specification was prepared and approved for publication by the
- W3C XML Working Group (WG). WG approval of this specification does
- not necessarily imply that all WG members voted for its approval.
- The current and former members of the XML WG are:</p>
-
- <orglist>
- <member><name>Jon Bosak, Sun</name><role>Chair</role></member>
- <member><name>James Clark</name><role>Technical Lead</role></member>
- <member><name>Tim Bray, Textuality and Netscape</name><role>XML Co-editor</role></member>
- <member><name>Jean Paoli, Microsoft</name><role>XML Co-editor</role></member>
- <member><name>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, U. of Ill.</name><role>XML
- Co-editor</role></member>
- <member><name>Dan Connolly, W3C</name><role>W3C Liaison</role></member>
- <member><name>Paula Angerstein, Texcel</name></member>
- <member><name>Steve DeRose, INSO</name></member>
- <member><name>Dave Hollander, HP</name></member>
- <member><name>Eliot Kimber, ISOGEN</name></member>
- <member><name>Eve Maler, ArborText</name></member>
- <member><name>Tom Magliery, NCSA</name></member>
- <member><name>Murray Maloney, Muzmo and Grif</name></member>
- <member><name>Makoto Murata, Fuji Xerox Information Systems</name></member>
- <member><name>Joel Nava, Adobe</name></member>
- <member><name>Conleth O'Connell, Vignette</name></member>
- <member><name>Peter Sharpe, SoftQuad</name></member>
- <member><name>John Tigue, DataChannel</name></member>
- </orglist>
- </inform-div1>
- </back>
- </spec>
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