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1.1 ! misho 1: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" standalone="no"?> ! 2: <!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "dtds/spec.dtd" [ ! 3: <!-- LAST TOUCHED BY: Tim Bray, 8 February 1997 --><!-- The words 'FINAL EDIT' in comments mark places where changes ! 4: need to be made after approval of the document by the ERB, before ! 5: publication. --><!ENTITY XML.version "1.0"> ! 6: <!ENTITY doc.date "10 February 1998"> ! 7: <!ENTITY iso6.doc.date "19980210"> ! 8: <!ENTITY w3c.doc.date "02-Feb-1998"> ! 9: <!ENTITY draft.day "10"> ! 10: <!ENTITY draft.month "February"> ! 11: <!ENTITY draft.year "1998"> ! 12: <!ENTITY WebSGML "WebSGML Adaptations Annex to ISO 8879"> ! 13: <!ENTITY lt "<"> ! 14: <!ENTITY gt ">"> ! 15: <!ENTITY xmlpio "'<?xml'"> ! 16: <!ENTITY pic "'?>'"> ! 17: <!ENTITY br "\n"> ! 18: <!ENTITY cellback "#c0d9c0"> ! 19: <!ENTITY mdash "--"> ! 20: <!-- —, but nsgmls doesn't grok hex --><!ENTITY com "--"> ! 21: <!ENTITY como "--"> ! 22: <!ENTITY comc "--"> ! 23: <!ENTITY hcro "&#x"> ! 24: <!-- <!ENTITY nbsp " "> --><!ENTITY nbsp " "> ! 25: <!ENTITY magicents "<code>amp</code>, ! 26: <code>lt</code>, ! 27: <code>gt</code>, ! 28: <code>apos</code>, ! 29: <code>quot</code>"> ! 30: <!-- audience and distribution status: for use at publication time --><!ENTITY doc.audience "public review and discussion"> ! 31: <!ENTITY doc.distribution "may be distributed freely, as long as ! 32: all text and legal notices remain intact"> ! 33: ]> ! 34: <!-- for Panorama *--> ! 35: <?VERBATIM "eg" ?> ! 36: <spec> ! 37: <header> ! 38: <title>Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0</title> ! 39: <version/> ! 40: <w3c-designation>REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;</w3c-designation> ! 41: <w3c-doctype>W3C Recommendation</w3c-doctype> ! 42: <pubdate><day>&draft.day;</day><month>&draft.month;</month><year>&draft.year;</year></pubdate> ! 43: ! 44: <publoc> ! 45: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;"> ! 46: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;</loc> ! 47: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.xml"> ! 48: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.xml</loc> ! 49: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.html"> ! 50: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.html</loc> ! 51: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.pdf"> ! 52: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.pdf</loc> ! 53: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.ps"> ! 54: http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.ps</loc> ! 55: </publoc> ! 56: <latestloc> ! 57: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml"> ! 58: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</loc> ! 59: </latestloc> ! 60: <prevlocs> ! 61: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208"> ! 62: http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208</loc> ! 63: <!-- ! 64: <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114'> ! 65: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114</loc> ! 66: <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331'> ! 67: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331</loc> ! 68: <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970630'> ! 69: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970630</loc> ! 70: <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-970807'> ! 71: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-970807</loc> ! 72: <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-971117'> ! 73: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-971117</loc>--> ! 74: </prevlocs> ! 75: <authlist> ! 76: <author><name>Tim Bray</name> ! 77: <affiliation>Textuality and Netscape</affiliation> ! 78: <email href="mailto:tbray@textuality.com">tbray@textuality.com</email></author> ! 79: <author><name>Jean Paoli</name> ! 80: <affiliation>Microsoft</affiliation> ! 81: <email href="mailto:jeanpa@microsoft.com">jeanpa@microsoft.com</email></author> ! 82: <author><name>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen</name> ! 83: <affiliation>University of Illinois at Chicago</affiliation> ! 84: <email href="mailto:cmsmcq@uic.edu">cmsmcq@uic.edu</email></author> ! 85: </authlist> ! 86: <abstract> ! 87: <p>The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of ! 88: SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to ! 89: enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web ! 90: in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for ! 91: ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and ! 92: HTML.</p> ! 93: </abstract> ! 94: <status> ! 95: <p>This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and ! 96: other interested parties and has been endorsed by the ! 97: Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable ! 98: document and may be used as reference material or cited ! 99: as a normative reference from another document. W3C's ! 100: role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention ! 101: to the specification and to promote its widespread ! 102: deployment. This enhances the functionality and ! 103: interoperability of the Web.</p> ! 104: <p> ! 105: This document specifies a syntax created by subsetting an existing, ! 106: widely used international text processing standard (Standard ! 107: Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986(E) as amended and ! 108: corrected) for use on the World Wide Web. It is a product of the W3C ! 109: 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 ! 110: current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found ! 111: at <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR">http://www.w3.org/TR</loc>. ! 112: </p> ! 113: <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"/>. ! 114: </p> ! 115: <p>The list of known errors in this specification is ! 116: available at ! 117: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata">http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata</loc>.</p> ! 118: <p>Please report errors in this document to ! 119: <loc href="mailto:xml-editor@w3.org">xml-editor@w3.org</loc>. ! 120: </p> ! 121: </status> ! 122: ! 123: ! 124: <pubstmt> ! 125: <p>Chicago, Vancouver, Mountain View, et al.: ! 126: World-Wide Web Consortium, XML Working Group, 1996, 1997.</p> ! 127: </pubstmt> ! 128: <sourcedesc> ! 129: <p>Created in electronic form.</p> ! 130: </sourcedesc> ! 131: <langusage> ! 132: <language id="EN">English</language> ! 133: <language id="ebnf">Extended Backus-Naur Form (formal grammar)</language> ! 134: </langusage> ! 135: <revisiondesc> ! 136: <slist> ! 137: <sitem>1997-12-03 : CMSMcQ : yet further changes</sitem> ! 138: <sitem>1997-12-02 : TB : further changes (see TB to XML WG, ! 139: 2 December 1997)</sitem> ! 140: <sitem>1997-12-02 : CMSMcQ : deal with as many corrections and ! 141: comments from the proofreaders as possible: ! 142: entify hard-coded document date in pubdate element, ! 143: change expansion of entity WebSGML, ! 144: update status description as per Dan Connolly (am not sure ! 145: about refernece to Berners-Lee et al.), ! 146: add 'The' to abstract as per WG decision, ! 147: move Relationship to Existing Standards to back matter and ! 148: combine with References, ! 149: re-order back matter so normative appendices come first, ! 150: re-tag back matter so informative appendices are tagged informdiv1, ! 151: remove XXX XXX from list of 'normative' specs in prose, ! 152: move some references from Other References to Normative References, ! 153: add RFC 1738, 1808, and 2141 to Other References (they are not ! 154: normative since we do not require the processor to enforce any ! 155: rules based on them), ! 156: add reference to 'Fielding draft' (Berners-Lee et al.), ! 157: move notation section to end of body, ! 158: drop URIchar non-terminal and use SkipLit instead, ! 159: lose stray reference to defunct nonterminal 'markupdecls', ! 160: move reference to Aho et al. into appendix (Tim's right), ! 161: add prose note saying that hash marks and fragment identifiers are ! 162: NOT part of the URI formally speaking, and are NOT legal in ! 163: system identifiers (processor 'may' signal an error). ! 164: Work through: ! 165: Tim Bray reacting to James Clark, ! 166: Tim Bray on his own, ! 167: Eve Maler, ! 168: ! 169: NOT DONE YET: ! 170: change binary / text to unparsed / parsed. ! 171: handle James's suggestion about < in attriubte values ! 172: uppercase hex characters, ! 173: namechar list, ! 174: </sitem> ! 175: <sitem>1997-12-01 : JB : add some column-width parameters</sitem> ! 176: <sitem>1997-12-01 : CMSMcQ : begin round of changes to incorporate ! 177: recent WG decisions and other corrections: ! 178: binding sources of character encoding info (27 Aug / 3 Sept), ! 179: correct wording of Faust quotation (restore dropped line), ! 180: drop SDD from EncodingDecl, ! 181: change text at version number 1.0, ! 182: drop misleading (wrong!) sentence about ignorables and extenders, ! 183: modify definition of PCData to make bar on msc grammatical, ! 184: change grammar's handling of internal subset (drop non-terminal markupdecls), ! 185: change definition of includeSect to allow conditional sections, ! 186: add integral-declaration constraint on internal subset, ! 187: drop misleading / dangerous sentence about relationship of ! 188: entities with system storage objects, ! 189: change table body tag to htbody as per EM change to DTD, ! 190: add rule about space normalization in public identifiers, ! 191: add description of how to generate our name-space rules from ! 192: Unicode character database (needs further work!). ! 193: </sitem> ! 194: <sitem>1997-10-08 : TB : Removed %-constructs again, new rules ! 195: for PE appearance.</sitem> ! 196: <sitem>1997-10-01 : TB : Case-sensitive markup; cleaned up ! 197: element-type defs, lotsa little edits for style</sitem> ! 198: <sitem>1997-09-25 : TB : Change to elm's new DTD, with ! 199: substantial detail cleanup as a side-effect</sitem> ! 200: <sitem>1997-07-24 : CMSMcQ : correct error (lost *) in definition ! 201: of ignoreSectContents (thanks to Makoto Murata)</sitem> ! 202: <sitem>Allow all empty elements to have end-tags, consistent with ! 203: SGML TC (as per JJC).</sitem> ! 204: <sitem>1997-07-23 : CMSMcQ : pre-emptive strike on pending corrections: ! 205: introduce the term 'empty-element tag', note that all empty elements ! 206: may use it, and elements declared EMPTY must use it. ! 207: Add WFC requiring encoding decl to come first in an entity. ! 208: Redefine notations to point to PIs as well as binary entities. ! 209: Change autodetection table by removing bytes 3 and 4 from ! 210: examples with Byte Order Mark. ! 211: Add content model as a term and clarify that it applies to both ! 212: mixed and element content. ! 213: </sitem> ! 214: <sitem>1997-06-30 : CMSMcQ : change date, some cosmetic changes, ! 215: changes to productions for choice, seq, Mixed, NotationType, ! 216: Enumeration. Follow James Clark's suggestion and prohibit ! 217: conditional sections in internal subset. TO DO: simplify ! 218: production for ignored sections as a result, since we don't ! 219: need to worry about parsers which don't expand PErefs finding ! 220: a conditional section.</sitem> ! 221: <sitem>1997-06-29 : TB : various edits</sitem> ! 222: <sitem>1997-06-29 : CMSMcQ : further changes: ! 223: Suppress old FINAL EDIT comments and some dead material. ! 224: Revise occurrences of % in grammar to exploit Henry Thompson's pun, ! 225: especially markupdecl and attdef. ! 226: Remove RMD requirement relating to element content (?). ! 227: </sitem> ! 228: <sitem>1997-06-28 : CMSMcQ : Various changes for 1 July draft: ! 229: Add text for draconian error handling (introduce ! 230: the term Fatal Error). ! 231: RE deleta est (changing wording from ! 232: original announcement to restrict the requirement to validating ! 233: parsers). ! 234: Tag definition of validating processor and link to it. ! 235: Add colon as name character. ! 236: Change def of %operator. ! 237: Change standard definitions of lt, gt, amp. ! 238: Strip leading zeros from #x00nn forms.</sitem> ! 239: <sitem>1997-04-02 : CMSMcQ : final corrections of editorial errors ! 240: found in last night's proofreading. Reverse course once more on ! 241: well-formed: Webster's Second hyphenates it, and that's enough ! 242: for me.</sitem> ! 243: <sitem>1997-04-01 : CMSMcQ : corrections from JJC, EM, HT, and self</sitem> ! 244: <sitem>1997-03-31 : Tim Bray : many changes</sitem> ! 245: <sitem>1997-03-29 : CMSMcQ : some Henry Thompson (on entity handling), ! 246: some Charles Goldfarb, some ERB decisions (PE handling in miscellaneous ! 247: declarations. Changed Ident element to accept def attribute. ! 248: Allow normalization of Unicode characters. move def of systemliteral ! 249: into section on literals.</sitem> ! 250: <sitem>1997-03-28 : CMSMcQ : make as many corrections as possible, from ! 251: Terry Allen, Norbert Mikula, James Clark, Jon Bosak, Henry Thompson, ! 252: Paul Grosso, and self. Among other things: give in on "well formed" ! 253: (Terry is right), tentatively rename QuotedCData as AttValue ! 254: and Literal as EntityValue to be more informative, since attribute ! 255: values are the <emph>only</emph> place QuotedCData was used, and ! 256: vice versa for entity text and Literal. (I'd call it Entity Text, ! 257: but 8879 uses that name for both internal and external entities.)</sitem> ! 258: <sitem>1997-03-26 : CMSMcQ : resynch the two forks of this draft, reapply ! 259: my changes dated 03-20 and 03-21. Normalize old 'may not' to 'must not' ! 260: except in the one case where it meant 'may or may not'.</sitem> ! 261: <sitem>1997-03-21 : TB : massive changes on plane flight from Chicago ! 262: to Vancouver</sitem> ! 263: <sitem>1997-03-21 : CMSMcQ : correct as many reported errors as possible. ! 264: </sitem> ! 265: <sitem>1997-03-20 : CMSMcQ : correct typos listed in CMSMcQ hand copy of spec.</sitem> ! 266: <sitem>1997-03-20 : CMSMcQ : cosmetic changes preparatory to revision for ! 267: WWW conference April 1997: restore some of the internal entity ! 268: references (e.g. to docdate, etc.), change character xA0 to &nbsp; ! 269: and define nbsp as &#160;, and refill a lot of paragraphs for ! 270: legibility.</sitem> ! 271: <sitem>1996-11-12 : CMSMcQ : revise using Tim's edits: ! 272: Add list type of NUMBERED and change most lists either to ! 273: BULLETS or to NUMBERED. ! 274: Suppress QuotedNames, Names (not used). ! 275: Correct trivial-grammar doc type decl. ! 276: Rename 'marked section' as 'CDATA section' passim. ! 277: Also edits from James Clark: ! 278: Define the set of characters from which [^abc] subtracts. ! 279: Charref should use just [0-9] not Digit. ! 280: Location info needs cleaner treatment: remove? (ERB ! 281: question). ! 282: One example of a PI has wrong pic. ! 283: Clarify discussion of encoding names. ! 284: Encoding failure should lead to unspecified results; don't ! 285: prescribe error recovery. ! 286: Don't require exposure of entity boundaries. ! 287: Ignore white space in element content. ! 288: Reserve entity names of the form u-NNNN. ! 289: Clarify relative URLs. ! 290: And some of my own: ! 291: Correct productions for content model: model cannot ! 292: consist of a name, so "elements ::= cp" is no good. ! 293: </sitem> ! 294: <sitem>1996-11-11 : CMSMcQ : revise for style. ! 295: Add new rhs to entity declaration, for parameter entities.</sitem> ! 296: <sitem>1996-11-10 : CMSMcQ : revise for style. ! 297: Fix / complete section on names, characters. ! 298: Add sections on parameter entities, conditional sections. ! 299: Still to do: Add compatibility note on deterministic content models. ! 300: Finish stylistic revision.</sitem> ! 301: <sitem>1996-10-31 : TB : Add Entity Handling section</sitem> ! 302: <sitem>1996-10-30 : TB : Clean up term & termdef. Slip in ! 303: ERB decision re EMPTY.</sitem> ! 304: <sitem>1996-10-28 : TB : Change DTD. Implement some of Michael's ! 305: suggestions. Change comments back to //. Introduce language for ! 306: XML namespace reservation. Add section on white-space handling. ! 307: Lots more cleanup.</sitem> ! 308: <sitem>1996-10-24 : CMSMcQ : quick tweaks, implement some ERB ! 309: decisions. Characters are not integers. Comments are /* */ not //. ! 310: Add bibliographic refs to 10646, HyTime, Unicode. ! 311: Rename old Cdata as MsData since it's <emph>only</emph> seen ! 312: in marked sections. Call them attribute-value pairs not ! 313: name-value pairs, except once. Internal subset is optional, needs ! 314: '?'. Implied attributes should be signaled to the app, not ! 315: have values supplied by processor.</sitem> ! 316: <sitem>1996-10-16 : TB : track down & excise all DSD references; ! 317: introduce some EBNF for entity declarations.</sitem> ! 318: <sitem>1996-10-?? : TB : consistency check, fix up scraps so ! 319: they all parse, get formatter working, correct a few productions.</sitem> ! 320: <sitem>1996-10-10/11 : CMSMcQ : various maintenance, stylistic, and ! 321: organizational changes: ! 322: Replace a few literals with xmlpio and ! 323: pic entities, to make them consistent and ensure we can change pic ! 324: reliably when the ERB votes. ! 325: Drop paragraph on recognizers from notation section. ! 326: Add match, exact match to terminology. ! 327: Move old 2.2 XML Processors and Apps into intro. ! 328: Mention comments, PIs, and marked sections in discussion of ! 329: delimiter escaping. ! 330: Streamline discussion of doctype decl syntax. ! 331: Drop old section of 'PI syntax' for doctype decl, and add ! 332: section on partial-DTD summary PIs to end of Logical Structures ! 333: section. ! 334: Revise DSD syntax section to use Tim's subset-in-a-PI ! 335: mechanism.</sitem> ! 336: <sitem>1996-10-10 : TB : eliminate name recognizers (and more?)</sitem> ! 337: <sitem>1996-10-09 : CMSMcQ : revise for style, consistency through 2.3 ! 338: (Characters)</sitem> ! 339: <sitem>1996-10-09 : CMSMcQ : re-unite everything for convenience, ! 340: at least temporarily, and revise quickly</sitem> ! 341: <sitem>1996-10-08 : TB : first major homogenization pass</sitem> ! 342: <sitem>1996-10-08 : TB : turn "current" attribute on div type into ! 343: CDATA</sitem> ! 344: <sitem>1996-10-02 : TB : remould into skeleton + entities</sitem> ! 345: <sitem>1996-09-30 : CMSMcQ : add a few more sections prior to exchange ! 346: with Tim.</sitem> ! 347: <sitem>1996-09-20 : CMSMcQ : finish transcribing notes.</sitem> ! 348: <sitem>1996-09-19 : CMSMcQ : begin transcribing notes for draft.</sitem> ! 349: <sitem>1996-09-13 : CMSMcQ : made outline from notes of 09-06, ! 350: do some housekeeping</sitem> ! 351: </slist> ! 352: </revisiondesc> ! 353: </header> ! 354: <body> ! 355: <div1 id="sec-intro"> ! 356: <head>Introduction</head> ! 357: <p>Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes a class of ! 358: data objects called <termref def="dt-xml-doc">XML documents</termref> and ! 359: partially describes the behavior of ! 360: computer programs which process them. XML is an application profile or ! 361: restricted form of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup ! 362: Language <bibref ref="ISO8879"/>. ! 363: By construction, XML documents ! 364: are conforming SGML documents. ! 365: </p> ! 366: <p>XML documents are made up of storage units called <termref def="dt-entity">entities</termref>, which contain either parsed ! 367: or unparsed data. ! 368: Parsed data is made up of <termref def="dt-character">characters</termref>, ! 369: some ! 370: of which form <termref def="dt-chardata">character data</termref>, ! 371: and some of which form <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>. ! 372: Markup encodes a description of the document's storage layout and ! 373: logical structure. XML provides a mechanism to impose constraints on ! 374: the storage layout and logical structure.</p> ! 375: <p><termdef id="dt-xml-proc" term="XML Processor">A software module ! 376: called an <term>XML processor</term> is used to read XML documents ! 377: and provide access to their content and structure.</termdef> <termdef id="dt-app" term="Application">It is assumed that an XML processor is ! 378: doing its work on behalf of another module, called the ! 379: <term>application</term>.</termdef> This specification describes the ! 380: required behavior of an XML processor in terms of how it must read XML ! 381: data and the information it must provide to the application.</p> ! 382: ! 383: <div2 id="sec-origin-goals"> ! 384: <head>Origin and Goals</head> ! 385: <p>XML was developed by an XML Working Group (originally known as the ! 386: SGML Editorial Review Board) formed under the auspices of the World ! 387: Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1996. ! 388: It was chaired by Jon Bosak of Sun ! 389: Microsystems with the active participation of an XML Special ! 390: Interest Group (previously known as the SGML Working Group) also ! 391: organized by the W3C. The membership of the XML Working Group is given ! 392: in an appendix. Dan Connolly served as the WG's contact with the W3C. ! 393: </p> ! 394: <p>The design goals for XML are:<olist> ! 395: <item><p>XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the ! 396: Internet.</p></item> ! 397: <item><p>XML shall support a wide variety of applications.</p></item> ! 398: <item><p>XML shall be compatible with SGML.</p></item> ! 399: <item><p>It shall be easy to write programs which process XML ! 400: documents.</p></item> ! 401: <item><p>The number of optional features in XML is to be kept to the ! 402: absolute minimum, ideally zero.</p></item> ! 403: <item><p>XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably ! 404: clear.</p></item> ! 405: <item><p>The XML design should be prepared quickly.</p></item> ! 406: <item><p>The design of XML shall be formal and concise.</p></item> ! 407: <item><p>XML documents shall be easy to create.</p></item> ! 408: <item><p>Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance.</p></item></olist> ! 409: </p> ! 410: <p>This specification, ! 411: together with associated standards ! 412: (Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 for characters, ! 413: Internet RFC 1766 for language identification tags, ! 414: ISO 639 for language name codes, and ! 415: ISO 3166 for country name codes), ! 416: provides all the information necessary to understand ! 417: XML Version &XML.version; ! 418: and construct computer programs to process it.</p> ! 419: <p>This version of the XML specification ! 420: <!-- is for &doc.audience;.--> ! 421: &doc.distribution;.</p> ! 422: ! 423: </div2> ! 424: ! 425: ! 426: ! 427: ! 428: <div2 id="sec-terminology"> ! 429: <head>Terminology</head> ! 430: ! 431: <p>The terminology used to describe XML documents is defined in the body of ! 432: this specification. ! 433: The terms defined in the following list are used in building those ! 434: definitions and in describing the actions of an XML processor: ! 435: <glist> ! 436: <gitem> ! 437: <label>may</label> ! 438: <def><p><termdef id="dt-may" term="May">Conforming documents and XML ! 439: processors are permitted to but need not behave as ! 440: described.</termdef></p></def> ! 441: </gitem> ! 442: <gitem> ! 443: <label>must</label> ! 444: <def><p>Conforming documents and XML processors ! 445: are required to behave as described; otherwise they are in error. ! 446: <!-- do NOT change this! this is what defines a violation of ! 447: a 'must' clause as 'an error'. -MSM --> ! 448: </p></def> ! 449: </gitem> ! 450: <gitem> ! 451: <label>error</label> ! 452: <def><p><termdef id="dt-error" term="Error">A violation of the rules of this ! 453: specification; results are ! 454: undefined. Conforming software may detect and report an error and may ! 455: recover from it.</termdef></p></def> ! 456: </gitem> ! 457: <gitem> ! 458: <label>fatal error</label> ! 459: <def><p><termdef id="dt-fatal" term="Fatal Error">An error ! 460: which a conforming <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref> ! 461: must detect and report to the application. ! 462: After encountering a fatal error, the ! 463: processor may continue ! 464: processing the data to search for further errors and may report such ! 465: errors to the application. In order to support correction of errors, ! 466: the processor may make unprocessed data from the document (with ! 467: intermingled character data and markup) available to the application. ! 468: Once a fatal error is detected, however, the processor must not ! 469: continue normal processing (i.e., it must not ! 470: continue to pass character data and information about the document's ! 471: logical structure to the application in the normal way). ! 472: </termdef></p></def> ! 473: </gitem> ! 474: <gitem> ! 475: <label>at user option</label> ! 476: <def><p>Conforming software may or must (depending on the modal verb in the ! 477: sentence) behave as described; if it does, it must ! 478: provide users a means to enable or disable the behavior ! 479: described.</p></def> ! 480: </gitem> ! 481: <gitem> ! 482: <label>validity constraint</label> ! 483: <def><p>A rule which applies to all ! 484: <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> XML documents. ! 485: Violations of validity constraints are errors; they must, at user option, ! 486: be reported by ! 487: <termref def="dt-validating">validating XML processors</termref>.</p></def> ! 488: </gitem> ! 489: <gitem> ! 490: <label>well-formedness constraint</label> ! 491: <def><p>A rule which applies to all <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> XML documents. ! 492: Violations of well-formedness constraints are ! 493: <termref def="dt-fatal">fatal errors</termref>.</p></def> ! 494: </gitem> ! 495: ! 496: <gitem> ! 497: <label>match</label> ! 498: <def><p><termdef id="dt-match" term="match">(Of strings or names:) ! 499: Two strings or names being compared must be identical. ! 500: Characters with multiple possible representations in ISO/IEC 10646 (e.g. ! 501: characters with ! 502: both precomposed and base+diacritic forms) match only if they have the ! 503: same representation in both strings. ! 504: At user option, processors may normalize such characters to ! 505: some canonical form. ! 506: No case folding is performed. ! 507: (Of strings and rules in the grammar:) ! 508: A string matches a grammatical production if it belongs to the ! 509: language generated by that production. ! 510: (Of content and content models:) ! 511: An element matches its declaration when it conforms ! 512: in the fashion described in the constraint ! 513: <specref ref="elementvalid"/>. ! 514: </termdef> ! 515: </p></def> ! 516: </gitem> ! 517: <gitem> ! 518: <label>for compatibility</label> ! 519: <def><p><termdef id="dt-compat" term="For Compatibility">A feature of ! 520: XML included solely to ensure that XML remains compatible with SGML. ! 521: </termdef></p></def> ! 522: </gitem> ! 523: <gitem> ! 524: <label>for interoperability</label> ! 525: <def><p><termdef id="dt-interop" term="For interoperability">A ! 526: non-binding recommendation included to increase the chances that XML ! 527: documents can be processed by the existing installed base of SGML ! 528: processors which predate the ! 529: &WebSGML;.</termdef></p></def> ! 530: </gitem> ! 531: </glist> ! 532: </p> ! 533: </div2> ! 534: ! 535: ! 536: </div1> ! 537: <!-- &Docs; --> ! 538: ! 539: <div1 id="sec-documents"> ! 540: <head>Documents</head> ! 541: ! 542: <p><termdef id="dt-xml-doc" term="XML Document"> ! 543: A data object is an ! 544: <term>XML document</term> if it is ! 545: <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref>, as ! 546: defined in this specification. ! 547: A well-formed XML document may in addition be ! 548: <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> if it meets certain further ! 549: constraints.</termdef></p> ! 550: ! 551: <p>Each XML document has both a logical and a physical structure. ! 552: 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 ! 553: inclusion in the document. A document begins in a "root" or <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>. ! 554: Logically, the document is composed of declarations, elements, ! 555: comments, ! 556: character references, and ! 557: processing ! 558: instructions, all of which are indicated in the document by explicit ! 559: markup. ! 560: The logical and physical structures must nest properly, as described ! 561: in <specref ref="wf-entities"/>. ! 562: </p> ! 563: ! 564: <div2 id="sec-well-formed"> ! 565: <head>Well-Formed XML Documents</head> ! 566: ! 567: <p><termdef id="dt-wellformed" term="Well-Formed"> ! 568: A textual object is ! 569: a well-formed XML document if:</termdef> ! 570: <olist> ! 571: <item><p>Taken as a whole, it ! 572: matches the production labeled <nt def="NT-document">document</nt>.</p></item> ! 573: <item><p>It ! 574: meets all the well-formedness constraints given in this specification.</p> ! 575: </item> ! 576: <item><p>Each of the <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed entities</termref> ! 577: which is referenced directly or indirectly within the document is ! 578: <titleref href="wf-entities">well-formed</titleref>.</p></item> ! 579: </olist></p> ! 580: <p> ! 581: <scrap lang="ebnf" id="document"> ! 582: <head>Document</head> ! 583: <prod id="NT-document"><lhs>document</lhs> ! 584: <rhs><nt def="NT-prolog">prolog</nt> ! 585: <nt def="NT-element">element</nt> ! 586: <nt def="NT-Misc">Misc</nt>*</rhs></prod> ! 587: </scrap> ! 588: </p> ! 589: <p>Matching the <nt def="NT-document">document</nt> production ! 590: implies that: ! 591: <olist> ! 592: <item><p>It contains one or more ! 593: <termref def="dt-element">elements</termref>.</p> ! 594: </item> ! 595: <!--* N.B. some readers (notably JC) find the following ! 596: paragraph awkward and redundant. I agree it's logically redundant: ! 597: it *says* it is summarizing the logical implications of ! 598: matching the grammar, and that means by definition it's ! 599: logically redundant. I don't think it's rhetorically ! 600: redundant or unnecessary, though, so I'm keeping it. It ! 601: could however use some recasting when the editors are feeling ! 602: stronger. -MSM *--> ! 603: <item><p><termdef id="dt-root" term="Root Element">There is exactly ! 604: one element, called the <term>root</term>, or document element, no ! 605: part of which appears in the <termref def="dt-content">content</termref> of any other element.</termdef> ! 606: For all other elements, if the start-tag is in the content of another ! 607: element, the end-tag is in the content of the same element. More ! 608: simply stated, the elements, delimited by start- and end-tags, nest ! 609: properly within each other. ! 610: </p></item> ! 611: </olist> ! 612: </p> ! 613: <p><termdef id="dt-parentchild" term="Parent/Child">As a consequence ! 614: of this, ! 615: for each non-root element ! 616: <code>C</code> in the document, there is one other element <code>P</code> ! 617: in the document such that ! 618: <code>C</code> is in the content of <code>P</code>, but is not in ! 619: the content of any other element that is in the content of ! 620: <code>P</code>. ! 621: <code>P</code> is referred to as the ! 622: <term>parent</term> of <code>C</code>, and <code>C</code> as a ! 623: <term>child</term> of <code>P</code>.</termdef></p></div2> ! 624: ! 625: <div2 id="charsets"> ! 626: <head>Characters</head> ! 627: ! 628: <p><termdef id="dt-text" term="Text">A parsed entity contains ! 629: <term>text</term>, a sequence of ! 630: <termref def="dt-character">characters</termref>, ! 631: which may represent markup or character data.</termdef> ! 632: <termdef id="dt-character" term="Character">A <term>character</term> ! 633: is an atomic unit of text as specified by ! 634: ISO/IEC 10646 <bibref ref="ISO10646"/>. ! 635: Legal characters are tab, carriage return, line feed, and the legal ! 636: graphic characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. ! 637: The use of "compatibility characters", as defined in section 6.8 ! 638: of <bibref ref="Unicode"/>, is discouraged. ! 639: </termdef> ! 640: <scrap lang="ebnf" id="char32"> ! 641: <head>Character Range</head> ! 642: <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="11"> ! 643: <prod id="NT-Char"><lhs>Char</lhs> ! 644: <rhs>#x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] ! 645: | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]</rhs> ! 646: <com>any Unicode character, excluding the ! 647: surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF.</com> </prod> ! 648: </prodgroup> ! 649: </scrap> ! 650: </p> ! 651: ! 652: <p>The mechanism for encoding character code points into bit patterns may ! 653: vary from entity to entity. All XML processors must accept the UTF-8 ! 654: and UTF-16 encodings of 10646; the mechanisms for signaling which of ! 655: the two is in use, or for bringing other encodings into play, are ! 656: discussed later, in <specref ref="charencoding"/>. ! 657: </p> ! 658: <!-- ! 659: <p>Regardless of the specific encoding used, any character in the ISO/IEC ! 660: 10646 character set may be referred to by the decimal or hexadecimal ! 661: equivalent of its ! 662: UCS-4 code value. ! 663: </p>--> ! 664: </div2> ! 665: ! 666: <div2 id="sec-common-syn"> ! 667: <head>Common Syntactic Constructs</head> ! 668: ! 669: <p>This section defines some symbols used widely in the grammar.</p> ! 670: <p><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> (white space) consists of one or more space (#x20) ! 671: characters, carriage returns, line feeds, or tabs. ! 672: ! 673: <scrap lang="ebnf" id="white"> ! 674: <head>White Space</head> ! 675: <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="11"> ! 676: <prod id="NT-S"><lhs>S</lhs> ! 677: <rhs>(#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+</rhs> ! 678: </prod> ! 679: </prodgroup> ! 680: </scrap></p> ! 681: <p>Characters are classified for convenience as letters, digits, or other ! 682: characters. Letters consist of an alphabetic or syllabic ! 683: base character possibly ! 684: followed by one or more combining characters, or of an ideographic ! 685: character. ! 686: Full definitions of the specific characters in each class ! 687: are given in <specref ref="CharClasses"/>.</p> ! 688: <p><termdef id="dt-name" term="Name">A <term>Name</term> is a token ! 689: beginning with a letter or one of a few punctuation characters, and continuing ! 690: with letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, colons, or full stops, together ! 691: known as name characters.</termdef> ! 692: Names beginning with the string "<code>xml</code>", or any string ! 693: which would match <code>(('X'|'x') ('M'|'m') ('L'|'l'))</code>, are ! 694: reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this ! 695: specification. ! 696: </p> ! 697: <note> ! 698: <p>The colon character within XML names is reserved for experimentation with ! 699: name spaces. ! 700: Its meaning is expected to be ! 701: standardized at some future point, at which point those documents ! 702: using the colon for experimental purposes may need to be updated. ! 703: (There is no guarantee that any name-space mechanism ! 704: adopted for XML will in fact use the colon as a name-space delimiter.) ! 705: In practice, this means that authors should not use the colon in XML ! 706: names except as part of name-space experiments, but that XML processors ! 707: should accept the colon as a name character.</p> ! 708: </note> ! 709: <p>An ! 710: <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> (name token) is any mixture of ! 711: name characters. ! 712: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 713: <head>Names and Tokens</head> ! 714: <prod id="NT-NameChar"><lhs>NameChar</lhs> ! 715: <rhs><nt def="NT-Letter">Letter</nt> ! 716: | <nt def="NT-Digit">Digit</nt> ! 717: | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':' ! 718: | <nt def="NT-CombiningChar">CombiningChar</nt> ! 719: | <nt def="NT-Extender">Extender</nt></rhs> ! 720: </prod> ! 721: <prod id="NT-Name"><lhs>Name</lhs> ! 722: <rhs>(<nt def="NT-Letter">Letter</nt> | '_' | ':') ! 723: (<nt def="NT-NameChar">NameChar</nt>)*</rhs></prod> ! 724: <prod id="NT-Names"><lhs>Names</lhs> ! 725: <rhs><nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 726: (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>)*</rhs></prod> ! 727: <prod id="NT-Nmtoken"><lhs>Nmtoken</lhs> ! 728: <rhs>(<nt def="NT-NameChar">NameChar</nt>)+</rhs></prod> ! 729: <prod id="NT-Nmtokens"><lhs>Nmtokens</lhs> ! 730: <rhs><nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt>)*</rhs></prod> ! 731: </scrap> ! 732: </p> ! 733: <p>Literal data is any quoted string not containing ! 734: the quotation mark used as a delimiter for that string. ! 735: Literals are used ! 736: for specifying the content of internal entities ! 737: (<nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>), ! 738: the values of attributes (<nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>), ! 739: and external identifiers ! 740: (<nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt>). ! 741: Note that a <nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt> ! 742: can be parsed without scanning for markup. ! 743: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 744: <head>Literals</head> ! 745: <prod id="NT-EntityValue"><lhs>EntityValue</lhs> ! 746: <rhs>'"' ! 747: ([^%&"] ! 748: | <nt def="NT-PEReference">PEReference</nt> ! 749: | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt>)* ! 750: '"' ! 751: </rhs> ! 752: <rhs>| ! 753: "'" ! 754: ([^%&'] ! 755: | <nt def="NT-PEReference">PEReference</nt> ! 756: | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt>)* ! 757: "'"</rhs> ! 758: </prod> ! 759: <prod id="NT-AttValue"><lhs>AttValue</lhs> ! 760: <rhs>'"' ! 761: ([^<&"] ! 762: | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt>)* ! 763: '"' ! 764: </rhs> ! 765: <rhs>| ! 766: "'" ! 767: ([^<&'] ! 768: | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt>)* ! 769: "'"</rhs> ! 770: </prod> ! 771: <prod id="NT-SystemLiteral"><lhs>SystemLiteral</lhs> ! 772: <rhs>('"' [^"]* '"') | ("'" [^']* "'") ! 773: </rhs> ! 774: </prod> ! 775: <prod id="NT-PubidLiteral"><lhs>PubidLiteral</lhs> ! 776: <rhs>'"' <nt def="NT-PubidChar">PubidChar</nt>* ! 777: '"' ! 778: | "'" (<nt def="NT-PubidChar">PubidChar</nt> - "'")* "'"</rhs> ! 779: </prod> ! 780: <prod id="NT-PubidChar"><lhs>PubidChar</lhs> ! 781: <rhs>#x20 | #xD | #xA ! 782: | [a-zA-Z0-9] ! 783: | [-'()+,./:=?;!*#@$_%]</rhs> ! 784: </prod> ! 785: </scrap> ! 786: </p> ! 787: ! 788: </div2> ! 789: ! 790: <div2 id="syntax"> ! 791: <head>Character Data and Markup</head> ! 792: ! 793: <p><termref def="dt-text">Text</termref> consists of intermingled ! 794: <termref def="dt-chardata">character ! 795: data</termref> and markup. ! 796: <termdef id="dt-markup" term="Markup"><term>Markup</term> takes the form of ! 797: <termref def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref>, ! 798: <termref def="dt-etag">end-tags</termref>, ! 799: <termref def="dt-empty">empty-element tags</termref>, ! 800: <termref def="dt-entref">entity references</termref>, ! 801: <termref def="dt-charref">character references</termref>, ! 802: <termref def="dt-comment">comments</termref>, ! 803: <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref> delimiters, ! 804: <termref def="dt-doctype">document type declarations</termref>, and ! 805: <termref def="dt-pi">processing instructions</termref>. ! 806: </termdef> ! 807: </p> ! 808: <p><termdef id="dt-chardata" term="Character Data">All text that is not markup ! 809: constitutes the <term>character data</term> of ! 810: the document.</termdef></p> ! 811: <p>The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) ! 812: may appear in their literal form <emph>only</emph> when used as markup ! 813: delimiters, or within a <termref def="dt-comment">comment</termref>, a ! 814: <termref def="dt-pi">processing instruction</termref>, ! 815: or a <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref>. ! 816: ! 817: They are also legal within the <termref def="dt-litentval">literal entity ! 818: value</termref> of an internal entity declaration; see ! 819: <specref ref="wf-entities"/>. ! 820: <!-- FINAL EDIT: restore internal entity decl or leave it out. --> ! 821: If they are needed elsewhere, ! 822: they must be <termref def="dt-escape">escaped</termref> ! 823: using either <termref def="dt-charref">numeric character references</termref> ! 824: or the strings ! 825: "<code>&amp;</code>" and "<code>&lt;</code>" respectively. ! 826: The right angle ! 827: bracket (>) may be represented using the string ! 828: "<code>&gt;</code>", and must, <termref def="dt-compat">for ! 829: compatibility</termref>, ! 830: be escaped using ! 831: "<code>&gt;</code>" or a character reference ! 832: when it appears in the string ! 833: "<code>]]></code>" ! 834: in content, ! 835: when that string is not marking the end of ! 836: a <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref>. ! 837: </p> ! 838: <p> ! 839: In the content of elements, character data ! 840: is any string of characters which does ! 841: not contain the start-delimiter of any markup. ! 842: In a CDATA section, character data ! 843: is any string of characters not including the CDATA-section-close ! 844: delimiter, "<code>]]></code>".</p> ! 845: <p> ! 846: To allow attribute values to contain both single and double quotes, the ! 847: apostrophe or single-quote character (') may be represented as ! 848: "<code>&apos;</code>", and the double-quote character (") as ! 849: "<code>&quot;</code>". ! 850: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 851: <head>Character Data</head> ! 852: <prod id="NT-CharData"> ! 853: <lhs>CharData</lhs> ! 854: <rhs>[^<&]* - ([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*)</rhs> ! 855: </prod> ! 856: </scrap> ! 857: </p> ! 858: </div2> ! 859: ! 860: <div2 id="sec-comments"> ! 861: <head>Comments</head> ! 862: ! 863: <p><termdef id="dt-comment" term="Comment"><term>Comments</term> may ! 864: appear anywhere in a document outside other ! 865: <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>; in addition, ! 866: they may appear within the document type declaration ! 867: at places allowed by the grammar. ! 868: They are not part of the document's <termref def="dt-chardata">character ! 869: data</termref>; an XML ! 870: processor may, but need not, make it possible for an application to ! 871: retrieve the text of comments. ! 872: <termref def="dt-compat">For compatibility</termref>, the string ! 873: "<code>--</code>" (double-hyphen) must not occur within ! 874: comments. ! 875: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 876: <head>Comments</head> ! 877: <prod id="NT-Comment"><lhs>Comment</lhs> ! 878: <rhs>'<!--' ! 879: ((<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt> - '-') ! 880: | ('-' (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt> - '-')))* ! 881: '-->'</rhs> ! 882: </prod> ! 883: </scrap> ! 884: </termdef></p> ! 885: <p>An example of a comment: ! 886: <eg><!&como; declarations for <head> & <body> &comc;></eg> ! 887: </p> ! 888: </div2> ! 889: ! 890: <div2 id="sec-pi"> ! 891: <head>Processing Instructions</head> ! 892: ! 893: <p><termdef id="dt-pi" term="Processing instruction"><term>Processing ! 894: instructions</term> (PIs) allow documents to contain instructions ! 895: for applications. ! 896: ! 897: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 898: <head>Processing Instructions</head> ! 899: <prod id="NT-PI"><lhs>PI</lhs> ! 900: <rhs>'<?' <nt def="NT-PITarget">PITarget</nt> ! 901: (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 902: (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* - ! 903: (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* &pic; <nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>*)))? ! 904: &pic;</rhs></prod> ! 905: <prod id="NT-PITarget"><lhs>PITarget</lhs> ! 906: <rhs><nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> - ! 907: (('X' | 'x') ('M' | 'm') ('L' | 'l'))</rhs> ! 908: </prod> ! 909: </scrap></termdef> ! 910: PIs are not part of the document's <termref def="dt-chardata">character ! 911: data</termref>, but must be passed through to the application. The ! 912: PI begins with a target (<nt def="NT-PITarget">PITarget</nt>) used ! 913: to identify the application to which the instruction is directed. ! 914: The target names "<code>XML</code>", "<code>xml</code>", and so on are ! 915: reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this ! 916: specification. ! 917: The ! 918: XML <termref def="dt-notation">Notation</termref> mechanism ! 919: may be used for ! 920: formal declaration of PI targets. ! 921: </p> ! 922: </div2> ! 923: ! 924: <div2 id="sec-cdata-sect"> ! 925: <head>CDATA Sections</head> ! 926: ! 927: <p><termdef id="dt-cdsection" term="CDATA Section"><term>CDATA sections</term> ! 928: may occur ! 929: anywhere character data may occur; they are ! 930: used to escape blocks of text containing characters which would ! 931: otherwise be recognized as markup. CDATA sections begin with the ! 932: string "<code><![CDATA[</code>" and end with the string ! 933: "<code>]]></code>": ! 934: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 935: <head>CDATA Sections</head> ! 936: <prod id="NT-CDSect"><lhs>CDSect</lhs> ! 937: <rhs><nt def="NT-CDStart">CDStart</nt> ! 938: <nt def="NT-CData">CData</nt> ! 939: <nt def="NT-CDEnd">CDEnd</nt></rhs></prod> ! 940: <prod id="NT-CDStart"><lhs>CDStart</lhs> ! 941: <rhs>'<![CDATA['</rhs> ! 942: </prod> ! 943: <prod id="NT-CData"><lhs>CData</lhs> ! 944: <rhs>(<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* - ! 945: (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* ']]>' <nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>*)) ! 946: </rhs> ! 947: </prod> ! 948: <prod id="NT-CDEnd"><lhs>CDEnd</lhs> ! 949: <rhs>']]>'</rhs> ! 950: </prod> ! 951: </scrap> ! 952: ! 953: Within a CDATA section, only the <nt def="NT-CDEnd">CDEnd</nt> string is ! 954: recognized as markup, so that left angle brackets and ampersands may occur in ! 955: their literal form; they need not (and cannot) be escaped using ! 956: "<code>&lt;</code>" and "<code>&amp;</code>". CDATA sections ! 957: cannot nest.</termdef> ! 958: </p> ! 959: ! 960: <p>An example of a CDATA section, in which "<code><greeting></code>" and ! 961: "<code></greeting></code>" ! 962: are recognized as <termref def="dt-chardata">character data</termref>, not ! 963: <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>: ! 964: <eg><![CDATA[<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>]]></eg> ! 965: </p> ! 966: </div2> ! 967: ! 968: <div2 id="sec-prolog-dtd"> ! 969: <head>Prolog and Document Type Declaration</head> ! 970: ! 971: <p><termdef id="dt-xmldecl" term="XML Declaration">XML documents ! 972: may, and should, ! 973: begin with an <term>XML declaration</term> which specifies ! 974: the version of ! 975: XML being used.</termdef> ! 976: For example, the following is a complete XML document, <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> but not ! 977: <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref>: ! 978: <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?> ! 979: <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting> ! 980: ]]></eg> ! 981: and so is this: ! 982: <eg><![CDATA[<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting> ! 983: ]]></eg> ! 984: </p> ! 985: ! 986: <p>The version number "<code>1.0</code>" should be used to indicate ! 987: conformance to this version of this specification; it is an error ! 988: for a document to use the value "<code>1.0</code>" ! 989: if it does not conform to this version of this specification. ! 990: It is the intent ! 991: of the XML working group to give later versions of this specification ! 992: numbers other than "<code>1.0</code>", but this intent does not ! 993: indicate a ! 994: commitment to produce any future versions of XML, nor if any are produced, to ! 995: use any particular numbering scheme. ! 996: Since future versions are not ruled out, this construct is provided ! 997: as a means to allow the possibility of automatic version recognition, should ! 998: it become necessary. ! 999: Processors may signal an error if they receive documents labeled with ! 1000: versions they do not support. ! 1001: </p> ! 1002: <p>The function of the markup in an XML document is to describe its ! 1003: storage and logical structure and to associate attribute-value pairs ! 1004: with its logical structures. XML provides a mechanism, the <termref def="dt-doctype">document type declaration</termref>, to define ! 1005: constraints on the logical structure and to support the use of ! 1006: predefined storage units. ! 1007: ! 1008: <termdef id="dt-valid" term="Validity">An XML document is ! 1009: <term>valid</term> if it has an associated document type ! 1010: declaration and if the document ! 1011: complies with the constraints expressed in it.</termdef></p> ! 1012: <p>The document type declaration must appear before ! 1013: the first <termref def="dt-element">element</termref> in the document. ! 1014: <scrap lang="ebnf" id="xmldoc"> ! 1015: <head>Prolog</head> ! 1016: <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9"> ! 1017: <prod id="NT-prolog"><lhs>prolog</lhs> ! 1018: <rhs><nt def="NT-XMLDecl">XMLDecl</nt>? ! 1019: <nt def="NT-Misc">Misc</nt>* ! 1020: (<nt def="NT-doctypedecl">doctypedecl</nt> ! 1021: <nt def="NT-Misc">Misc</nt>*)?</rhs></prod> ! 1022: <prod id="NT-XMLDecl"><lhs>XMLDecl</lhs> ! 1023: <rhs>&xmlpio; ! 1024: <nt def="NT-VersionInfo">VersionInfo</nt> ! 1025: <nt def="NT-EncodingDecl">EncodingDecl</nt>? ! 1026: <nt def="NT-SDDecl">SDDecl</nt>? ! 1027: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 1028: &pic;</rhs> ! 1029: </prod> ! 1030: <prod id="NT-VersionInfo"><lhs>VersionInfo</lhs> ! 1031: <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> 'version' <nt def="NT-Eq">Eq</nt> ! 1032: (' <nt def="NT-VersionNum">VersionNum</nt> ' ! 1033: | " <nt def="NT-VersionNum">VersionNum</nt> ")</rhs> ! 1034: </prod> ! 1035: <prod id="NT-Eq"><lhs>Eq</lhs> ! 1036: <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '=' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?</rhs></prod> ! 1037: <prod id="NT-VersionNum"> ! 1038: <lhs>VersionNum</lhs> ! 1039: <rhs>([a-zA-Z0-9_.:] | '-')+</rhs> ! 1040: </prod> ! 1041: <prod id="NT-Misc"><lhs>Misc</lhs> ! 1042: <rhs><nt def="NT-Comment">Comment</nt> | <nt def="NT-PI">PI</nt> | ! 1043: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt></rhs></prod> ! 1044: </prodgroup> ! 1045: </scrap></p> ! 1046: ! 1047: <p><termdef id="dt-doctype" term="Document Type Declaration">The XML ! 1048: <term>document type declaration</term> ! 1049: contains or points to ! 1050: <termref def="dt-markupdecl">markup declarations</termref> ! 1051: that provide a grammar for a ! 1052: class of documents. ! 1053: This grammar is known as a document type definition, ! 1054: or <term>DTD</term>. ! 1055: The document type declaration can point to an external subset (a ! 1056: special kind of ! 1057: <termref def="dt-extent">external entity</termref>) containing markup ! 1058: declarations, or can ! 1059: contain the markup declarations directly in an internal subset, or can do ! 1060: both. ! 1061: The DTD for a document consists of both subsets taken ! 1062: together.</termdef> ! 1063: </p> ! 1064: <p><termdef id="dt-markupdecl" term="markup declaration"> ! 1065: A <term>markup declaration</term> is ! 1066: an <termref def="dt-eldecl">element type declaration</termref>, ! 1067: an <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute-list declaration</termref>, ! 1068: an <termref def="dt-entdecl">entity declaration</termref>, or ! 1069: a <termref def="dt-notdecl">notation declaration</termref>. ! 1070: </termdef> ! 1071: These declarations may be contained in whole or in part ! 1072: within <termref def="dt-PE">parameter entities</termref>, ! 1073: as described in the well-formedness and validity constraints below. ! 1074: For fuller information, see ! 1075: <specref ref="sec-physical-struct"/>.</p> ! 1076: <scrap lang="ebnf" id="dtd"> ! 1077: <head>Document Type Definition</head> ! 1078: <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9"> ! 1079: <prod id="NT-doctypedecl"><lhs>doctypedecl</lhs> ! 1080: <rhs>'<!DOCTYPE' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 1081: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 1082: <nt def="NT-ExternalID">ExternalID</nt>)? ! 1083: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ('[' ! 1084: (<nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt> ! 1085: | <nt def="NT-PEReference">PEReference</nt> ! 1086: | <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>)* ! 1087: ']' ! 1088: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?)? '>'</rhs> ! 1089: <vc def="vc-roottype"/> ! 1090: </prod> ! 1091: <prod id="NT-markupdecl"><lhs>markupdecl</lhs> ! 1092: <rhs><nt def="NT-elementdecl">elementdecl</nt> ! 1093: | <nt def="NT-AttlistDecl">AttlistDecl</nt> ! 1094: | <nt def="NT-EntityDecl">EntityDecl</nt> ! 1095: | <nt def="NT-NotationDecl">NotationDecl</nt> ! 1096: | <nt def="NT-PI">PI</nt> ! 1097: | <nt def="NT-Comment">Comment</nt> ! 1098: </rhs> ! 1099: <vc def="vc-PEinMarkupDecl"/> ! 1100: <wfc def="wfc-PEinInternalSubset"/> ! 1101: </prod> ! 1102: ! 1103: </prodgroup> ! 1104: </scrap> ! 1105: ! 1106: <p>The markup declarations may be made up in whole or in part of ! 1107: the <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> of ! 1108: <termref def="dt-PE">parameter entities</termref>. ! 1109: The productions later in this specification for ! 1110: individual nonterminals (<nt def="NT-elementdecl">elementdecl</nt>, ! 1111: <nt def="NT-AttlistDecl">AttlistDecl</nt>, and so on) describe ! 1112: the declarations <emph>after</emph> all the parameter entities have been ! 1113: <termref def="dt-include">included</termref>.</p> ! 1114: ! 1115: <vcnote id="vc-roottype"> ! 1116: <head>Root Element Type</head> ! 1117: <p> ! 1118: The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in the document type declaration must ! 1119: match the element type of the <termref def="dt-root">root element</termref>. ! 1120: </p> ! 1121: </vcnote> ! 1122: ! 1123: <vcnote id="vc-PEinMarkupDecl"> ! 1124: <head>Proper Declaration/PE Nesting</head> ! 1125: <p>Parameter-entity ! 1126: <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> must be properly nested ! 1127: with markup declarations. ! 1128: That is to say, if either the first character ! 1129: or the last character of a markup ! 1130: declaration (<nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt> above) ! 1131: is contained in the replacement text for a ! 1132: <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity reference</termref>, ! 1133: both must be contained in the same replacement text.</p> ! 1134: </vcnote> ! 1135: <wfcnote id="wfc-PEinInternalSubset"> ! 1136: <head>PEs in Internal Subset</head> ! 1137: <p>In the internal DTD subset, ! 1138: <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity references</termref> ! 1139: can occur only where markup declarations can occur, not ! 1140: within markup declarations. (This does not apply to ! 1141: references that occur in ! 1142: external parameter entities or to the external subset.) ! 1143: </p> ! 1144: </wfcnote> ! 1145: <p> ! 1146: Like the internal subset, the external subset and ! 1147: any external parameter entities referred to in the DTD ! 1148: must consist of a series of complete markup declarations of the types ! 1149: allowed by the non-terminal symbol ! 1150: <nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt>, interspersed with white space ! 1151: or <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity references</termref>. ! 1152: However, portions of the contents ! 1153: of the ! 1154: external subset or of external parameter entities may conditionally be ignored ! 1155: by using ! 1156: the <termref def="dt-cond-section">conditional section</termref> ! 1157: construct; this is not allowed in the internal subset. ! 1158: ! 1159: <scrap id="ext-Subset"> ! 1160: <head>External Subset</head> ! 1161: <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9"> ! 1162: <prod id="NT-extSubset"><lhs>extSubset</lhs> ! 1163: <rhs><nt def="NT-TextDecl">TextDecl</nt>? ! 1164: <nt def="NT-extSubsetDecl">extSubsetDecl</nt></rhs></prod> ! 1165: <prod id="NT-extSubsetDecl"><lhs>extSubsetDecl</lhs> ! 1166: <rhs>( ! 1167: <nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt> ! 1168: | <nt def="NT-conditionalSect">conditionalSect</nt> ! 1169: | <nt def="NT-PEReference">PEReference</nt> ! 1170: | <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 1171: )*</rhs> ! 1172: </prod> ! 1173: </prodgroup> ! 1174: </scrap></p> ! 1175: <p>The external subset and external parameter entities also differ ! 1176: from the internal subset in that in them, ! 1177: <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity references</termref> ! 1178: are permitted <emph>within</emph> markup declarations, ! 1179: not only <emph>between</emph> markup declarations.</p> ! 1180: <p>An example of an XML document with a document type declaration: ! 1181: <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?> ! 1182: <!DOCTYPE greeting SYSTEM "hello.dtd"> ! 1183: <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting> ! 1184: ]]></eg> ! 1185: The <termref def="dt-sysid">system identifier</termref> ! 1186: "<code>hello.dtd</code>" gives the URI of a DTD for the document.</p> ! 1187: <p>The declarations can also be given locally, as in this ! 1188: example: ! 1189: <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> ! 1190: <!DOCTYPE greeting [ ! 1191: <!ELEMENT greeting (#PCDATA)> ! 1192: ]> ! 1193: <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting> ! 1194: ]]></eg> ! 1195: If both the external and internal subsets are used, the ! 1196: internal subset is considered to occur before the external subset. ! 1197: <!-- 'is considered to'? boo. whazzat mean? --> ! 1198: This has the effect that entity and attribute-list declarations in the ! 1199: internal subset take precedence over those in the external subset. ! 1200: </p> ! 1201: </div2> ! 1202: ! 1203: <div2 id="sec-rmd"> ! 1204: <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head> ! 1205: <p>Markup declarations can affect the content of the document, ! 1206: as passed from an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref> ! 1207: to an application; examples are attribute defaults and entity ! 1208: declarations. ! 1209: The standalone document declaration, ! 1210: which may appear as a component of the XML declaration, signals ! 1211: whether or not there are such declarations which appear external to ! 1212: the <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>. ! 1213: <scrap lang="ebnf" id="fulldtd"> ! 1214: <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head> ! 1215: <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="19.5" pcw5="9"> ! 1216: <prod id="NT-SDDecl"><lhs>SDDecl</lhs> ! 1217: <rhs> ! 1218: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 1219: 'standalone' <nt def="NT-Eq">Eq</nt> ! 1220: (("'" ('yes' | 'no') "'") | ('"' ('yes' | 'no') '"')) ! 1221: </rhs> ! 1222: <vc def="vc-check-rmd"/></prod> ! 1223: </prodgroup> ! 1224: </scrap></p> ! 1225: <p> ! 1226: In a standalone document declaration, the value "<code>yes</code>" indicates ! 1227: that there ! 1228: are no markup declarations external to the <termref def="dt-docent">document ! 1229: entity</termref> (either in the DTD external subset, or in an ! 1230: external parameter entity referenced from the internal subset) ! 1231: which affect the information passed from the XML processor to ! 1232: the application. ! 1233: The value "<code>no</code>" indicates that there are or may be such ! 1234: external markup declarations. ! 1235: Note that the standalone document declaration only ! 1236: denotes the presence of external <emph>declarations</emph>; the presence, in a ! 1237: document, of ! 1238: references to external <emph>entities</emph>, when those entities are ! 1239: internally declared, ! 1240: does not change its standalone status.</p> ! 1241: <p>If there are no external markup declarations, the standalone document ! 1242: declaration has no meaning. ! 1243: If there are external markup declarations but there is no standalone ! 1244: document declaration, the value "<code>no</code>" is assumed.</p> ! 1245: <p>Any XML document for which <code>standalone="no"</code> holds can ! 1246: be converted algorithmically to a standalone document, ! 1247: which may be desirable for some network delivery applications.</p> ! 1248: <vcnote id="vc-check-rmd"> ! 1249: <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head> ! 1250: <p>The standalone document declaration must have ! 1251: the value "<code>no</code>" if any external markup declarations ! 1252: contain declarations of:</p><ulist> ! 1253: <item><p>attributes with <termref def="dt-default">default</termref> values, if ! 1254: elements to which ! 1255: these attributes apply appear in the document without ! 1256: specifications of values for these attributes, or</p></item> ! 1257: <item><p>entities (other than &magicents;), ! 1258: if <termref def="dt-entref">references</termref> to those ! 1259: entities appear in the document, or</p> ! 1260: </item> ! 1261: <item><p>attributes with values subject to ! 1262: <titleref href="AVNormalize">normalization</titleref>, where the ! 1263: attribute appears in the document with a value which will ! 1264: change as a result of normalization, or</p> ! 1265: </item> ! 1266: <item> ! 1267: <p>element types with <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref>, ! 1268: if white space occurs ! 1269: directly within any instance of those types. ! 1270: </p></item> ! 1271: </ulist> ! 1272: ! 1273: </vcnote> ! 1274: <p>An example XML declaration with a standalone document declaration:<eg><?xml version="&XML.version;" standalone='yes'?></eg></p> ! 1275: </div2> ! 1276: <div2 id="sec-white-space"> ! 1277: <head>White Space Handling</head> ! 1278: ! 1279: <p>In editing XML documents, it is often convenient to use "white space" ! 1280: (spaces, tabs, and blank lines, denoted by the nonterminal ! 1281: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> in this specification) to ! 1282: set apart the markup for greater readability. Such white space is typically ! 1283: not intended for inclusion in the delivered version of the document. ! 1284: On the other hand, "significant" white space that should be preserved in the ! 1285: delivered version is common, for example in poetry and ! 1286: source code.</p> ! 1287: <p>An <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref> ! 1288: must always pass all characters in a document that are not ! 1289: markup through to the application. A <termref def="dt-validating"> ! 1290: validating XML processor</termref> must also inform the application ! 1291: which of these characters constitute white space appearing ! 1292: in <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref>. ! 1293: </p> ! 1294: <p>A special <termref def="dt-attr">attribute</termref> ! 1295: named <kw>xml:space</kw> may be attached to an element ! 1296: to signal an intention that in that element, ! 1297: white space should be preserved by applications. ! 1298: In valid documents, this attribute, like any other, must be ! 1299: <termref def="dt-attdecl">declared</termref> if it is used. ! 1300: When declared, it must be given as an ! 1301: <termref def="dt-enumerated">enumerated type</termref> whose only ! 1302: possible values are "<code>default</code>" and "<code>preserve</code>". ! 1303: For example:<eg><![CDATA[ <!ATTLIST poem xml:space (default|preserve) 'preserve'>]]></eg></p> ! 1304: <p>The value "<code>default</code>" signals that applications' ! 1305: default white-space processing modes are acceptable for this element; the ! 1306: value "<code>preserve</code>" indicates the intent that applications preserve ! 1307: all the white space. ! 1308: This declared intent is considered to apply to all elements within the content ! 1309: of the element where it is specified, unless overriden with another instance ! 1310: of the <kw>xml:space</kw> attribute. ! 1311: </p> ! 1312: <p>The <termref def="dt-root">root element</termref> of any document ! 1313: is considered to have signaled no intentions as regards application space ! 1314: handling, unless it provides a value for ! 1315: this attribute or the attribute is declared with a default value. ! 1316: </p> ! 1317: ! 1318: </div2> ! 1319: <div2 id="sec-line-ends"> ! 1320: <head>End-of-Line Handling</head> ! 1321: <p>XML <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed entities</termref> are often stored in ! 1322: computer files which, for editing convenience, are organized into lines. ! 1323: These lines are typically separated by some combination of the characters ! 1324: carriage-return (#xD) and line-feed (#xA).</p> ! 1325: <p>To simplify the tasks of <termref def="dt-app">applications</termref>, ! 1326: wherever an external parsed entity or the literal entity value ! 1327: of an internal parsed entity contains either the literal ! 1328: two-character sequence "#xD#xA" or a standalone literal ! 1329: #xD, an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref> must ! 1330: pass to the application the single character #xA. ! 1331: (This behavior can ! 1332: conveniently be produced by normalizing all ! 1333: line breaks to #xA on input, before parsing.) ! 1334: </p> ! 1335: </div2> ! 1336: <div2 id="sec-lang-tag"> ! 1337: <head>Language Identification</head> ! 1338: <p>In document processing, it is often useful to ! 1339: identify the natural or formal language ! 1340: in which the content is ! 1341: written. ! 1342: A special <termref def="dt-attr">attribute</termref> named ! 1343: <kw>xml:lang</kw> may be inserted in ! 1344: documents to specify the ! 1345: language used in the contents and attribute values ! 1346: of any element in an XML document. ! 1347: In valid documents, this attribute, like any other, must be ! 1348: <termref def="dt-attdecl">declared</termref> if it is used. ! 1349: The values of the attribute are language identifiers as defined ! 1350: by <bibref ref="RFC1766"/>, "Tags for the Identification of Languages": ! 1351: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1352: <head>Language Identification</head> ! 1353: <prod id="NT-LanguageID"><lhs>LanguageID</lhs> ! 1354: <rhs><nt def="NT-Langcode">Langcode</nt> ! 1355: ('-' <nt def="NT-Subcode">Subcode</nt>)*</rhs></prod> ! 1356: <prod id="NT-Langcode"><lhs>Langcode</lhs> ! 1357: <rhs><nt def="NT-ISO639Code">ISO639Code</nt> | ! 1358: <nt def="NT-IanaCode">IanaCode</nt> | ! 1359: <nt def="NT-UserCode">UserCode</nt></rhs> ! 1360: </prod> ! 1361: <prod id="NT-ISO639Code"><lhs>ISO639Code</lhs> ! 1362: <rhs>([a-z] | [A-Z]) ([a-z] | [A-Z])</rhs></prod> ! 1363: <prod id="NT-IanaCode"><lhs>IanaCode</lhs> ! 1364: <rhs>('i' | 'I') '-' ([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod> ! 1365: <prod id="NT-UserCode"><lhs>UserCode</lhs> ! 1366: <rhs>('x' | 'X') '-' ([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod> ! 1367: <prod id="NT-Subcode"><lhs>Subcode</lhs> ! 1368: <rhs>([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod> ! 1369: </scrap> ! 1370: The <nt def="NT-Langcode">Langcode</nt> may be any of the following: ! 1371: <ulist> ! 1372: <item><p>a two-letter language code as defined by ! 1373: <bibref ref="ISO639"/>, "Codes ! 1374: for the representation of names of languages"</p></item> ! 1375: <item><p>a language identifier registered with the Internet ! 1376: Assigned Numbers Authority <bibref ref="IANA"/>; these begin with the ! 1377: prefix "<code>i-</code>" (or "<code>I-</code>")</p></item> ! 1378: <item><p>a language identifier assigned by the user, or agreed on ! 1379: between parties in private use; these must begin with the ! 1380: prefix "<code>x-</code>" or "<code>X-</code>" in order to ensure that they do not conflict ! 1381: with names later standardized or registered with IANA</p></item> ! 1382: </ulist></p> ! 1383: <p>There may be any number of <nt def="NT-Subcode">Subcode</nt> segments; if ! 1384: the first ! 1385: subcode segment exists and the Subcode consists of two ! 1386: letters, then it must be a country code from ! 1387: <bibref ref="ISO3166"/>, "Codes ! 1388: for the representation of names of countries." ! 1389: If the first ! 1390: subcode consists of more than two letters, it must be ! 1391: a subcode for the language in question registered with IANA, ! 1392: unless the <nt def="NT-Langcode">Langcode</nt> begins with the prefix ! 1393: "<code>x-</code>" or ! 1394: "<code>X-</code>". </p> ! 1395: <p>It is customary to give the language code in lower case, and ! 1396: the country code (if any) in upper case. ! 1397: Note that these values, unlike other names in XML documents, ! 1398: are case insensitive.</p> ! 1399: <p>For example: ! 1400: <eg><![CDATA[<p xml:lang="en">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p> ! 1401: <p xml:lang="en-GB">What colour is it?</p> ! 1402: <p xml:lang="en-US">What color is it?</p> ! 1403: <sp who="Faust" desc='leise' xml:lang="de"> ! 1404: <l>Habe nun, ach! Philosophie,</l> ! 1405: <l>Juristerei, und Medizin</l> ! 1406: <l>und leider auch Theologie</l> ! 1407: <l>durchaus studiert mit heißem Bemüh'n.</l> ! 1408: </sp>]]></eg></p> ! 1409: <!--<p>The xml:lang value is considered to apply both to the contents of an ! 1410: element and ! 1411: (unless otherwise via attribute default values) to the ! 1412: values of all of its attributes with free-text (CDATA) values. --> ! 1413: <p>The intent declared with <kw>xml:lang</kw> is considered to apply to ! 1414: all attributes and content of the element where it is specified, ! 1415: unless overridden with an instance of <kw>xml:lang</kw> ! 1416: on another element within that content.</p> ! 1417: <!-- ! 1418: If no ! 1419: value is specified for xml:lang on an element, and no default value is ! 1420: defined for it in the DTD, then the xml:lang attribute of any element ! 1421: takes the same value it has in the parent element, if any. The two ! 1422: technical terms in the following example both have the same effective ! 1423: value for xml:lang: ! 1424: ! 1425: <p xml:lang="en">Here the keywords are ! 1426: <term xml:lang="en">shift</term> and ! 1427: <term>reduce</term>. ...</p> ! 1428: ! 1429: The application, not the XML processor, is responsible for this ' ! 1430: inheritance' of attribute values. ! 1431: --> ! 1432: <p>A simple declaration for <kw>xml:lang</kw> might take ! 1433: the form ! 1434: <eg>xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED</eg> ! 1435: but specific default values may also be given, if appropriate. In a ! 1436: collection of French poems for English students, with glosses and ! 1437: notes in English, the xml:lang attribute might be declared this way: ! 1438: <eg><![CDATA[ <!ATTLIST poem xml:lang NMTOKEN 'fr'> ! 1439: <!ATTLIST gloss xml:lang NMTOKEN 'en'> ! 1440: <!ATTLIST note xml:lang NMTOKEN 'en'>]]></eg> ! 1441: </p> ! 1442: ! 1443: </div2> ! 1444: </div1> ! 1445: <!-- &Elements; --> ! 1446: ! 1447: <div1 id="sec-logical-struct"> ! 1448: <head>Logical Structures</head> ! 1449: ! 1450: <p><termdef id="dt-element" term="Element">Each <termref def="dt-xml-doc">XML document</termref> contains one or more ! 1451: <term>elements</term>, the boundaries of which are ! 1452: either delimited by <termref def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref> ! 1453: 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, ! 1454: identified by name, sometimes called its "generic ! 1455: identifier" (GI), and may have a set of ! 1456: attribute specifications.</termdef> Each attribute specification ! 1457: has a <termref def="dt-attrname">name</termref> and a <termref def="dt-attrval">value</termref>. ! 1458: </p> ! 1459: <scrap lang="ebnf"><head>Element</head> ! 1460: <prod id="NT-element"><lhs>element</lhs> ! 1461: <rhs><nt def="NT-EmptyElemTag">EmptyElemTag</nt></rhs> ! 1462: <rhs>| <nt def="NT-STag">STag</nt> <nt def="NT-content">content</nt> ! 1463: <nt def="NT-ETag">ETag</nt></rhs> ! 1464: <wfc def="GIMatch"/> ! 1465: <vc def="elementvalid"/> ! 1466: </prod> ! 1467: </scrap> ! 1468: <p>This specification does not constrain the semantics, use, or (beyond ! 1469: syntax) names of the element types and attributes, except that names ! 1470: beginning with a match to <code>(('X'|'x')('M'|'m')('L'|'l'))</code> ! 1471: are reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this ! 1472: specification. ! 1473: </p> ! 1474: <wfcnote id="GIMatch"> ! 1475: <head>Element Type Match</head> ! 1476: <p> ! 1477: The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in an element's end-tag must match ! 1478: the element type in ! 1479: the start-tag. ! 1480: </p> ! 1481: </wfcnote> ! 1482: <vcnote id="elementvalid"> ! 1483: <head>Element Valid</head> ! 1484: <p>An element is ! 1485: valid if ! 1486: there is a declaration matching ! 1487: <nt def="NT-elementdecl">elementdecl</nt> where the ! 1488: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> matches the element type, and ! 1489: one of the following holds:</p> ! 1490: <olist> ! 1491: <item><p>The declaration matches <kw>EMPTY</kw> and the element has no ! 1492: <termref def="dt-content">content</termref>.</p></item> ! 1493: <item><p>The declaration matches <nt def="NT-children">children</nt> and ! 1494: the sequence of ! 1495: <termref def="dt-parentchild">child elements</termref> ! 1496: belongs to the language generated by the regular expression in ! 1497: the content model, with optional white space (characters ! 1498: matching the nonterminal <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>) between each pair ! 1499: of child elements.</p></item> ! 1500: <item><p>The declaration matches <nt def="NT-Mixed">Mixed</nt> and ! 1501: the content consists of <termref def="dt-chardata">character ! 1502: data</termref> and <termref def="dt-parentchild">child elements</termref> ! 1503: whose types match names in the content model.</p></item> ! 1504: <item><p>The declaration matches <kw>ANY</kw>, and the types ! 1505: of any <termref def="dt-parentchild">child elements</termref> have ! 1506: been declared.</p></item> ! 1507: </olist> ! 1508: </vcnote> ! 1509: ! 1510: <div2 id="sec-starttags"> ! 1511: <head>Start-Tags, End-Tags, and Empty-Element Tags</head> ! 1512: ! 1513: <p><termdef id="dt-stag" term="Start-Tag">The beginning of every ! 1514: non-empty XML element is marked by a <term>start-tag</term>. ! 1515: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1516: <head>Start-tag</head> ! 1517: <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5"> ! 1518: <prod id="NT-STag"><lhs>STag</lhs> ! 1519: <rhs>'<' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 1520: (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Attribute">Attribute</nt>)* ! 1521: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs> ! 1522: <wfc def="uniqattspec"/> ! 1523: </prod> ! 1524: <prod id="NT-Attribute"><lhs>Attribute</lhs> ! 1525: <rhs><nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> <nt def="NT-Eq">Eq</nt> ! 1526: <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt></rhs> ! 1527: <vc def="ValueType"/> ! 1528: <wfc def="NoExternalRefs"/> ! 1529: <wfc def="CleanAttrVals"/></prod> ! 1530: </prodgroup> ! 1531: </scrap> ! 1532: The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in ! 1533: the start- and end-tags gives the ! 1534: element's <term>type</term>.</termdef> ! 1535: <termdef id="dt-attr" term="Attribute"> ! 1536: The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>-<nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt> pairs are ! 1537: referred to as ! 1538: the <term>attribute specifications</term> of the element</termdef>, ! 1539: <termdef id="dt-attrname" term="Attribute Name">with the ! 1540: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in each pair ! 1541: referred to as the <term>attribute name</term></termdef> and ! 1542: <termdef id="dt-attrval" term="Attribute Value">the content of the ! 1543: <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt> (the text between the ! 1544: <code>'</code> or <code>"</code> delimiters) ! 1545: as the <term>attribute value</term>.</termdef> ! 1546: </p> ! 1547: <wfcnote id="uniqattspec"> ! 1548: <head>Unique Att Spec</head> ! 1549: <p> ! 1550: No attribute name may appear more than once in the same start-tag ! 1551: or empty-element tag. ! 1552: </p> ! 1553: </wfcnote> ! 1554: <vcnote id="ValueType"> ! 1555: <head>Attribute Value Type</head> ! 1556: <p> ! 1557: The attribute must have been declared; the value must be of the type ! 1558: declared for it. ! 1559: (For attribute types, see <specref ref="attdecls"/>.) ! 1560: </p> ! 1561: </vcnote> ! 1562: <wfcnote id="NoExternalRefs"> ! 1563: <head>No External Entity References</head> ! 1564: <p> ! 1565: Attribute values cannot contain direct or indirect entity references ! 1566: to external entities. ! 1567: </p> ! 1568: </wfcnote> ! 1569: <wfcnote id="CleanAttrVals"> ! 1570: <head>No <code><</code> in Attribute Values</head> ! 1571: <p>The <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> of any entity ! 1572: referred to directly or indirectly in an attribute ! 1573: value (other than "<code>&lt;</code>") must not contain ! 1574: a <code><</code>. ! 1575: </p></wfcnote> ! 1576: <p>An example of a start-tag: ! 1577: <eg><termdef id="dt-dog" term="dog"></eg></p> ! 1578: <p><termdef id="dt-etag" term="End Tag">The end of every element ! 1579: that begins with a start-tag must ! 1580: be marked by an <term>end-tag</term> ! 1581: containing a name that echoes the element's type as given in the ! 1582: start-tag: ! 1583: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1584: <head>End-tag</head> ! 1585: <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5"> ! 1586: <prod id="NT-ETag"><lhs>ETag</lhs> ! 1587: <rhs>'</' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 1588: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs></prod> ! 1589: </prodgroup> ! 1590: </scrap> ! 1591: </termdef></p> ! 1592: <p>An example of an end-tag:<eg></termdef></eg></p> ! 1593: <p><termdef id="dt-content" term="Content">The ! 1594: <termref def="dt-text">text</termref> between the start-tag and ! 1595: end-tag is called the element's ! 1596: <term>content</term>: ! 1597: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1598: <head>Content of Elements</head> ! 1599: <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5"> ! 1600: <prod id="NT-content"><lhs>content</lhs> ! 1601: <rhs>(<nt def="NT-element">element</nt> | <nt def="NT-CharData">CharData</nt> ! 1602: | <nt def="NT-Reference">Reference</nt> | <nt def="NT-CDSect">CDSect</nt> ! 1603: | <nt def="NT-PI">PI</nt> | <nt def="NT-Comment">Comment</nt>)*</rhs> ! 1604: </prod> ! 1605: </prodgroup> ! 1606: </scrap> ! 1607: </termdef></p> ! 1608: <p><termdef id="dt-empty" term="Empty">If an element is <term>empty</term>, ! 1609: it must be represented either by a start-tag immediately followed ! 1610: by an end-tag or by an empty-element tag.</termdef> ! 1611: <termdef id="dt-eetag" term="empty-element tag">An ! 1612: <term>empty-element tag</term> takes a special form: ! 1613: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1614: <head>Tags for Empty Elements</head> ! 1615: <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5"> ! 1616: <prod id="NT-EmptyElemTag"><lhs>EmptyElemTag</lhs> ! 1617: <rhs>'<' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 1618: <nt def="NT-Attribute">Attribute</nt>)* <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 1619: '/>'</rhs> ! 1620: <wfc def="uniqattspec"/> ! 1621: </prod> ! 1622: </prodgroup> ! 1623: </scrap> ! 1624: </termdef></p> ! 1625: <p>Empty-element tags may be used for any element which has no ! 1626: content, whether or not it is declared using the keyword ! 1627: <kw>EMPTY</kw>. ! 1628: <termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability</termref>, the empty-element ! 1629: tag must be used, and can only be used, for elements which are ! 1630: <termref def="dt-eldecl">declared</termref> <kw>EMPTY</kw>.</p> ! 1631: <p>Examples of empty elements: ! 1632: <eg><IMG align="left" ! 1633: src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" /> ! 1634: <br></br> ! 1635: <br/></eg></p> ! 1636: </div2> ! 1637: ! 1638: <div2 id="elemdecls"> ! 1639: <head>Element Type Declarations</head> ! 1640: ! 1641: <p>The <termref def="dt-element">element</termref> structure of an ! 1642: <termref def="dt-xml-doc">XML document</termref> may, for ! 1643: <termref def="dt-valid">validation</termref> purposes, ! 1644: be constrained ! 1645: using element type and attribute-list declarations. ! 1646: An element type declaration constrains the element's ! 1647: <termref def="dt-content">content</termref>. ! 1648: </p> ! 1649: ! 1650: <p>Element type declarations often constrain which element types can ! 1651: appear as <termref def="dt-parentchild">children</termref> of the element. ! 1652: At user option, an XML processor may issue a warning ! 1653: when a declaration mentions an element type for which no declaration ! 1654: is provided, but this is not an error.</p> ! 1655: <p><termdef id="dt-eldecl" term="Element Type declaration">An <term>element ! 1656: type declaration</term> takes the form: ! 1657: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1658: <head>Element Type Declaration</head> ! 1659: <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="18" pcw5="9"> ! 1660: <prod id="NT-elementdecl"><lhs>elementdecl</lhs> ! 1661: <rhs>'<!ELEMENT' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 1662: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 1663: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 1664: <nt def="NT-contentspec">contentspec</nt> ! 1665: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs> ! 1666: <vc def="EDUnique"/></prod> ! 1667: <prod id="NT-contentspec"><lhs>contentspec</lhs> ! 1668: <rhs>'EMPTY' ! 1669: | 'ANY' ! 1670: | <nt def="NT-Mixed">Mixed</nt> ! 1671: | <nt def="NT-children">children</nt> ! 1672: </rhs> ! 1673: </prod> ! 1674: </prodgroup> ! 1675: </scrap> ! 1676: where the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> gives the element type ! 1677: being declared.</termdef> ! 1678: </p> ! 1679: ! 1680: <vcnote id="EDUnique"> ! 1681: <head>Unique Element Type Declaration</head> ! 1682: <p> ! 1683: No element type may be declared more than once. ! 1684: </p> ! 1685: </vcnote> ! 1686: ! 1687: <p>Examples of element type declarations: ! 1688: <eg><!ELEMENT br EMPTY> ! 1689: <!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA|emph)* > ! 1690: <!ELEMENT %name.para; %content.para; > ! 1691: <!ELEMENT container ANY></eg></p> ! 1692: ! 1693: <div3 id="sec-element-content"> ! 1694: <head>Element Content</head> ! 1695: ! 1696: <p><termdef id="dt-elemcontent" term="Element content">An element <termref def="dt-stag">type</termref> has ! 1697: <term>element content</term> when elements of that ! 1698: type must contain only <termref def="dt-parentchild">child</termref> ! 1699: elements (no character data), optionally separated by ! 1700: white space (characters matching the nonterminal ! 1701: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>). ! 1702: </termdef> ! 1703: In this case, the ! 1704: constraint includes a content model, a simple grammar governing ! 1705: the allowed types of the child ! 1706: elements and the order in which they are allowed to appear. ! 1707: The grammar is built on ! 1708: content particles (<nt def="NT-cp">cp</nt>s), which consist of names, ! 1709: choice lists of content particles, or ! 1710: sequence lists of content particles: ! 1711: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1712: <head>Element-content Models</head> ! 1713: <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="16" pcw5="11"> ! 1714: <prod id="NT-children"><lhs>children</lhs> ! 1715: <rhs>(<nt def="NT-choice">choice</nt> ! 1716: | <nt def="NT-seq">seq</nt>) ! 1717: ('?' | '*' | '+')?</rhs></prod> ! 1718: <prod id="NT-cp"><lhs>cp</lhs> ! 1719: <rhs>(<nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 1720: | <nt def="NT-choice">choice</nt> ! 1721: | <nt def="NT-seq">seq</nt>) ! 1722: ('?' | '*' | '+')?</rhs></prod> ! 1723: <prod id="NT-choice"><lhs>choice</lhs> ! 1724: <rhs>'(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? cp ! 1725: ( <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '|' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? <nt def="NT-cp">cp</nt> )* ! 1726: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ')'</rhs> ! 1727: <vc def="vc-PEinGroup"/></prod> ! 1728: <prod id="NT-seq"><lhs>seq</lhs> ! 1729: <rhs>'(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? cp ! 1730: ( <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ',' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? <nt def="NT-cp">cp</nt> )* ! 1731: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ')'</rhs> ! 1732: <vc def="vc-PEinGroup"/></prod> ! 1733: ! 1734: </prodgroup> ! 1735: </scrap> ! 1736: where each <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> is the type of an element which may ! 1737: appear as a <termref def="dt-parentchild">child</termref>. ! 1738: Any content ! 1739: particle in a choice list may appear in the <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref> at the location where ! 1740: the choice list appears in the grammar; ! 1741: content particles occurring in a sequence list must each ! 1742: appear in the <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref> in the ! 1743: order given in the list. ! 1744: The optional character following a name or list governs ! 1745: whether the element or the content particles in the list may occur one ! 1746: or more (<code>+</code>), zero or more (<code>*</code>), or zero or ! 1747: one times (<code>?</code>). ! 1748: The absence of such an operator means that the element or content particle ! 1749: must appear exactly once. ! 1750: This syntax ! 1751: and meaning are identical to those used in the productions in this ! 1752: specification.</p> ! 1753: <p> ! 1754: The content of an element matches a content model if and only if it is ! 1755: possible to trace out a path through the content model, obeying the ! 1756: sequence, choice, and repetition operators and matching each element in ! 1757: the content against an element type in the content model. <termref def="dt-compat">For compatibility</termref>, it is an error ! 1758: if an element in the document can ! 1759: match more than one occurrence of an element type in the content model. ! 1760: For more information, see <specref ref="determinism"/>. ! 1761: <!-- appendix <specref ref="determinism"/>. --> ! 1762: <!-- appendix on deterministic content models. --> ! 1763: </p> ! 1764: <vcnote id="vc-PEinGroup"> ! 1765: <head>Proper Group/PE Nesting</head> ! 1766: <p>Parameter-entity ! 1767: <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> must be properly nested ! 1768: with parenthetized groups. ! 1769: That is to say, if either of the opening or closing parentheses ! 1770: in a <nt def="NT-choice">choice</nt>, <nt def="NT-seq">seq</nt>, or ! 1771: <nt def="NT-Mixed">Mixed</nt> construct ! 1772: is contained in the replacement text for a ! 1773: <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter entity</termref>, ! 1774: both must be contained in the same replacement text.</p> ! 1775: <p><termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability</termref>, ! 1776: if a parameter-entity reference appears in a ! 1777: <nt def="NT-choice">choice</nt>, <nt def="NT-seq">seq</nt>, or ! 1778: <nt def="NT-Mixed">Mixed</nt> construct, its replacement text ! 1779: should not be empty, and ! 1780: neither the first nor last non-blank ! 1781: character of the replacement text should be a connector ! 1782: (<code>|</code> or <code>,</code>). ! 1783: </p> ! 1784: </vcnote> ! 1785: <p>Examples of element-content models: ! 1786: <eg><!ELEMENT spec (front, body, back?)> ! 1787: <!ELEMENT div1 (head, (p | list | note)*, div2*)> ! 1788: <!ELEMENT dictionary-body (%div.mix; | %dict.mix;)*></eg></p> ! 1789: </div3> ! 1790: ! 1791: <div3 id="sec-mixed-content"> ! 1792: <head>Mixed Content</head> ! 1793: ! 1794: <p><termdef id="dt-mixed" term="Mixed Content">An element ! 1795: <termref def="dt-stag">type</termref> has ! 1796: <term>mixed content</term> when elements of that type may contain ! 1797: character data, optionally interspersed with ! 1798: <termref def="dt-parentchild">child</termref> elements.</termdef> ! 1799: In this case, the types of the child elements ! 1800: may be constrained, but not their order or their number of occurrences: ! 1801: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1802: <head>Mixed-content Declaration</head> ! 1803: <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="16" pcw5="11"> ! 1804: <prod id="NT-Mixed"><lhs>Mixed</lhs> ! 1805: <rhs>'(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 1806: '#PCDATA' ! 1807: (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 1808: '|' ! 1809: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 1810: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>)* ! 1811: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 1812: ')*' </rhs> ! 1813: <rhs>| '(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '#PCDATA' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ')' ! 1814: </rhs><vc def="vc-PEinGroup"/> ! 1815: <vc def="vc-MixedChildrenUnique"/> ! 1816: </prod> ! 1817: ! 1818: </prodgroup> ! 1819: </scrap> ! 1820: where the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>s give the types of elements ! 1821: that may appear as children. ! 1822: </p> ! 1823: <vcnote id="vc-MixedChildrenUnique"> ! 1824: <head>No Duplicate Types</head> ! 1825: <p>The same name must not appear more than once in a single mixed-content ! 1826: declaration. ! 1827: </p></vcnote> ! 1828: <p>Examples of mixed content declarations: ! 1829: <eg><!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA|a|ul|b|i|em)*> ! 1830: <!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA | %font; | %phrase; | %special; | %form;)* > ! 1831: <!ELEMENT b (#PCDATA)></eg></p> ! 1832: </div3> ! 1833: </div2> ! 1834: ! 1835: <div2 id="attdecls"> ! 1836: <head>Attribute-List Declarations</head> ! 1837: ! 1838: <p><termref def="dt-attr">Attributes</termref> are used to associate ! 1839: name-value pairs with <termref def="dt-element">elements</termref>. ! 1840: Attribute specifications may appear only within <termref def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref> ! 1841: and <termref def="dt-eetag">empty-element tags</termref>; ! 1842: thus, the productions used to ! 1843: recognize them appear in <specref ref="sec-starttags"/>. ! 1844: Attribute-list ! 1845: declarations may be used: ! 1846: <ulist> ! 1847: <item><p>To define the set of attributes pertaining to a given ! 1848: element type.</p></item> ! 1849: <item><p>To establish type constraints for these ! 1850: attributes.</p></item> ! 1851: <item><p>To provide <termref def="dt-default">default values</termref> ! 1852: for attributes.</p></item> ! 1853: </ulist> ! 1854: </p> ! 1855: <p><termdef id="dt-attdecl" term="Attribute-List Declaration"> ! 1856: <term>Attribute-list declarations</term> specify the name, data type, and default ! 1857: value (if any) of each attribute associated with a given element type: ! 1858: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1859: <head>Attribute-list Declaration</head> ! 1860: <prod id="NT-AttlistDecl"><lhs>AttlistDecl</lhs> ! 1861: <rhs>'<!ATTLIST' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 1862: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 1863: <nt def="NT-AttDef">AttDef</nt>* ! 1864: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs> ! 1865: </prod> ! 1866: <prod id="NT-AttDef"><lhs>AttDef</lhs> ! 1867: <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 1868: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-AttType">AttType</nt> ! 1869: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-DefaultDecl">DefaultDecl</nt></rhs> ! 1870: </prod> ! 1871: </scrap> ! 1872: The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in the ! 1873: <nt def="NT-AttlistDecl">AttlistDecl</nt> rule is the type of an element. At ! 1874: user option, an XML processor may issue a warning if attributes are ! 1875: declared for an element type not itself declared, but this is not an ! 1876: error. The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in the ! 1877: <nt def="NT-AttDef">AttDef</nt> rule is ! 1878: the name of the attribute.</termdef></p> ! 1879: <p> ! 1880: When more than one <nt def="NT-AttlistDecl">AttlistDecl</nt> is provided for a ! 1881: given element type, the contents of all those provided are merged. When ! 1882: more than one definition is provided for the same attribute of a ! 1883: given element type, the first declaration is binding and later ! 1884: declarations are ignored. ! 1885: <termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability,</termref> writers of DTDs ! 1886: may choose to provide at most one attribute-list declaration ! 1887: for a given element type, at most one attribute definition ! 1888: for a given attribute name, and at least one attribute definition ! 1889: in each attribute-list declaration. ! 1890: For interoperability, an XML processor may at user option ! 1891: issue a warning when more than one attribute-list declaration is ! 1892: provided for a given element type, or more than one attribute definition ! 1893: is provided ! 1894: for a given attribute, but this is not an error. ! 1895: </p> ! 1896: ! 1897: <div3 id="sec-attribute-types"> ! 1898: <head>Attribute Types</head> ! 1899: ! 1900: <p>XML attribute types are of three kinds: a string type, a ! 1901: set of tokenized types, and enumerated types. The string type may take ! 1902: any literal string as a value; the tokenized types have varying lexical ! 1903: and semantic constraints, as noted: ! 1904: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1905: <head>Attribute Types</head> ! 1906: <prodgroup pcw4="14" pcw5="11.5"> ! 1907: <prod id="NT-AttType"><lhs>AttType</lhs> ! 1908: <rhs><nt def="NT-StringType">StringType</nt> ! 1909: | <nt def="NT-TokenizedType">TokenizedType</nt> ! 1910: | <nt def="NT-EnumeratedType">EnumeratedType</nt> ! 1911: </rhs> ! 1912: </prod> ! 1913: <prod id="NT-StringType"><lhs>StringType</lhs> ! 1914: <rhs>'CDATA'</rhs> ! 1915: </prod> ! 1916: <prod id="NT-TokenizedType"><lhs>TokenizedType</lhs> ! 1917: <rhs>'ID'</rhs> ! 1918: <vc def="id"/> ! 1919: <vc def="one-id-per-el"/> ! 1920: <vc def="id-default"/> ! 1921: <rhs>| 'IDREF'</rhs> ! 1922: <vc def="idref"/> ! 1923: <rhs>| 'IDREFS'</rhs> ! 1924: <vc def="idref"/> ! 1925: <rhs>| 'ENTITY'</rhs> ! 1926: <vc def="entname"/> ! 1927: <rhs>| 'ENTITIES'</rhs> ! 1928: <vc def="entname"/> ! 1929: <rhs>| 'NMTOKEN'</rhs> ! 1930: <vc def="nmtok"/> ! 1931: <rhs>| 'NMTOKENS'</rhs> ! 1932: <vc def="nmtok"/></prod> ! 1933: </prodgroup> ! 1934: </scrap> ! 1935: </p> ! 1936: <vcnote id="id"> ! 1937: <head>ID</head> ! 1938: <p> ! 1939: Values of type <kw>ID</kw> must match the ! 1940: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> production. ! 1941: A name must not appear more than once in ! 1942: an XML document as a value of this type; i.e., ID values must uniquely ! 1943: identify the elements which bear them. ! 1944: </p> ! 1945: </vcnote> ! 1946: <vcnote id="one-id-per-el"> ! 1947: <head>One ID per Element Type</head> ! 1948: <p>No element type may have more than one ID attribute specified.</p> ! 1949: </vcnote> ! 1950: <vcnote id="id-default"> ! 1951: <head>ID Attribute Default</head> ! 1952: <p>An ID attribute must have a declared default of <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> or ! 1953: <kw>#REQUIRED</kw>.</p> ! 1954: </vcnote> ! 1955: <vcnote id="idref"> ! 1956: <head>IDREF</head> ! 1957: <p> ! 1958: Values of type <kw>IDREF</kw> must match ! 1959: the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> production, and ! 1960: values of type <kw>IDREFS</kw> must match ! 1961: <nt def="NT-Names">Names</nt>; ! 1962: each <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> must match the value of an ID attribute on ! 1963: some element in the XML document; i.e. <kw>IDREF</kw> values must ! 1964: match the value of some ID attribute. ! 1965: </p> ! 1966: </vcnote> ! 1967: <vcnote id="entname"> ! 1968: <head>Entity Name</head> ! 1969: <p> ! 1970: Values of type <kw>ENTITY</kw> ! 1971: must match the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> production, ! 1972: values of type <kw>ENTITIES</kw> must match ! 1973: <nt def="NT-Names">Names</nt>; ! 1974: each <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> must ! 1975: match the ! 1976: name of an <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed entity</termref> declared in the ! 1977: <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>. ! 1978: </p> ! 1979: </vcnote> ! 1980: <vcnote id="nmtok"> ! 1981: <head>Name Token</head> ! 1982: <p> ! 1983: Values of type <kw>NMTOKEN</kw> must match the ! 1984: <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> production; ! 1985: values of type <kw>NMTOKENS</kw> must ! 1986: match <termref def="NT-Nmtokens">Nmtokens</termref>. ! 1987: </p> ! 1988: </vcnote> ! 1989: <!-- why? ! 1990: <p>The XML processor must normalize attribute values before ! 1991: passing them to the application, as described in ! 1992: <specref ref="AVNormalize"/>.</p>--> ! 1993: <p><termdef id="dt-enumerated" term="Enumerated Attribute Values"><term>Enumerated attributes</term> can take one ! 1994: of a list of values provided in the declaration</termdef>. There are two ! 1995: kinds of enumerated types: ! 1996: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 1997: <head>Enumerated Attribute Types</head> ! 1998: <prod id="NT-EnumeratedType"><lhs>EnumeratedType</lhs> ! 1999: <rhs><nt def="NT-NotationType">NotationType</nt> ! 2000: | <nt def="NT-Enumeration">Enumeration</nt> ! 2001: </rhs></prod> ! 2002: <prod id="NT-NotationType"><lhs>NotationType</lhs> ! 2003: <rhs>'NOTATION' ! 2004: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 2005: '(' ! 2006: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 2007: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 2008: (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '|' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 2009: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>)* ! 2010: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ')' ! 2011: </rhs> ! 2012: <vc def="notatn"/></prod> ! 2013: <prod id="NT-Enumeration"><lhs>Enumeration</lhs> ! 2014: <rhs>'(' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 2015: <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> ! 2016: (<nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '|' ! 2017: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 2018: <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt>)* ! 2019: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? ! 2020: ')'</rhs> ! 2021: <vc def="enum"/></prod> ! 2022: </scrap> ! 2023: A <kw>NOTATION</kw> attribute identifies a ! 2024: <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>, declared in the ! 2025: DTD with associated system and/or public identifiers, to ! 2026: be used in interpreting the element to which the attribute ! 2027: is attached. ! 2028: </p> ! 2029: ! 2030: <vcnote id="notatn"> ! 2031: <head>Notation Attributes</head> ! 2032: <p> ! 2033: Values of this type must match ! 2034: one of the <titleref href="Notations">notation</titleref> names included in ! 2035: the declaration; all notation names in the declaration must ! 2036: be declared. ! 2037: </p> ! 2038: </vcnote> ! 2039: <vcnote id="enum"> ! 2040: <head>Enumeration</head> ! 2041: <p> ! 2042: Values of this type ! 2043: must match one of the <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> tokens in the ! 2044: declaration. ! 2045: </p> ! 2046: </vcnote> ! 2047: <p><termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability,</termref> the same ! 2048: <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> should not occur more than once in the ! 2049: enumerated attribute types of a single element type. ! 2050: </p> ! 2051: </div3> ! 2052: ! 2053: <div3 id="sec-attr-defaults"> ! 2054: <head>Attribute Defaults</head> ! 2055: ! 2056: <p>An <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute declaration</termref> provides ! 2057: information on whether ! 2058: the attribute's presence is required, and if not, how an XML processor should ! 2059: react if a declared attribute is absent in a document. ! 2060: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2061: <head>Attribute Defaults</head> ! 2062: <prodgroup pcw4="14" pcw5="11.5"> ! 2063: <prod id="NT-DefaultDecl"><lhs>DefaultDecl</lhs> ! 2064: <rhs>'#REQUIRED' ! 2065: | '#IMPLIED' </rhs> ! 2066: <rhs>| (('#FIXED' S)? <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>)</rhs> ! 2067: <vc def="RequiredAttr"/> ! 2068: <vc def="defattrvalid"/> ! 2069: <wfc def="CleanAttrVals"/> ! 2070: <vc def="FixedAttr"/> ! 2071: </prod> ! 2072: </prodgroup> ! 2073: </scrap> ! 2074: ! 2075: </p> ! 2076: <p>In an attribute declaration, <kw>#REQUIRED</kw> means that the ! 2077: attribute must always be provided, <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> that no default ! 2078: value is provided. ! 2079: <!-- not any more!! ! 2080: <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> means that if the attribute is omitted ! 2081: from an element of this type, ! 2082: the XML processor must inform the application ! 2083: that no value was specified; no constraint is placed on the behavior ! 2084: of the application. --> ! 2085: <termdef id="dt-default" term="Attribute Default">If the ! 2086: declaration ! 2087: is neither <kw>#REQUIRED</kw> nor <kw>#IMPLIED</kw>, then the ! 2088: <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt> value contains the declared ! 2089: <term>default</term> value; the <kw>#FIXED</kw> keyword states that ! 2090: the attribute must always have the default value. ! 2091: If a default value ! 2092: is declared, when an XML processor encounters an omitted attribute, it ! 2093: is to behave as though the attribute were present with ! 2094: the declared default value.</termdef></p> ! 2095: <vcnote id="RequiredAttr"> ! 2096: <head>Required Attribute</head> ! 2097: <p>If the default declaration is the keyword <kw>#REQUIRED</kw>, then ! 2098: the attribute must be specified for ! 2099: all elements of the type in the attribute-list declaration. ! 2100: </p></vcnote> ! 2101: <vcnote id="defattrvalid"> ! 2102: <head>Attribute Default Legal</head> ! 2103: <p> ! 2104: The declared ! 2105: default value must meet the lexical constraints of the declared attribute type. ! 2106: </p> ! 2107: </vcnote> ! 2108: <vcnote id="FixedAttr"> ! 2109: <head>Fixed Attribute Default</head> ! 2110: <p>If an attribute has a default value declared with the ! 2111: <kw>#FIXED</kw> keyword, instances of that attribute must ! 2112: match the default value. ! 2113: </p></vcnote> ! 2114: ! 2115: <p>Examples of attribute-list declarations: ! 2116: <eg><!ATTLIST termdef ! 2117: id ID #REQUIRED ! 2118: name CDATA #IMPLIED> ! 2119: <!ATTLIST list ! 2120: type (bullets|ordered|glossary) "ordered"> ! 2121: <!ATTLIST form ! 2122: method CDATA #FIXED "POST"></eg></p> ! 2123: </div3> ! 2124: <div3 id="AVNormalize"> ! 2125: <head>Attribute-Value Normalization</head> ! 2126: <p>Before the value of an attribute is passed to the application ! 2127: or checked for validity, the ! 2128: XML processor must normalize it as follows: ! 2129: <ulist> ! 2130: <item><p>a character reference is processed by appending the referenced ! 2131: character to the attribute value</p></item> ! 2132: <item><p>an entity reference is processed by recursively processing the ! 2133: replacement text of the entity</p></item> ! 2134: <item><p>a whitespace character (#x20, #xD, #xA, #x9) is processed by ! 2135: appending #x20 to the normalized value, except that only a single #x20 ! 2136: is appended for a "#xD#xA" sequence that is part of an external ! 2137: parsed entity or the literal entity value of an internal parsed ! 2138: entity</p></item> ! 2139: <item><p>other characters are processed by appending them to the normalized ! 2140: value</p> ! 2141: </item></ulist> ! 2142: </p> ! 2143: <p>If the declared value is not CDATA, then the XML processor must ! 2144: further process the normalized attribute value by discarding any ! 2145: leading and trailing space (#x20) characters, and by replacing ! 2146: sequences of space (#x20) characters by a single space (#x20) ! 2147: character.</p> ! 2148: <p> ! 2149: All attributes for which no declaration has been read should be treated ! 2150: by a non-validating parser as if declared ! 2151: <kw>CDATA</kw>. ! 2152: </p> ! 2153: </div3> ! 2154: </div2> ! 2155: <div2 id="sec-condition-sect"> ! 2156: <head>Conditional Sections</head> ! 2157: <p><termdef id="dt-cond-section" term="conditional section"> ! 2158: <term>Conditional sections</term> are portions of the ! 2159: <termref def="dt-doctype">document type declaration external subset</termref> ! 2160: which are ! 2161: included in, or excluded from, the logical structure of the DTD based on ! 2162: the keyword which governs them.</termdef> ! 2163: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2164: <head>Conditional Section</head> ! 2165: <prodgroup pcw2="9" pcw4="14.5"> ! 2166: <prod id="NT-conditionalSect"><lhs>conditionalSect</lhs> ! 2167: <rhs><nt def="NT-includeSect">includeSect</nt> ! 2168: | <nt def="NT-ignoreSect">ignoreSect</nt> ! 2169: </rhs> ! 2170: </prod> ! 2171: <prod id="NT-includeSect"><lhs>includeSect</lhs> ! 2172: <rhs>'<![' S? 'INCLUDE' S? '[' ! 2173: ! 2174: <nt def="NT-extSubsetDecl">extSubsetDecl</nt> ! 2175: ']]>' ! 2176: </rhs> ! 2177: </prod> ! 2178: <prod id="NT-ignoreSect"><lhs>ignoreSect</lhs> ! 2179: <rhs>'<![' S? 'IGNORE' S? '[' ! 2180: <nt def="NT-ignoreSectContents">ignoreSectContents</nt>* ! 2181: ']]>'</rhs> ! 2182: </prod> ! 2183: ! 2184: <prod id="NT-ignoreSectContents"><lhs>ignoreSectContents</lhs> ! 2185: <rhs><nt def="NT-Ignore">Ignore</nt> ! 2186: ('<![' <nt def="NT-ignoreSectContents">ignoreSectContents</nt> ']]>' ! 2187: <nt def="NT-Ignore">Ignore</nt>)*</rhs></prod> ! 2188: <prod id="NT-Ignore"><lhs>Ignore</lhs> ! 2189: <rhs><nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* - ! 2190: (<nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>* ('<![' | ']]>') ! 2191: <nt def="NT-Char">Char</nt>*) ! 2192: </rhs></prod> ! 2193: ! 2194: </prodgroup> ! 2195: </scrap> ! 2196: </p> ! 2197: <p>Like the internal and external DTD subsets, a conditional section ! 2198: may contain one or more complete declarations, ! 2199: comments, processing instructions, ! 2200: or nested conditional sections, intermingled with white space. ! 2201: </p> ! 2202: <p>If the keyword of the ! 2203: conditional section is <kw>INCLUDE</kw>, then the contents of the conditional ! 2204: section are part of the DTD. ! 2205: If the keyword of the conditional ! 2206: section is <kw>IGNORE</kw>, then the contents of the conditional section are ! 2207: not logically part of the DTD. ! 2208: Note that for reliable parsing, the contents of even ignored ! 2209: conditional sections must be read in order to ! 2210: detect nested conditional sections and ensure that the end of the ! 2211: outermost (ignored) conditional section is properly detected. ! 2212: If a conditional section with a ! 2213: keyword of <kw>INCLUDE</kw> occurs within a larger conditional ! 2214: section with a keyword of <kw>IGNORE</kw>, both the outer and the ! 2215: inner conditional sections are ignored.</p> ! 2216: <p>If the keyword of the conditional section is a ! 2217: parameter-entity reference, the parameter entity must be replaced by its ! 2218: content before the processor decides whether to ! 2219: include or ignore the conditional section.</p> ! 2220: <p>An example: ! 2221: <eg><!ENTITY % draft 'INCLUDE' > ! 2222: <!ENTITY % final 'IGNORE' > ! 2223: ! 2224: <![%draft;[ ! 2225: <!ELEMENT book (comments*, title, body, supplements?)> ! 2226: ]]> ! 2227: <![%final;[ ! 2228: <!ELEMENT book (title, body, supplements?)> ! 2229: ]]> ! 2230: </eg> ! 2231: </p> ! 2232: </div2> ! 2233: ! 2234: ! 2235: <!-- ! 2236: <div2 id='sec-pass-to-app'> ! 2237: <head>XML Processor Treatment of Logical Structure</head> ! 2238: <p>When an XML processor encounters a start-tag, it must make ! 2239: at least the following information available to the application: ! 2240: <ulist> ! 2241: <item> ! 2242: <p>the element type's generic identifier</p> ! 2243: </item> ! 2244: <item> ! 2245: <p>the names of attributes known to apply to this element type ! 2246: (validating processors must make available names of all attributes ! 2247: declared for the element type; non-validating processors must ! 2248: make available at least the names of the attributes for which ! 2249: values are specified. ! 2250: </p> ! 2251: </item> ! 2252: </ulist> ! 2253: </p> ! 2254: </div2> ! 2255: --> ! 2256: ! 2257: </div1> ! 2258: <!-- &Entities; --> ! 2259: ! 2260: <div1 id="sec-physical-struct"> ! 2261: <head>Physical Structures</head> ! 2262: ! 2263: <p><termdef id="dt-entity" term="Entity">An XML document may consist ! 2264: of one or many storage units. These are called ! 2265: <term>entities</term>; they all have <term>content</term> and are all ! 2266: (except for the document entity, see below, and ! 2267: the <termref def="dt-doctype">external DTD subset</termref>) ! 2268: identified by <term>name</term>. ! 2269: </termdef> ! 2270: Each XML document has one entity ! 2271: called the <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, which serves ! 2272: as the starting point for the <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML ! 2273: processor</termref> and may contain the whole document.</p> ! 2274: <p>Entities may be either parsed or unparsed. ! 2275: <termdef id="dt-parsedent" term="Text Entity">A <term>parsed entity's</term> ! 2276: contents are referred to as its ! 2277: <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref>; ! 2278: this <termref def="dt-text">text</termref> is considered an ! 2279: integral part of the document.</termdef></p> ! 2280: ! 2281: <p><termdef id="dt-unparsed" term="Unparsed Entity">An ! 2282: <term>unparsed entity</term> ! 2283: is a resource whose contents may or may not be ! 2284: <termref def="dt-text">text</termref>, and if text, may not be XML. ! 2285: Each unparsed entity ! 2286: has an associated <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>, identified by name. ! 2287: Beyond a requirement ! 2288: that an XML processor make the identifiers for the entity and ! 2289: notation available to the application, ! 2290: XML places no constraints on the contents of unparsed entities.</termdef> ! 2291: </p> ! 2292: <p> ! 2293: Parsed entities are invoked by name using entity references; ! 2294: unparsed entities by name, given in the value of <kw>ENTITY</kw> ! 2295: or <kw>ENTITIES</kw> ! 2296: attributes.</p> ! 2297: <p><termdef id="gen-entity" term="general entity"><term>General entities</term> ! 2298: are entities for use within the document content. ! 2299: In this specification, general entities are sometimes referred ! 2300: to with the unqualified term <emph>entity</emph> when this leads ! 2301: to no ambiguity.</termdef> ! 2302: <termdef id="dt-PE" term="Parameter entity">Parameter entities ! 2303: are parsed entities for use within the DTD.</termdef> ! 2304: These two types of entities use different forms of reference and ! 2305: are recognized in different contexts. ! 2306: Furthermore, they occupy different namespaces; a parameter entity and ! 2307: a general entity with the same name are two distinct entities. ! 2308: </p> ! 2309: ! 2310: <div2 id="sec-references"> ! 2311: <head>Character and Entity References</head> ! 2312: <p><termdef id="dt-charref" term="Character Reference"> ! 2313: A <term>character reference</term> refers to a specific character in the ! 2314: ISO/IEC 10646 character set, for example one not directly accessible from ! 2315: available input devices. ! 2316: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2317: <head>Character Reference</head> ! 2318: <prod id="NT-CharRef"><lhs>CharRef</lhs> ! 2319: <rhs>'&#' [0-9]+ ';' </rhs> ! 2320: <rhs>| '&hcro;' [0-9a-fA-F]+ ';'</rhs> ! 2321: <wfc def="wf-Legalchar"/> ! 2322: </prod> ! 2323: </scrap> ! 2324: <wfcnote id="wf-Legalchar"> ! 2325: <head>Legal Character</head> ! 2326: <p>Characters referred to using character references must ! 2327: match the production for ! 2328: <termref def="NT-Char">Char</termref>.</p> ! 2329: </wfcnote> ! 2330: If the character reference begins with "<code>&#x</code>", the digits and ! 2331: letters up to the terminating <code>;</code> provide a hexadecimal ! 2332: representation of the character's code point in ISO/IEC 10646. ! 2333: If it begins just with "<code>&#</code>", the digits up to the terminating ! 2334: <code>;</code> provide a decimal representation of the character's ! 2335: code point. ! 2336: </termdef> ! 2337: </p> ! 2338: <p><termdef id="dt-entref" term="Entity Reference">An <term>entity ! 2339: reference</term> refers to the content of a named entity.</termdef> ! 2340: <termdef id="dt-GERef" term="General Entity Reference">References to ! 2341: parsed general entities ! 2342: use ampersand (<code>&</code>) and semicolon (<code>;</code>) as ! 2343: delimiters.</termdef> ! 2344: <termdef id="dt-PERef" term="Parameter-entity reference"> ! 2345: <term>Parameter-entity references</term> use percent-sign (<code>%</code>) and ! 2346: semicolon ! 2347: (<code>;</code>) as delimiters.</termdef> ! 2348: </p> ! 2349: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2350: <head>Entity Reference</head> ! 2351: <prod id="NT-Reference"><lhs>Reference</lhs> ! 2352: <rhs><nt def="NT-EntityRef">EntityRef</nt> ! 2353: | <nt def="NT-CharRef">CharRef</nt></rhs></prod> ! 2354: <prod id="NT-EntityRef"><lhs>EntityRef</lhs> ! 2355: <rhs>'&' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ';'</rhs> ! 2356: <wfc def="wf-entdeclared"/> ! 2357: <vc def="vc-entdeclared"/> ! 2358: <wfc def="textent"/> ! 2359: <wfc def="norecursion"/> ! 2360: </prod> ! 2361: <prod id="NT-PEReference"><lhs>PEReference</lhs> ! 2362: <rhs>'%' <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ';'</rhs> ! 2363: <vc def="vc-entdeclared"/> ! 2364: <wfc def="norecursion"/> ! 2365: <wfc def="indtd"/> ! 2366: </prod> ! 2367: </scrap> ! 2368: ! 2369: <wfcnote id="wf-entdeclared"> ! 2370: <head>Entity Declared</head> ! 2371: <p>In a document without any DTD, a document with only an internal ! 2372: DTD subset which contains no parameter entity references, or a document with ! 2373: "<code>standalone='yes'</code>", ! 2374: the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> given in the entity reference must ! 2375: <termref def="dt-match">match</termref> that in an ! 2376: <titleref href="sec-entity-decl">entity declaration</titleref>, except that ! 2377: well-formed documents need not declare ! 2378: any of the following entities: &magicents;. ! 2379: The declaration of a parameter entity must precede any reference to it. ! 2380: Similarly, the declaration of a general entity must precede any ! 2381: reference to it which appears in a default value in an attribute-list ! 2382: declaration.</p> ! 2383: <p>Note that if entities are declared in the external subset or in ! 2384: external parameter entities, a non-validating processor is ! 2385: <titleref href="include-if-valid">not obligated to</titleref> read ! 2386: and process their declarations; for such documents, the rule that ! 2387: an entity must be declared is a well-formedness constraint only ! 2388: if <titleref href="sec-rmd">standalone='yes'</titleref>.</p> ! 2389: </wfcnote> ! 2390: <vcnote id="vc-entdeclared"> ! 2391: <head>Entity Declared</head> ! 2392: <p>In a document with an external subset or external parameter ! 2393: entities with "<code>standalone='no'</code>", ! 2394: the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> given in the entity reference must <termref def="dt-match">match</termref> that in an ! 2395: <titleref href="sec-entity-decl">entity declaration</titleref>. ! 2396: For interoperability, valid documents should declare the entities ! 2397: &magicents;, in the form ! 2398: specified in <specref ref="sec-predefined-ent"/>. ! 2399: The declaration of a parameter entity must precede any reference to it. ! 2400: Similarly, the declaration of a general entity must precede any ! 2401: reference to it which appears in a default value in an attribute-list ! 2402: declaration.</p> ! 2403: </vcnote> ! 2404: <!-- FINAL EDIT: is this duplication too clumsy? --> ! 2405: <wfcnote id="textent"> ! 2406: <head>Parsed Entity</head> ! 2407: <p> ! 2408: An entity reference must not contain the name of an <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed entity</termref>. Unparsed entities may be referred ! 2409: to only in <termref def="dt-attrval">attribute values</termref> declared to ! 2410: be of type <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>. ! 2411: </p> ! 2412: </wfcnote> ! 2413: <wfcnote id="norecursion"> ! 2414: <head>No Recursion</head> ! 2415: <p> ! 2416: A parsed entity must not contain a recursive reference to itself, ! 2417: either directly or indirectly. ! 2418: </p> ! 2419: </wfcnote> ! 2420: <wfcnote id="indtd"> ! 2421: <head>In DTD</head> ! 2422: <p> ! 2423: Parameter-entity references may only appear in the ! 2424: <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>. ! 2425: </p> ! 2426: </wfcnote> ! 2427: <p>Examples of character and entity references: ! 2428: <eg>Type <key>less-than</key> (&hcro;3C;) to save options. ! 2429: This document was prepared on &docdate; and ! 2430: is classified &security-level;.</eg></p> ! 2431: <p>Example of a parameter-entity reference: ! 2432: <eg><![CDATA[<!-- declare the parameter entity "ISOLat2"... --> ! 2433: <!ENTITY % ISOLat2 ! 2434: SYSTEM "http://www.xml.com/iso/isolat2-xml.entities" > ! 2435: <!-- ... now reference it. --> ! 2436: %ISOLat2;]]></eg></p> ! 2437: </div2> ! 2438: ! 2439: <div2 id="sec-entity-decl"> ! 2440: <head>Entity Declarations</head> ! 2441: ! 2442: <p><termdef id="dt-entdecl" term="entity declaration"> ! 2443: Entities are declared thus: ! 2444: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2445: <head>Entity Declaration</head> ! 2446: <prodgroup pcw2="5" pcw4="18.5"> ! 2447: <prod id="NT-EntityDecl"><lhs>EntityDecl</lhs> ! 2448: <rhs><nt def="NT-GEDecl">GEDecl</nt><!--</rhs><com>General entities</com> ! 2449: <rhs>--> | <nt def="NT-PEDecl">PEDecl</nt></rhs> ! 2450: <!--<com>Parameter entities</com>--> ! 2451: </prod> ! 2452: <prod id="NT-GEDecl"><lhs>GEDecl</lhs> ! 2453: <rhs>'<!ENTITY' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 2454: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-EntityDef">EntityDef</nt> ! 2455: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs> ! 2456: </prod> ! 2457: <prod id="NT-PEDecl"><lhs>PEDecl</lhs> ! 2458: <rhs>'<!ENTITY' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> '%' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 2459: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 2460: <nt def="NT-PEDef">PEDef</nt> <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs> ! 2461: <!--<com>Parameter entities</com>--> ! 2462: </prod> ! 2463: <prod id="NT-EntityDef"><lhs>EntityDef</lhs> ! 2464: <rhs><nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt> ! 2465: <!--</rhs> ! 2466: <rhs>-->| (<nt def="NT-ExternalID">ExternalID</nt> ! 2467: <nt def="NT-NDataDecl">NDataDecl</nt>?)</rhs> ! 2468: <!-- <nt def='NT-ExternalDef'>ExternalDef</nt></rhs> --> ! 2469: </prod> ! 2470: <!-- FINAL EDIT: what happened to WFs here? --> ! 2471: <prod id="NT-PEDef"><lhs>PEDef</lhs> ! 2472: <rhs><nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt> ! 2473: | <nt def="NT-ExternalID">ExternalID</nt></rhs></prod> ! 2474: </prodgroup> ! 2475: </scrap> ! 2476: The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> identifies the entity in an ! 2477: <termref def="dt-entref">entity reference</termref> or, in the case of an ! 2478: unparsed entity, in the value of an <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw> ! 2479: attribute. ! 2480: If the same entity is declared more than once, the first declaration ! 2481: encountered is binding; at user option, an XML processor may issue a ! 2482: warning if entities are declared multiple times.</termdef> ! 2483: </p> ! 2484: ! 2485: <div3 id="sec-internal-ent"> ! 2486: <head>Internal Entities</head> ! 2487: ! 2488: <p><termdef id="dt-internent" term="Internal Entity Replacement Text">If ! 2489: the entity definition is an ! 2490: <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>, ! 2491: the defined entity is called an <term>internal entity</term>. ! 2492: There is no separate physical ! 2493: storage object, and the content of the entity is given in the ! 2494: declaration. </termdef> ! 2495: Note that some processing of entity and character references in the ! 2496: <termref def="dt-litentval">literal entity value</termref> may be required to ! 2497: produce the correct <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement ! 2498: text</termref>: see <specref ref="intern-replacement"/>. ! 2499: </p> ! 2500: <p>An internal entity is a <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed ! 2501: entity</termref>.</p> ! 2502: <p>Example of an internal entity declaration: ! 2503: <eg><!ENTITY Pub-Status "This is a pre-release of the ! 2504: specification."></eg></p> ! 2505: </div3> ! 2506: ! 2507: <div3 id="sec-external-ent"> ! 2508: <head>External Entities</head> ! 2509: ! 2510: <p><termdef id="dt-extent" term="External Entity">If the entity is not ! 2511: internal, it is an <term>external ! 2512: entity</term>, declared as follows: ! 2513: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2514: <head>External Entity Declaration</head> ! 2515: <!-- ! 2516: <prod id='NT-ExternalDef'><lhs>ExternalDef</lhs> ! 2517: <rhs></prod> --> ! 2518: <prod id="NT-ExternalID"><lhs>ExternalID</lhs> ! 2519: <rhs>'SYSTEM' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 2520: <nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt></rhs> ! 2521: <rhs>| 'PUBLIC' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 2522: <nt def="NT-PubidLiteral">PubidLiteral</nt> ! 2523: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 2524: <nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt> ! 2525: </rhs> ! 2526: </prod> ! 2527: <prod id="NT-NDataDecl"><lhs>NDataDecl</lhs> ! 2528: <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> 'NDATA' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 2529: <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt></rhs> ! 2530: <vc def="not-declared"/></prod> ! 2531: </scrap> ! 2532: If the <nt def="NT-NDataDecl">NDataDecl</nt> is present, this is a ! 2533: general <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed ! 2534: entity</termref>; otherwise it is a parsed entity.</termdef></p> ! 2535: <vcnote id="not-declared"> ! 2536: <head>Notation Declared</head> ! 2537: <p> ! 2538: The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> must match the declared name of a ! 2539: <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>. ! 2540: </p> ! 2541: </vcnote> ! 2542: <p><termdef id="dt-sysid" term="System Identifier">The ! 2543: <nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt> ! 2544: is called the entity's <term>system identifier</term>. It is a URI, ! 2545: which may be used to retrieve the entity.</termdef> ! 2546: Note that the hash mark (<code>#</code>) and fragment identifier ! 2547: frequently used with URIs are not, formally, part of the URI itself; ! 2548: an XML processor may signal an error if a fragment identifier is ! 2549: given as part of a system identifier. ! 2550: Unless otherwise provided by information outside the scope of this ! 2551: specification (e.g. a special XML element type defined by a particular ! 2552: DTD, or a processing instruction defined by a particular application ! 2553: specification), relative URIs are relative to the location of the ! 2554: resource within which the entity declaration occurs. ! 2555: A URI might thus be relative to the ! 2556: <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, to the entity ! 2557: containing the <termref def="dt-doctype">external DTD subset</termref>, ! 2558: or to some other <termref def="dt-extent">external parameter entity</termref>. ! 2559: </p> ! 2560: <p>An XML processor should handle a non-ASCII character in a URI by ! 2561: representing the character in UTF-8 as one or more bytes, and then ! 2562: escaping these bytes with the URI escaping mechanism (i.e., by ! 2563: converting each byte to %HH, where HH is the hexadecimal notation of the ! 2564: byte value).</p> ! 2565: <p><termdef id="dt-pubid" term="Public identifier"> ! 2566: In addition to a system identifier, an external identifier may ! 2567: include a <term>public identifier</term>.</termdef> ! 2568: An XML processor attempting to retrieve the entity's content may use the public ! 2569: identifier to try to generate an alternative URI. If the processor ! 2570: is unable to do so, it must use the URI specified in the system ! 2571: literal. Before a match is attempted, all strings ! 2572: of white space in the public identifier must be normalized to single space characters (#x20), ! 2573: and leading and trailing white space must be removed.</p> ! 2574: <p>Examples of external entity declarations: ! 2575: <eg><!ENTITY open-hatch ! 2576: SYSTEM "http://www.textuality.com/boilerplate/OpenHatch.xml"> ! 2577: <!ENTITY open-hatch ! 2578: PUBLIC "-//Textuality//TEXT Standard open-hatch boilerplate//EN" ! 2579: "http://www.textuality.com/boilerplate/OpenHatch.xml"> ! 2580: <!ENTITY hatch-pic ! 2581: SYSTEM "../grafix/OpenHatch.gif" ! 2582: NDATA gif ></eg></p> ! 2583: </div3> ! 2584: ! 2585: </div2> ! 2586: ! 2587: <div2 id="TextEntities"> ! 2588: <head>Parsed Entities</head> ! 2589: <div3 id="sec-TextDecl"> ! 2590: <head>The Text Declaration</head> ! 2591: <p>External parsed entities may each begin with a <term>text ! 2592: declaration</term>. ! 2593: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2594: <head>Text Declaration</head> ! 2595: <prodgroup pcw4="12.5" pcw5="13"> ! 2596: <prod id="NT-TextDecl"><lhs>TextDecl</lhs> ! 2597: <rhs>&xmlpio; ! 2598: <nt def="NT-VersionInfo">VersionInfo</nt>? ! 2599: <nt def="NT-EncodingDecl">EncodingDecl</nt> ! 2600: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? &pic;</rhs> ! 2601: </prod> ! 2602: </prodgroup> ! 2603: </scrap> ! 2604: </p> ! 2605: <p>The text declaration must be provided literally, not ! 2606: by reference to a parsed entity. ! 2607: No text declaration may appear at any position other than the beginning of ! 2608: an external parsed entity.</p> ! 2609: </div3> ! 2610: <div3 id="wf-entities"> ! 2611: <head>Well-Formed Parsed Entities</head> ! 2612: <p>The document entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled ! 2613: <nt def="NT-document">document</nt>. ! 2614: An external general ! 2615: parsed entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled ! 2616: <nt def="NT-extParsedEnt">extParsedEnt</nt>. ! 2617: An external parameter ! 2618: entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled ! 2619: <nt def="NT-extPE">extPE</nt>. ! 2620: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2621: <head>Well-Formed External Parsed Entity</head> ! 2622: <prod id="NT-extParsedEnt"><lhs>extParsedEnt</lhs> ! 2623: <rhs><nt def="NT-TextDecl">TextDecl</nt>? ! 2624: <nt def="NT-content">content</nt></rhs> ! 2625: </prod> ! 2626: <prod id="NT-extPE"><lhs>extPE</lhs> ! 2627: <rhs><nt def="NT-TextDecl">TextDecl</nt>? ! 2628: <nt def="NT-extSubsetDecl">extSubsetDecl</nt></rhs> ! 2629: </prod> ! 2630: </scrap> ! 2631: An internal general parsed entity is well-formed if its replacement text ! 2632: matches the production labeled ! 2633: <nt def="NT-content">content</nt>. ! 2634: All internal parameter entities are well-formed by definition. ! 2635: </p> ! 2636: <p>A consequence of well-formedness in entities is that the logical ! 2637: and physical structures in an XML document are properly nested; no ! 2638: <termref def="dt-stag">start-tag</termref>, ! 2639: <termref def="dt-etag">end-tag</termref>, ! 2640: <termref def="dt-empty">empty-element tag</termref>, ! 2641: <termref def="dt-element">element</termref>, ! 2642: <termref def="dt-comment">comment</termref>, ! 2643: <termref def="dt-pi">processing instruction</termref>, ! 2644: <termref def="dt-charref">character ! 2645: reference</termref>, or ! 2646: <termref def="dt-entref">entity reference</termref> ! 2647: can begin in one entity and end in another.</p> ! 2648: </div3> ! 2649: <div3 id="charencoding"> ! 2650: <head>Character Encoding in Entities</head> ! 2651: ! 2652: <p>Each external parsed entity in an XML document may use a different ! 2653: encoding for its characters. All XML processors must be able to read ! 2654: entities in either UTF-8 or UTF-16. ! 2655: ! 2656: </p> ! 2657: <p>Entities encoded in UTF-16 must ! 2658: begin with the Byte Order Mark described by ISO/IEC 10646 Annex E and ! 2659: Unicode Appendix B (the ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE character, #xFEFF). ! 2660: This is an encoding signature, not part of either the markup or the ! 2661: character data of the XML document. ! 2662: XML processors must be able to use this character to ! 2663: differentiate between UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded documents.</p> ! 2664: <p>Although an XML processor is required to read only entities in ! 2665: the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings, it is recognized that other encodings are ! 2666: used around the world, and it may be desired for XML processors ! 2667: to read entities that use them. ! 2668: Parsed entities which are stored in an encoding other than ! 2669: UTF-8 or UTF-16 must begin with a <titleref href="TextDecl">text ! 2670: declaration</titleref> containing an encoding declaration: ! 2671: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 2672: <head>Encoding Declaration</head> ! 2673: <prod id="NT-EncodingDecl"><lhs>EncodingDecl</lhs> ! 2674: <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 2675: 'encoding' <nt def="NT-Eq">Eq</nt> ! 2676: ('"' <nt def="NT-EncName">EncName</nt> '"' | ! 2677: "'" <nt def="NT-EncName">EncName</nt> "'" ) ! 2678: </rhs> ! 2679: </prod> ! 2680: <prod id="NT-EncName"><lhs>EncName</lhs> ! 2681: <rhs>[A-Za-z] ([A-Za-z0-9._] | '-')*</rhs> ! 2682: <com>Encoding name contains only Latin characters</com> ! 2683: </prod> ! 2684: </scrap> ! 2685: In the <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, the encoding ! 2686: declaration is part of the <termref def="dt-xmldecl">XML declaration</termref>. ! 2687: The <nt def="NT-EncName">EncName</nt> is the name of the encoding used. ! 2688: </p> ! 2689: <!-- FINAL EDIT: check name of IANA and charset names --> ! 2690: <p>In an encoding declaration, the values ! 2691: "<code>UTF-8</code>", ! 2692: "<code>UTF-16</code>", ! 2693: "<code>ISO-10646-UCS-2</code>", and ! 2694: "<code>ISO-10646-UCS-4</code>" should be ! 2695: used for the various encodings and transformations of Unicode / ! 2696: ISO/IEC 10646, the values ! 2697: "<code>ISO-8859-1</code>", ! 2698: "<code>ISO-8859-2</code>", ... ! 2699: "<code>ISO-8859-9</code>" should be used for the parts of ISO 8859, and ! 2700: the values ! 2701: "<code>ISO-2022-JP</code>", ! 2702: "<code>Shift_JIS</code>", and ! 2703: "<code>EUC-JP</code>" ! 2704: should be used for the various encoded forms of JIS X-0208-1997. XML ! 2705: processors may recognize other encodings; it is recommended that ! 2706: character encodings registered (as <emph>charset</emph>s) ! 2707: with the Internet Assigned Numbers ! 2708: Authority <bibref ref="IANA"/>, other than those just listed, should be ! 2709: referred to ! 2710: using their registered names. ! 2711: Note that these registered names are defined to be ! 2712: case-insensitive, so processors wishing to match against them ! 2713: should do so in a case-insensitive ! 2714: way.</p> ! 2715: <p>In the absence of information provided by an external ! 2716: transport protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME), ! 2717: it is an <termref def="dt-error">error</termref> for an entity including ! 2718: an encoding declaration to be presented to the XML processor ! 2719: in an encoding other than that named in the declaration, ! 2720: for an encoding declaration to occur other than at the beginning ! 2721: of an external entity, or for ! 2722: an entity which begins with neither a Byte Order Mark nor an encoding ! 2723: declaration to use an encoding other than UTF-8. ! 2724: Note that since ASCII ! 2725: is a subset of UTF-8, ordinary ASCII entities do not strictly need ! 2726: an encoding declaration.</p> ! 2727: ! 2728: <p>It is a <termref def="dt-fatal">fatal error</termref> when an XML processor ! 2729: encounters an entity with an encoding that it is unable to process.</p> ! 2730: <p>Examples of encoding declarations: ! 2731: <eg><?xml encoding='UTF-8'?> ! 2732: <?xml encoding='EUC-JP'?></eg></p> ! 2733: </div3> ! 2734: </div2> ! 2735: <div2 id="entproc"> ! 2736: <head>XML Processor Treatment of Entities and References</head> ! 2737: <p>The table below summarizes the contexts in which character references, ! 2738: entity references, and invocations of unparsed entities might appear and the ! 2739: required behavior of an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref> in ! 2740: each case. ! 2741: The labels in the leftmost column describe the recognition context: ! 2742: <glist> ! 2743: <gitem><label>Reference in Content</label> ! 2744: <def><p>as a reference ! 2745: anywhere after the <termref def="dt-stag">start-tag</termref> and ! 2746: before the <termref def="dt-etag">end-tag</termref> of an element; corresponds ! 2747: to the nonterminal <nt def="NT-content">content</nt>.</p></def> ! 2748: </gitem> ! 2749: <gitem> ! 2750: <label>Reference in Attribute Value</label> ! 2751: <def><p>as a reference within either the value of an attribute in a ! 2752: <termref def="dt-stag">start-tag</termref>, or a default ! 2753: value in an <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute declaration</termref>; ! 2754: corresponds to the nonterminal ! 2755: <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>.</p></def></gitem> ! 2756: <gitem> ! 2757: <label>Occurs as Attribute Value</label> ! 2758: <def><p>as a <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt>, not a reference, appearing either as ! 2759: the value of an ! 2760: attribute which has been declared as type <kw>ENTITY</kw>, or as one of ! 2761: the space-separated tokens in the value of an attribute which has been ! 2762: declared as type <kw>ENTITIES</kw>.</p> ! 2763: </def></gitem> ! 2764: <gitem><label>Reference in Entity Value</label> ! 2765: <def><p>as a reference ! 2766: within a parameter or internal entity's ! 2767: <termref def="dt-litentval">literal entity value</termref> in ! 2768: the entity's declaration; corresponds to the nonterminal ! 2769: <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>.</p></def></gitem> ! 2770: <gitem><label>Reference in DTD</label> ! 2771: <def><p>as a reference within either the internal or external subsets of the ! 2772: <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>, but outside ! 2773: of an <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt> or ! 2774: <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>.</p></def> ! 2775: </gitem> ! 2776: </glist></p> ! 2777: <htable border="1" cellpadding="7" align="center"> ! 2778: <htbody> ! 2779: <tr><td bgcolor="&cellback;" rowspan="2" colspan="1"/> ! 2780: <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="center" valign="bottom" colspan="4">Entity Type</td> ! 2781: <td bgcolor="&cellback;" rowspan="2" align="center">Character</td> ! 2782: </tr> ! 2783: <tr align="center" valign="bottom"> ! 2784: <td bgcolor="&cellback;">Parameter</td> ! 2785: <td bgcolor="&cellback;">Internal ! 2786: General</td> ! 2787: <td bgcolor="&cellback;">External Parsed ! 2788: General</td> ! 2789: <td bgcolor="&cellback;">Unparsed</td> ! 2790: </tr> ! 2791: <tr align="center" valign="middle"> ! 2792: ! 2793: <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Reference ! 2794: in Content</td> ! 2795: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Not recognized</titleref></td> ! 2796: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="included">Included</titleref></td> ! 2797: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="include-if-valid">Included if validating</titleref></td> ! 2798: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2799: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="included">Included</titleref></td> ! 2800: </tr> ! 2801: <tr align="center" valign="middle"> ! 2802: <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Reference ! 2803: in Attribute Value</td> ! 2804: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Not recognized</titleref></td> ! 2805: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="inliteral">Included in literal</titleref></td> ! 2806: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2807: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2808: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="included">Included</titleref></td> ! 2809: </tr> ! 2810: <tr align="center" valign="middle"> ! 2811: <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Occurs as ! 2812: Attribute Value</td> ! 2813: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Not recognized</titleref></td> ! 2814: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2815: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not-recognized">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2816: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="notify">Notify</titleref></td> ! 2817: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="not recognized">Not recognized</titleref></td> ! 2818: </tr> ! 2819: <tr align="center" valign="middle"> ! 2820: <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Reference ! 2821: in EntityValue</td> ! 2822: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="inliteral">Included in literal</titleref></td> ! 2823: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="bypass">Bypassed</titleref></td> ! 2824: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="bypass">Bypassed</titleref></td> ! 2825: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2826: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="included">Included</titleref></td> ! 2827: </tr> ! 2828: <tr align="center" valign="middle"> ! 2829: <td bgcolor="&cellback;" align="right">Reference ! 2830: in DTD</td> ! 2831: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="as-PE">Included as PE</titleref></td> ! 2832: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2833: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2834: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2835: <td bgcolor="&cellback;"><titleref href="forbidden">Forbidden</titleref></td> ! 2836: </tr> ! 2837: </htbody> ! 2838: </htable> ! 2839: <div3 id="not-recognized"> ! 2840: <head>Not Recognized</head> ! 2841: <p>Outside the DTD, the <code>%</code> character has no ! 2842: special significance; thus, what would be parameter entity references in the ! 2843: DTD are not recognized as markup in <nt def="NT-content">content</nt>. ! 2844: Similarly, the names of unparsed entities are not recognized except ! 2845: when they appear in the value of an appropriately declared attribute. ! 2846: </p> ! 2847: </div3> ! 2848: <div3 id="included"> ! 2849: <head>Included</head> ! 2850: <p><termdef id="dt-include" term="Include">An entity is ! 2851: <term>included</term> when its ! 2852: <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> is retrieved ! 2853: and processed, in place of the reference itself, ! 2854: as though it were part of the document at the location the ! 2855: reference was recognized. ! 2856: The replacement text may contain both ! 2857: <termref def="dt-chardata">character data</termref> ! 2858: and (except for parameter entities) <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>, ! 2859: which must be recognized in ! 2860: the usual way, except that the replacement text of entities used to escape ! 2861: markup delimiters (the entities &magicents;) is always treated as ! 2862: data. (The string "<code>AT&amp;T;</code>" expands to ! 2863: "<code>AT&T;</code>" and the remaining ampersand is not recognized ! 2864: as an entity-reference delimiter.) ! 2865: A character reference is <term>included</term> when the indicated ! 2866: character is processed in place of the reference itself. ! 2867: </termdef></p> ! 2868: </div3> ! 2869: <div3 id="include-if-valid"> ! 2870: <head>Included If Validating</head> ! 2871: <p>When an XML processor recognizes a reference to a parsed entity, in order ! 2872: to <termref def="dt-valid">validate</termref> ! 2873: the document, the processor must ! 2874: <termref def="dt-include">include</termref> its ! 2875: replacement text. ! 2876: If the entity is external, and the processor is not ! 2877: attempting to validate the XML document, the ! 2878: processor <termref def="dt-may">may</termref>, but need not, ! 2879: include the entity's replacement text. ! 2880: If a non-validating parser does not include the replacement text, ! 2881: it must inform the application that it recognized, but did not ! 2882: read, the entity.</p> ! 2883: <p>This rule is based on the recognition that the automatic inclusion ! 2884: provided by the SGML and XML entity mechanism, primarily designed ! 2885: to support modularity in authoring, is not necessarily ! 2886: appropriate for other applications, in particular document browsing. ! 2887: Browsers, for example, when encountering an external parsed entity reference, ! 2888: might choose to provide a visual indication of the entity's ! 2889: presence and retrieve it for display only on demand. ! 2890: </p> ! 2891: </div3> ! 2892: <div3 id="forbidden"> ! 2893: <head>Forbidden</head> ! 2894: <p>The following are forbidden, and constitute ! 2895: <termref def="dt-fatal">fatal</termref> errors: ! 2896: <ulist> ! 2897: <item><p>the appearance of a reference to an ! 2898: <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed entity</termref>. ! 2899: </p></item> ! 2900: <item><p>the appearance of any character or general-entity reference in the ! 2901: DTD except within an <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt> or ! 2902: <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>.</p></item> ! 2903: <item><p>a reference to an external entity in an attribute value.</p> ! 2904: </item> ! 2905: </ulist> ! 2906: </p> ! 2907: </div3> ! 2908: <div3 id="inliteral"> ! 2909: <head>Included in Literal</head> ! 2910: <p>When an <termref def="dt-entref">entity reference</termref> appears in an ! 2911: attribute value, or a parameter entity reference appears in a literal entity ! 2912: value, its <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement text</termref> is ! 2913: processed in place of the reference itself as though it ! 2914: were part of the document at the location the reference was recognized, ! 2915: except that a single or double quote character in the replacement text ! 2916: is always treated as a normal data character and will not terminate the ! 2917: literal. ! 2918: For example, this is well-formed: ! 2919: <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY % YN '"Yes"' > ! 2920: <!ENTITY WhatHeSaid "He said &YN;" >]]></eg> ! 2921: while this is not: ! 2922: <eg><!ENTITY EndAttr "27'" > ! 2923: <element attribute='a-&EndAttr;></eg> ! 2924: </p></div3> ! 2925: <div3 id="notify"> ! 2926: <head>Notify</head> ! 2927: <p>When the name of an <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed ! 2928: entity</termref> appears as a token in the ! 2929: value of an attribute of declared type <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>, ! 2930: a validating processor must inform the ! 2931: application of the <termref def="dt-sysid">system</termref> ! 2932: and <termref def="dt-pubid">public</termref> (if any) ! 2933: identifiers for both the entity and its associated ! 2934: <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>.</p> ! 2935: </div3> ! 2936: <div3 id="bypass"> ! 2937: <head>Bypassed</head> ! 2938: <p>When a general entity reference appears in the ! 2939: <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt> in an entity declaration, ! 2940: it is bypassed and left as is.</p> ! 2941: </div3> ! 2942: <div3 id="as-PE"> ! 2943: <head>Included as PE</head> ! 2944: <p>Just as with external parsed entities, parameter entities ! 2945: need only be <titleref href="include-if-valid">included if ! 2946: validating</titleref>. ! 2947: When a parameter-entity reference is recognized in the DTD ! 2948: and included, its ! 2949: <termref def="dt-repltext">replacement ! 2950: text</termref> is enlarged by the attachment of one leading and one following ! 2951: space (#x20) character; the intent is to constrain the replacement ! 2952: text of parameter ! 2953: entities to contain an integral number of grammatical tokens in the DTD. ! 2954: </p> ! 2955: </div3> ! 2956: ! 2957: </div2> ! 2958: <div2 id="intern-replacement"> ! 2959: <head>Construction of Internal Entity Replacement Text</head> ! 2960: <p>In discussing the treatment ! 2961: of internal entities, it is ! 2962: useful to distinguish two forms of the entity's value. ! 2963: <termdef id="dt-litentval" term="Literal Entity Value">The <term>literal ! 2964: entity value</term> is the quoted string actually ! 2965: present in the entity declaration, corresponding to the ! 2966: non-terminal <nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>.</termdef> ! 2967: <termdef id="dt-repltext" term="Replacement Text">The <term>replacement ! 2968: text</term> is the content of the entity, after ! 2969: replacement of character references and parameter-entity ! 2970: references. ! 2971: </termdef></p> ! 2972: ! 2973: <p>The literal entity value ! 2974: as given in an internal entity declaration ! 2975: (<nt def="NT-EntityValue">EntityValue</nt>) may contain character, ! 2976: parameter-entity, and general-entity references. ! 2977: Such references must be contained entirely within the ! 2978: literal entity value. ! 2979: The actual replacement text that is ! 2980: <termref def="dt-include">included</termref> as described above ! 2981: must contain the <emph>replacement text</emph> of any ! 2982: parameter entities referred to, and must contain the character ! 2983: referred to, in place of any character references in the ! 2984: literal entity value; however, ! 2985: general-entity references must be left as-is, unexpanded. ! 2986: For example, given the following declarations: ! 2987: ! 2988: <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY % pub "Éditions Gallimard" > ! 2989: <!ENTITY rights "All rights reserved" > ! 2990: <!ENTITY book "La Peste: Albert Camus, ! 2991: © 1947 %pub;. &rights;" >]]></eg> ! 2992: then the replacement text for the entity "<code>book</code>" is: ! 2993: <eg>La Peste: Albert Camus, ! 2994: Š 1947 Éditions Gallimard. &rights;</eg> ! 2995: The general-entity reference "<code>&rights;</code>" would be expanded ! 2996: should the reference "<code>&book;</code>" appear in the document's ! 2997: content or an attribute value.</p> ! 2998: <p>These simple rules may have complex interactions; for a detailed ! 2999: discussion of a difficult example, see ! 3000: <specref ref="sec-entexpand"/>. ! 3001: </p> ! 3002: ! 3003: </div2> ! 3004: <div2 id="sec-predefined-ent"> ! 3005: <head>Predefined Entities</head> ! 3006: <p><termdef id="dt-escape" term="escape">Entity and character ! 3007: references can both be used to <term>escape</term> the left angle bracket, ! 3008: ampersand, and other delimiters. A set of general entities ! 3009: (&magicents;) is specified for this purpose. ! 3010: Numeric character references may also be used; they are ! 3011: expanded immediately when recognized and must be treated as ! 3012: character data, so the numeric character references ! 3013: "<code>&#60;</code>" and "<code>&#38;</code>" may be used to ! 3014: escape <code><</code> and <code>&</code> when they occur ! 3015: in character data.</termdef></p> ! 3016: <p>All XML processors must recognize these entities whether they ! 3017: are declared or not. ! 3018: <termref def="dt-interop">For interoperability</termref>, ! 3019: valid XML documents should declare these ! 3020: entities, like any others, before using them. ! 3021: If the entities in question are declared, they must be declared ! 3022: as internal entities whose replacement text is the single ! 3023: character being escaped or a character reference to ! 3024: that character, as shown below. ! 3025: <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY lt "&#60;"> ! 3026: <!ENTITY gt ">"> ! 3027: <!ENTITY amp "&#38;"> ! 3028: <!ENTITY apos "'"> ! 3029: <!ENTITY quot """> ! 3030: ]]></eg> ! 3031: Note that the <code><</code> and <code>&</code> characters ! 3032: in the declarations of "<code>lt</code>" and "<code>amp</code>" ! 3033: are doubly escaped to meet the requirement that entity replacement ! 3034: be well-formed. ! 3035: </p> ! 3036: </div2> ! 3037: ! 3038: <div2 id="Notations"> ! 3039: <head>Notation Declarations</head> ! 3040: ! 3041: <p><termdef id="dt-notation" term="Notation"><term>Notations</term> identify by ! 3042: name the format of <termref def="dt-extent">unparsed ! 3043: entities</termref>, the ! 3044: format of elements which bear a notation attribute, ! 3045: or the application to which ! 3046: a <termref def="dt-pi">processing instruction</termref> is ! 3047: addressed.</termdef></p> ! 3048: <p><termdef id="dt-notdecl" term="Notation Declaration"> ! 3049: <term>Notation declarations</term> ! 3050: provide a name for the notation, for use in ! 3051: entity and attribute-list declarations and in attribute specifications, ! 3052: and an external identifier for the notation which may allow an XML ! 3053: processor or its client application to locate a helper application ! 3054: capable of processing data in the given notation. ! 3055: <scrap lang="ebnf"> ! 3056: <head>Notation Declarations</head> ! 3057: <prod id="NT-NotationDecl"><lhs>NotationDecl</lhs> ! 3058: <rhs>'<!NOTATION' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> ! 3059: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 3060: (<nt def="NT-ExternalID">ExternalID</nt> | ! 3061: <nt def="NT-PublicID">PublicID</nt>) ! 3062: <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>? '>'</rhs></prod> ! 3063: <prod id="NT-PublicID"><lhs>PublicID</lhs> ! 3064: <rhs>'PUBLIC' <nt def="NT-S">S</nt> ! 3065: <nt def="NT-PubidLiteral">PubidLiteral</nt> ! 3066: </rhs></prod> ! 3067: </scrap> ! 3068: </termdef></p> ! 3069: <p>XML processors must provide applications with the name and external ! 3070: identifier(s) of any notation declared and referred to in an attribute ! 3071: value, attribute definition, or entity declaration. They may ! 3072: additionally resolve the external identifier into the ! 3073: <termref def="dt-sysid">system identifier</termref>, ! 3074: file name, or other information needed to allow the ! 3075: application to call a processor for data in the notation described. (It ! 3076: is not an error, however, for XML documents to declare and refer to ! 3077: notations for which notation-specific applications are not available on ! 3078: the system where the XML processor or application is running.)</p> ! 3079: </div2> ! 3080: ! 3081: ! 3082: <div2 id="sec-doc-entity"> ! 3083: <head>Document Entity</head> ! 3084: ! 3085: <p><termdef id="dt-docent" term="Document Entity">The <term>document ! 3086: entity</term> serves as the root of the entity ! 3087: tree and a starting-point for an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML ! 3088: processor</termref>.</termdef> ! 3089: This specification does ! 3090: not specify how the document entity is to be located by an XML ! 3091: processor; unlike other entities, the document entity has no name and might ! 3092: well appear on a processor input stream ! 3093: without any identification at all.</p> ! 3094: </div2> ! 3095: ! 3096: ! 3097: </div1> ! 3098: <!-- &Conformance; --> ! 3099: ! 3100: <div1 id="sec-conformance"> ! 3101: <head>Conformance</head> ! 3102: ! 3103: <div2 id="proc-types"> ! 3104: <head>Validating and Non-Validating Processors</head> ! 3105: <p>Conforming <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processors</termref> fall into two ! 3106: classes: validating and non-validating.</p> ! 3107: <p>Validating and non-validating processors alike must report ! 3108: violations of this specification's well-formedness constraints ! 3109: in the content of the ! 3110: <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref> and any ! 3111: other <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed entities</termref> that ! 3112: they read.</p> ! 3113: <p><termdef id="dt-validating" term="Validating Processor"> ! 3114: <term>Validating processors</term> must report ! 3115: violations of the constraints expressed by the declarations in the ! 3116: <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>, and ! 3117: failures to fulfill the validity constraints given ! 3118: in this specification. ! 3119: </termdef> ! 3120: To accomplish this, validating XML processors must read and process the entire ! 3121: DTD and all external parsed entities referenced in the document. ! 3122: </p> ! 3123: <p>Non-validating processors are required to check only the ! 3124: <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, including ! 3125: the entire internal DTD subset, for well-formedness. ! 3126: <termdef id="dt-use-mdecl" term="Process Declarations"> ! 3127: While they are not required to check the document for validity, ! 3128: they are required to ! 3129: <term>process</term> all the declarations they read in the ! 3130: internal DTD subset and in any parameter entity that they ! 3131: read, up to the first reference ! 3132: to a parameter entity that they do <emph>not</emph> read; that is to ! 3133: say, they must ! 3134: use the information in those declarations to ! 3135: <titleref href="AVNormalize">normalize</titleref> attribute values, ! 3136: <titleref href="included">include</titleref> the replacement text of ! 3137: internal entities, and supply ! 3138: <titleref href="sec-attr-defaults">default attribute values</titleref>. ! 3139: </termdef> ! 3140: They must not <termref def="dt-use-mdecl">process</termref> ! 3141: <termref def="dt-entdecl">entity declarations</termref> or ! 3142: <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute-list declarations</termref> ! 3143: encountered after a reference to a parameter entity that is not ! 3144: read, since the entity may have contained overriding declarations. ! 3145: </p> ! 3146: </div2> ! 3147: <div2 id="safe-behavior"> ! 3148: <head>Using XML Processors</head> ! 3149: <p>The behavior of a validating XML processor is highly predictable; it ! 3150: must read every piece of a document and report all well-formedness and ! 3151: validity violations. ! 3152: Less is required of a non-validating processor; it need not read any ! 3153: part of the document other than the document entity. ! 3154: This has two effects that may be important to users of XML processors: ! 3155: <ulist> ! 3156: <item><p>Certain well-formedness errors, specifically those that require ! 3157: reading external entities, may not be detected by a non-validating processor. ! 3158: Examples include the constraints entitled ! 3159: <titleref href="wf-entdeclared">Entity Declared</titleref>, ! 3160: <titleref href="wf-textent">Parsed Entity</titleref>, and ! 3161: <titleref href="wf-norecursion">No Recursion</titleref>, as well ! 3162: as some of the cases described as ! 3163: <titleref href="forbidden">forbidden</titleref> in ! 3164: <specref ref="entproc"/>.</p></item> ! 3165: <item><p>The information passed from the processor to the application may ! 3166: vary, depending on whether the processor reads ! 3167: parameter and external entities. ! 3168: For example, a non-validating processor may not ! 3169: <titleref href="AVNormalize">normalize</titleref> attribute values, ! 3170: <titleref href="included">include</titleref> the replacement text of ! 3171: internal entities, or supply ! 3172: <titleref href="sec-attr-defaults">default attribute values</titleref>, ! 3173: where doing so depends on having read declarations in ! 3174: external or parameter entities.</p></item> ! 3175: </ulist> ! 3176: </p> ! 3177: <p>For maximum reliability in interoperating between different XML ! 3178: processors, applications which use non-validating processors should not ! 3179: rely on any behaviors not required of such processors. ! 3180: Applications which require facilities such as the use of default ! 3181: attributes or internal entities which are declared in external ! 3182: entities should use validating XML processors.</p> ! 3183: </div2> ! 3184: </div1> ! 3185: ! 3186: <div1 id="sec-notation"> ! 3187: <head>Notation</head> ! 3188: ! 3189: <p>The formal grammar of XML is given in this specification using a simple ! 3190: Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) notation. Each rule in the grammar defines ! 3191: one symbol, in the form ! 3192: <eg>symbol ::= expression</eg></p> ! 3193: <p>Symbols are written with an initial capital letter if they are ! 3194: defined by a regular expression, or with an initial lower case letter ! 3195: otherwise. ! 3196: Literal strings are quoted. ! 3197: ! 3198: </p> ! 3199: ! 3200: <p>Within the expression on the right-hand side of a rule, the following ! 3201: expressions are used to match strings of one or more characters: ! 3202: <glist> ! 3203: <gitem> ! 3204: <label><code>#xN</code></label> ! 3205: <def><p>where <code>N</code> is a hexadecimal integer, the ! 3206: expression matches the character in ISO/IEC 10646 whose canonical ! 3207: (UCS-4) ! 3208: code value, when interpreted as an unsigned binary number, has ! 3209: the value indicated. The number of leading zeros in the ! 3210: <code>#xN</code> form is insignificant; the number of leading ! 3211: zeros in the corresponding code value ! 3212: is governed by the character ! 3213: encoding in use and is not significant for XML.</p></def> ! 3214: </gitem> ! 3215: <gitem> ! 3216: <label><code>[a-zA-Z]</code>, <code>[#xN-#xN]</code></label> ! 3217: <def><p>matches any <termref def="dt-character">character</termref> ! 3218: with a value in the range(s) indicated (inclusive).</p></def> ! 3219: </gitem> ! 3220: <gitem> ! 3221: <label><code>[^a-z]</code>, <code>[^#xN-#xN]</code></label> ! 3222: <def><p>matches any <termref def="dt-character">character</termref> ! 3223: with a value <emph>outside</emph> the ! 3224: range indicated.</p></def> ! 3225: </gitem> ! 3226: <gitem> ! 3227: <label><code>[^abc]</code>, <code>[^#xN#xN#xN]</code></label> ! 3228: <def><p>matches any <termref def="dt-character">character</termref> ! 3229: with a value not among the characters given.</p></def> ! 3230: </gitem> ! 3231: <gitem> ! 3232: <label><code>"string"</code></label> ! 3233: <def><p>matches a literal string <termref def="dt-match">matching</termref> ! 3234: that given inside the double quotes.</p></def> ! 3235: </gitem> ! 3236: <gitem> ! 3237: <label><code>'string'</code></label> ! 3238: <def><p>matches a literal string <termref def="dt-match">matching</termref> ! 3239: that given inside the single quotes.</p></def> ! 3240: </gitem> ! 3241: </glist> ! 3242: These symbols may be combined to match more complex patterns as follows, ! 3243: where <code>A</code> and <code>B</code> represent simple expressions: ! 3244: <glist> ! 3245: <gitem> ! 3246: <label>(<code>expression</code>)</label> ! 3247: <def><p><code>expression</code> is treated as a unit ! 3248: and may be combined as described in this list.</p></def> ! 3249: </gitem> ! 3250: <gitem> ! 3251: <label><code>A?</code></label> ! 3252: <def><p>matches <code>A</code> or nothing; optional <code>A</code>.</p></def> ! 3253: </gitem> ! 3254: <gitem> ! 3255: <label><code>A B</code></label> ! 3256: <def><p>matches <code>A</code> followed by <code>B</code>.</p></def> ! 3257: </gitem> ! 3258: <gitem> ! 3259: <label><code>A | B</code></label> ! 3260: <def><p>matches <code>A</code> or <code>B</code> but not both.</p></def> ! 3261: </gitem> ! 3262: <gitem> ! 3263: <label><code>A - B</code></label> ! 3264: <def><p>matches any string that matches <code>A</code> but does not match ! 3265: <code>B</code>. ! 3266: </p></def> ! 3267: </gitem> ! 3268: <gitem> ! 3269: <label><code>A+</code></label> ! 3270: <def><p>matches one or more occurrences of <code>A</code>.</p></def> ! 3271: </gitem> ! 3272: <gitem> ! 3273: <label><code>A*</code></label> ! 3274: <def><p>matches zero or more occurrences of <code>A</code>.</p></def> ! 3275: </gitem> ! 3276: ! 3277: </glist> ! 3278: Other notations used in the productions are: ! 3279: <glist> ! 3280: <gitem> ! 3281: <label><code>/* ... */</code></label> ! 3282: <def><p>comment.</p></def> ! 3283: </gitem> ! 3284: <gitem> ! 3285: <label><code>[ wfc: ... ]</code></label> ! 3286: <def><p>well-formedness constraint; this identifies by name a ! 3287: constraint on ! 3288: <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> documents ! 3289: associated with a production.</p></def> ! 3290: </gitem> ! 3291: <gitem> ! 3292: <label><code>[ vc: ... ]</code></label> ! 3293: <def><p>validity constraint; this identifies by name a constraint on ! 3294: <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> documents associated with ! 3295: a production.</p></def> ! 3296: </gitem> ! 3297: </glist> ! 3298: </p></div1> ! 3299: ! 3300: </body> ! 3301: <back> ! 3302: <!-- &SGML; --> ! 3303: ! 3304: ! 3305: <!-- &Biblio; --> ! 3306: <div1 id="sec-bibliography"> ! 3307: ! 3308: <head>References</head> ! 3309: <div2 id="sec-existing-stds"> ! 3310: <head>Normative References</head> ! 3311: ! 3312: <blist> ! 3313: <bibl id="IANA" key="IANA"> ! 3314: (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) <emph>Official Names for ! 3315: Character Sets</emph>, ! 3316: ed. Keld Simonsen et al. ! 3317: See <loc href="ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets">ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets</loc>. ! 3318: </bibl> ! 3319: ! 3320: <bibl id="RFC1766" key="IETF RFC 1766"> ! 3321: IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). ! 3322: <emph>RFC 1766: Tags for the Identification of Languages</emph>, ! 3323: ed. H. Alvestrand. ! 3324: 1995. ! 3325: </bibl> ! 3326: ! 3327: <bibl id="ISO639" key="ISO 639"> ! 3328: (International Organization for Standardization). ! 3329: <emph>ISO 639:1988 (E). ! 3330: Code for the representation of names of languages.</emph> ! 3331: [Geneva]: International Organization for ! 3332: Standardization, 1988.</bibl> ! 3333: ! 3334: <bibl id="ISO3166" key="ISO 3166"> ! 3335: (International Organization for Standardization). ! 3336: <emph>ISO 3166-1:1997 (E). ! 3337: Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions ! 3338: — Part 1: Country codes</emph> ! 3339: [Geneva]: International Organization for ! 3340: Standardization, 1997.</bibl> ! 3341: ! 3342: <bibl id="ISO10646" key="ISO/IEC 10646">ISO ! 3343: (International Organization for Standardization). ! 3344: <emph>ISO/IEC 10646-1993 (E). Information technology — Universal ! 3345: Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) — Part 1: ! 3346: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane.</emph> ! 3347: [Geneva]: International Organization for ! 3348: Standardization, 1993 (plus amendments AM 1 through AM 7). ! 3349: </bibl> ! 3350: ! 3351: <bibl id="Unicode" key="Unicode">The Unicode Consortium. ! 3352: <emph>The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0.</emph> ! 3353: Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1996.</bibl> ! 3354: ! 3355: </blist> ! 3356: ! 3357: </div2> ! 3358: ! 3359: <div2><head>Other References</head> ! 3360: ! 3361: <blist> ! 3362: ! 3363: <bibl id="Aho" key="Aho/Ullman">Aho, Alfred V., ! 3364: Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. ! 3365: <emph>Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools</emph>. ! 3366: Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1986, rpt. corr. 1988.</bibl> ! 3367: ! 3368: <bibl id="Berners-Lee" xml-link="simple" key="Berners-Lee et al."> ! 3369: Berners-Lee, T., R. Fielding, and L. Masinter. ! 3370: <emph>Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and ! 3371: Semantics</emph>. ! 3372: 1997. ! 3373: (Work in progress; see updates to RFC1738.)</bibl> ! 3374: ! 3375: <bibl id="ABK" key="Brüggemann-Klein">Brüggemann-Klein, Anne. ! 3376: <emph>Regular Expressions into Finite Automata</emph>. ! 3377: Extended abstract in I. Simon, Hrsg., LATIN 1992, ! 3378: S. 97-98. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1992. ! 3379: Full Version in Theoretical Computer Science 120: 197-213, 1993. ! 3380: ! 3381: </bibl> ! 3382: ! 3383: <bibl id="ABKDW" key="Brüggemann-Klein and Wood">Brüggemann-Klein, Anne, ! 3384: and Derick Wood. ! 3385: <emph>Deterministic Regular Languages</emph>. ! 3386: Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik, ! 3387: Bericht 38, Oktober 1991. ! 3388: </bibl> ! 3389: ! 3390: <bibl id="Clark" key="Clark">James Clark. ! 3391: Comparison of SGML and XML. See ! 3392: <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215">http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215</loc>. ! 3393: </bibl> ! 3394: <bibl id="RFC1738" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC1738"> ! 3395: IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). ! 3396: <emph>RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)</emph>, ! 3397: ed. T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill. ! 3398: 1994. ! 3399: </bibl> ! 3400: ! 3401: <bibl id="RFC1808" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC1808"> ! 3402: IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). ! 3403: <emph>RFC 1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators</emph>, ! 3404: ed. R. Fielding. ! 3405: 1995. ! 3406: </bibl> ! 3407: ! 3408: <bibl id="RFC2141" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC2141"> ! 3409: IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force). ! 3410: <emph>RFC 2141: URN Syntax</emph>, ! 3411: ed. R. Moats. ! 3412: 1997. ! 3413: </bibl> ! 3414: ! 3415: <bibl id="ISO8879" key="ISO 8879">ISO ! 3416: (International Organization for Standardization). ! 3417: <emph>ISO 8879:1986(E). Information processing — Text and Office ! 3418: Systems — Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).</emph> First ! 3419: edition — 1986-10-15. [Geneva]: International Organization for ! 3420: Standardization, 1986. ! 3421: </bibl> ! 3422: ! 3423: ! 3424: <bibl id="ISO10744" key="ISO/IEC 10744">ISO ! 3425: (International Organization for Standardization). ! 3426: <emph>ISO/IEC 10744-1992 (E). Information technology — ! 3427: Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime). ! 3428: </emph> ! 3429: [Geneva]: International Organization for ! 3430: Standardization, 1992. ! 3431: <emph>Extended Facilities Annexe.</emph> ! 3432: [Geneva]: International Organization for ! 3433: Standardization, 1996. ! 3434: </bibl> ! 3435: ! 3436: ! 3437: ! 3438: </blist> ! 3439: </div2> ! 3440: </div1> ! 3441: <div1 id="CharClasses"> ! 3442: <head>Character Classes</head> ! 3443: <p>Following the characteristics defined in the Unicode standard, ! 3444: characters are classed as base characters (among others, these ! 3445: contain the alphabetic characters of the Latin alphabet, without ! 3446: diacritics), ideographic characters, and combining characters (among ! 3447: others, this class contains most diacritics); these classes combine ! 3448: to form the class of letters. Digits and extenders are ! 3449: also distinguished. ! 3450: <scrap lang="ebnf" id="CHARACTERS"> ! 3451: <head>Characters</head> ! 3452: <prodgroup pcw3="3" pcw4="15"> ! 3453: <prod id="NT-Letter"><lhs>Letter</lhs> ! 3454: <rhs><nt def="NT-BaseChar">BaseChar</nt> ! 3455: | <nt def="NT-Ideographic">Ideographic</nt></rhs> </prod> ! 3456: <prod id="NT-BaseChar"><lhs>BaseChar</lhs> ! 3457: <rhs>[#x0041-#x005A] ! 3458: | [#x0061-#x007A] ! 3459: | [#x00C0-#x00D6] ! 3460: | [#x00D8-#x00F6] ! 3461: | [#x00F8-#x00FF] ! 3462: | [#x0100-#x0131] ! 3463: | [#x0134-#x013E] ! 3464: | [#x0141-#x0148] ! 3465: | [#x014A-#x017E] ! 3466: | [#x0180-#x01C3] ! 3467: | [#x01CD-#x01F0] ! 3468: | [#x01F4-#x01F5] ! 3469: | [#x01FA-#x0217] ! 3470: | [#x0250-#x02A8] ! 3471: | [#x02BB-#x02C1] ! 3472: | #x0386 ! 3473: | [#x0388-#x038A] ! 3474: | #x038C ! 3475: | [#x038E-#x03A1] ! 3476: | [#x03A3-#x03CE] ! 3477: | [#x03D0-#x03D6] ! 3478: | #x03DA ! 3479: | #x03DC ! 3480: | #x03DE ! 3481: | #x03E0 ! 3482: | [#x03E2-#x03F3] ! 3483: | [#x0401-#x040C] ! 3484: | [#x040E-#x044F] ! 3485: | [#x0451-#x045C] ! 3486: | [#x045E-#x0481] ! 3487: | [#x0490-#x04C4] ! 3488: | [#x04C7-#x04C8] ! 3489: | [#x04CB-#x04CC] ! 3490: | [#x04D0-#x04EB] ! 3491: | [#x04EE-#x04F5] ! 3492: | [#x04F8-#x04F9] ! 3493: | [#x0531-#x0556] ! 3494: | #x0559 ! 3495: | [#x0561-#x0586] ! 3496: | [#x05D0-#x05EA] ! 3497: | [#x05F0-#x05F2] ! 3498: | [#x0621-#x063A] ! 3499: | [#x0641-#x064A] ! 3500: | [#x0671-#x06B7] ! 3501: | [#x06BA-#x06BE] ! 3502: | [#x06C0-#x06CE] ! 3503: | [#x06D0-#x06D3] ! 3504: | #x06D5 ! 3505: | [#x06E5-#x06E6] ! 3506: | [#x0905-#x0939] ! 3507: | #x093D ! 3508: | [#x0958-#x0961] ! 3509: | [#x0985-#x098C] ! 3510: | [#x098F-#x0990] ! 3511: | [#x0993-#x09A8] ! 3512: | [#x09AA-#x09B0] ! 3513: | #x09B2 ! 3514: | [#x09B6-#x09B9] ! 3515: | [#x09DC-#x09DD] ! 3516: | [#x09DF-#x09E1] ! 3517: | [#x09F0-#x09F1] ! 3518: | [#x0A05-#x0A0A] ! 3519: | [#x0A0F-#x0A10] ! 3520: | [#x0A13-#x0A28] ! 3521: | [#x0A2A-#x0A30] ! 3522: | [#x0A32-#x0A33] ! 3523: | [#x0A35-#x0A36] ! 3524: | [#x0A38-#x0A39] ! 3525: | [#x0A59-#x0A5C] ! 3526: | #x0A5E ! 3527: | [#x0A72-#x0A74] ! 3528: | [#x0A85-#x0A8B] ! 3529: | #x0A8D ! 3530: | [#x0A8F-#x0A91] ! 3531: | [#x0A93-#x0AA8] ! 3532: | [#x0AAA-#x0AB0] ! 3533: | [#x0AB2-#x0AB3] ! 3534: | [#x0AB5-#x0AB9] ! 3535: | #x0ABD ! 3536: | #x0AE0 ! 3537: | [#x0B05-#x0B0C] ! 3538: | [#x0B0F-#x0B10] ! 3539: | [#x0B13-#x0B28] ! 3540: | [#x0B2A-#x0B30] ! 3541: | [#x0B32-#x0B33] ! 3542: | [#x0B36-#x0B39] ! 3543: | #x0B3D ! 3544: | [#x0B5C-#x0B5D] ! 3545: | [#x0B5F-#x0B61] ! 3546: | [#x0B85-#x0B8A] ! 3547: | [#x0B8E-#x0B90] ! 3548: | [#x0B92-#x0B95] ! 3549: | [#x0B99-#x0B9A] ! 3550: | #x0B9C ! 3551: | [#x0B9E-#x0B9F] ! 3552: | [#x0BA3-#x0BA4] ! 3553: | [#x0BA8-#x0BAA] ! 3554: | [#x0BAE-#x0BB5] ! 3555: | [#x0BB7-#x0BB9] ! 3556: | [#x0C05-#x0C0C] ! 3557: | [#x0C0E-#x0C10] ! 3558: | [#x0C12-#x0C28] ! 3559: | [#x0C2A-#x0C33] ! 3560: | [#x0C35-#x0C39] ! 3561: | [#x0C60-#x0C61] ! 3562: | [#x0C85-#x0C8C] ! 3563: | [#x0C8E-#x0C90] ! 3564: | [#x0C92-#x0CA8] ! 3565: | [#x0CAA-#x0CB3] ! 3566: | [#x0CB5-#x0CB9] ! 3567: | #x0CDE ! 3568: | [#x0CE0-#x0CE1] ! 3569: | [#x0D05-#x0D0C] ! 3570: | [#x0D0E-#x0D10] ! 3571: | [#x0D12-#x0D28] ! 3572: | [#x0D2A-#x0D39] ! 3573: | [#x0D60-#x0D61] ! 3574: | [#x0E01-#x0E2E] ! 3575: | #x0E30 ! 3576: | [#x0E32-#x0E33] ! 3577: | [#x0E40-#x0E45] ! 3578: | [#x0E81-#x0E82] ! 3579: | #x0E84 ! 3580: | [#x0E87-#x0E88] ! 3581: | #x0E8A ! 3582: | #x0E8D ! 3583: | [#x0E94-#x0E97] ! 3584: | [#x0E99-#x0E9F] ! 3585: | [#x0EA1-#x0EA3] ! 3586: | #x0EA5 ! 3587: | #x0EA7 ! 3588: | [#x0EAA-#x0EAB] ! 3589: | [#x0EAD-#x0EAE] ! 3590: | #x0EB0 ! 3591: | [#x0EB2-#x0EB3] ! 3592: | #x0EBD ! 3593: | [#x0EC0-#x0EC4] ! 3594: | [#x0F40-#x0F47] ! 3595: | [#x0F49-#x0F69] ! 3596: | [#x10A0-#x10C5] ! 3597: | [#x10D0-#x10F6] ! 3598: | #x1100 ! 3599: | [#x1102-#x1103] ! 3600: | [#x1105-#x1107] ! 3601: | #x1109 ! 3602: | [#x110B-#x110C] ! 3603: | [#x110E-#x1112] ! 3604: | #x113C ! 3605: | #x113E ! 3606: | #x1140 ! 3607: | #x114C ! 3608: | #x114E ! 3609: | #x1150 ! 3610: | [#x1154-#x1155] ! 3611: | #x1159 ! 3612: | [#x115F-#x1161] ! 3613: | #x1163 ! 3614: | #x1165 ! 3615: | #x1167 ! 3616: | #x1169 ! 3617: | [#x116D-#x116E] ! 3618: | [#x1172-#x1173] ! 3619: | #x1175 ! 3620: | #x119E ! 3621: | #x11A8 ! 3622: | #x11AB ! 3623: | [#x11AE-#x11AF] ! 3624: | [#x11B7-#x11B8] ! 3625: | #x11BA ! 3626: | [#x11BC-#x11C2] ! 3627: | #x11EB ! 3628: | #x11F0 ! 3629: | #x11F9 ! 3630: | [#x1E00-#x1E9B] ! 3631: | [#x1EA0-#x1EF9] ! 3632: | [#x1F00-#x1F15] ! 3633: | [#x1F18-#x1F1D] ! 3634: | [#x1F20-#x1F45] ! 3635: | [#x1F48-#x1F4D] ! 3636: | [#x1F50-#x1F57] ! 3637: | #x1F59 ! 3638: | #x1F5B ! 3639: | #x1F5D ! 3640: | [#x1F5F-#x1F7D] ! 3641: | [#x1F80-#x1FB4] ! 3642: | [#x1FB6-#x1FBC] ! 3643: | #x1FBE ! 3644: | [#x1FC2-#x1FC4] ! 3645: | [#x1FC6-#x1FCC] ! 3646: | [#x1FD0-#x1FD3] ! 3647: | [#x1FD6-#x1FDB] ! 3648: | [#x1FE0-#x1FEC] ! 3649: | [#x1FF2-#x1FF4] ! 3650: | [#x1FF6-#x1FFC] ! 3651: | #x2126 ! 3652: | [#x212A-#x212B] ! 3653: | #x212E ! 3654: | [#x2180-#x2182] ! 3655: | [#x3041-#x3094] ! 3656: | [#x30A1-#x30FA] ! 3657: | [#x3105-#x312C] ! 3658: | [#xAC00-#xD7A3] ! 3659: </rhs></prod> ! 3660: <prod id="NT-Ideographic"><lhs>Ideographic</lhs> ! 3661: <rhs>[#x4E00-#x9FA5] ! 3662: | #x3007 ! 3663: | [#x3021-#x3029] ! 3664: </rhs></prod> ! 3665: <prod id="NT-CombiningChar"><lhs>CombiningChar</lhs> ! 3666: <rhs>[#x0300-#x0345] ! 3667: | [#x0360-#x0361] ! 3668: | [#x0483-#x0486] ! 3669: | [#x0591-#x05A1] ! 3670: | [#x05A3-#x05B9] ! 3671: | [#x05BB-#x05BD] ! 3672: | #x05BF ! 3673: | [#x05C1-#x05C2] ! 3674: | #x05C4 ! 3675: | [#x064B-#x0652] ! 3676: | #x0670 ! 3677: | [#x06D6-#x06DC] ! 3678: | [#x06DD-#x06DF] ! 3679: | [#x06E0-#x06E4] ! 3680: | [#x06E7-#x06E8] ! 3681: | [#x06EA-#x06ED] ! 3682: | [#x0901-#x0903] ! 3683: | #x093C ! 3684: | [#x093E-#x094C] ! 3685: | #x094D ! 3686: | [#x0951-#x0954] ! 3687: | [#x0962-#x0963] ! 3688: | [#x0981-#x0983] ! 3689: | #x09BC ! 3690: | #x09BE ! 3691: | #x09BF ! 3692: | [#x09C0-#x09C4] ! 3693: | [#x09C7-#x09C8] ! 3694: | [#x09CB-#x09CD] ! 3695: | #x09D7 ! 3696: | [#x09E2-#x09E3] ! 3697: | #x0A02 ! 3698: | #x0A3C ! 3699: | #x0A3E ! 3700: | #x0A3F ! 3701: | [#x0A40-#x0A42] ! 3702: | [#x0A47-#x0A48] ! 3703: | [#x0A4B-#x0A4D] ! 3704: | [#x0A70-#x0A71] ! 3705: | [#x0A81-#x0A83] ! 3706: | #x0ABC ! 3707: | [#x0ABE-#x0AC5] ! 3708: | [#x0AC7-#x0AC9] ! 3709: | [#x0ACB-#x0ACD] ! 3710: | [#x0B01-#x0B03] ! 3711: | #x0B3C ! 3712: | [#x0B3E-#x0B43] ! 3713: | [#x0B47-#x0B48] ! 3714: | [#x0B4B-#x0B4D] ! 3715: | [#x0B56-#x0B57] ! 3716: | [#x0B82-#x0B83] ! 3717: | [#x0BBE-#x0BC2] ! 3718: | [#x0BC6-#x0BC8] ! 3719: | [#x0BCA-#x0BCD] ! 3720: | #x0BD7 ! 3721: | [#x0C01-#x0C03] ! 3722: | [#x0C3E-#x0C44] ! 3723: | [#x0C46-#x0C48] ! 3724: | [#x0C4A-#x0C4D] ! 3725: | [#x0C55-#x0C56] ! 3726: | [#x0C82-#x0C83] ! 3727: | [#x0CBE-#x0CC4] ! 3728: | [#x0CC6-#x0CC8] ! 3729: | [#x0CCA-#x0CCD] ! 3730: | [#x0CD5-#x0CD6] ! 3731: | [#x0D02-#x0D03] ! 3732: | [#x0D3E-#x0D43] ! 3733: | [#x0D46-#x0D48] ! 3734: | [#x0D4A-#x0D4D] ! 3735: | #x0D57 ! 3736: | #x0E31 ! 3737: | [#x0E34-#x0E3A] ! 3738: | [#x0E47-#x0E4E] ! 3739: | #x0EB1 ! 3740: | [#x0EB4-#x0EB9] ! 3741: | [#x0EBB-#x0EBC] ! 3742: | [#x0EC8-#x0ECD] ! 3743: | [#x0F18-#x0F19] ! 3744: | #x0F35 ! 3745: | #x0F37 ! 3746: | #x0F39 ! 3747: | #x0F3E ! 3748: | #x0F3F ! 3749: | [#x0F71-#x0F84] ! 3750: | [#x0F86-#x0F8B] ! 3751: | [#x0F90-#x0F95] ! 3752: | #x0F97 ! 3753: | [#x0F99-#x0FAD] ! 3754: | [#x0FB1-#x0FB7] ! 3755: | #x0FB9 ! 3756: | [#x20D0-#x20DC] ! 3757: | #x20E1 ! 3758: | [#x302A-#x302F] ! 3759: | #x3099 ! 3760: | #x309A ! 3761: </rhs></prod> ! 3762: <prod id="NT-Digit"><lhs>Digit</lhs> ! 3763: <rhs>[#x0030-#x0039] ! 3764: | [#x0660-#x0669] ! 3765: | [#x06F0-#x06F9] ! 3766: | [#x0966-#x096F] ! 3767: | [#x09E6-#x09EF] ! 3768: | [#x0A66-#x0A6F] ! 3769: | [#x0AE6-#x0AEF] ! 3770: | [#x0B66-#x0B6F] ! 3771: | [#x0BE7-#x0BEF] ! 3772: | [#x0C66-#x0C6F] ! 3773: | [#x0CE6-#x0CEF] ! 3774: | [#x0D66-#x0D6F] ! 3775: | [#x0E50-#x0E59] ! 3776: | [#x0ED0-#x0ED9] ! 3777: | [#x0F20-#x0F29] ! 3778: </rhs></prod> ! 3779: <prod id="NT-Extender"><lhs>Extender</lhs> ! 3780: <rhs>#x00B7 ! 3781: | #x02D0 ! 3782: | #x02D1 ! 3783: | #x0387 ! 3784: | #x0640 ! 3785: | #x0E46 ! 3786: | #x0EC6 ! 3787: | #x3005 ! 3788: | [#x3031-#x3035] ! 3789: | [#x309D-#x309E] ! 3790: | [#x30FC-#x30FE] ! 3791: </rhs></prod> ! 3792: ! 3793: </prodgroup> ! 3794: </scrap> ! 3795: </p> ! 3796: <p>The character classes defined here can be derived from the ! 3797: Unicode character database as follows: ! 3798: <ulist> ! 3799: <item> ! 3800: <p>Name start characters must have one of the categories Ll, Lu, ! 3801: Lo, Lt, Nl.</p> ! 3802: </item> ! 3803: <item> ! 3804: <p>Name characters other than Name-start characters ! 3805: must have one of the categories Mc, Me, Mn, Lm, or Nd.</p> ! 3806: </item> ! 3807: <item> ! 3808: <p>Characters in the compatibility area (i.e. with character code ! 3809: greater than #xF900 and less than #xFFFE) are not allowed in XML ! 3810: names.</p> ! 3811: </item> ! 3812: <item> ! 3813: <p>Characters which have a font or compatibility decomposition (i.e. those ! 3814: with a "compatibility formatting tag" in field 5 of the database -- ! 3815: marked by field 5 beginning with a "<") are not allowed.</p> ! 3816: </item> ! 3817: <item> ! 3818: <p>The following characters are treated as name-start characters ! 3819: rather than name characters, because the property file classifies ! 3820: them as Alphabetic: [#x02BB-#x02C1], #x0559, #x06E5, #x06E6.</p> ! 3821: </item> ! 3822: <item> ! 3823: <p>Characters #x20DD-#x20E0 are excluded (in accordance with ! 3824: Unicode, section 5.14).</p> ! 3825: </item> ! 3826: <item> ! 3827: <p>Character #x00B7 is classified as an extender, because the ! 3828: property list so identifies it.</p> ! 3829: </item> ! 3830: <item> ! 3831: <p>Character #x0387 is added as a name character, because #x00B7 ! 3832: is its canonical equivalent.</p> ! 3833: </item> ! 3834: <item> ! 3835: <p>Characters ':' and '_' are allowed as name-start characters.</p> ! 3836: </item> ! 3837: <item> ! 3838: <p>Characters '-' and '.' are allowed as name characters.</p> ! 3839: </item> ! 3840: </ulist> ! 3841: </p> ! 3842: </div1> ! 3843: <inform-div1 id="sec-xml-and-sgml"> ! 3844: <head>XML and SGML</head> ! 3845: ! 3846: <p>XML is designed to be a subset of SGML, in that every ! 3847: <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> XML document should also be a ! 3848: conformant SGML document. ! 3849: For a detailed comparison of the additional restrictions that XML places on ! 3850: documents beyond those of SGML, see <bibref ref="Clark"/>. ! 3851: </p> ! 3852: </inform-div1> ! 3853: <inform-div1 id="sec-entexpand"> ! 3854: <head>Expansion of Entity and Character References</head> ! 3855: <p>This appendix contains some examples illustrating the ! 3856: sequence of entity- and character-reference recognition and ! 3857: expansion, as specified in <specref ref="entproc"/>.</p> ! 3858: <p> ! 3859: If the DTD contains the declaration ! 3860: <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY example "<p>An ampersand (&#38;) may be escaped ! 3861: numerically (&#38;#38;) or with a general entity ! 3862: (&amp;).</p>" > ! 3863: ]]></eg> ! 3864: then the XML processor will recognize the character references ! 3865: when it parses the entity declaration, and resolve them before ! 3866: storing the following string as the ! 3867: value of the entity "<code>example</code>": ! 3868: <eg><![CDATA[<p>An ampersand (&) may be escaped ! 3869: numerically (&#38;) or with a general entity ! 3870: (&amp;).</p> ! 3871: ]]></eg> ! 3872: A reference in the document to "<code>&example;</code>" ! 3873: will cause the text to be reparsed, at which time the ! 3874: start- and end-tags of the "<code>p</code>" element will be recognized ! 3875: and the three references will be recognized and expanded, ! 3876: resulting in a "<code>p</code>" element with the following content ! 3877: (all data, no delimiters or markup): ! 3878: <eg><![CDATA[An ampersand (&) may be escaped ! 3879: numerically (&) or with a general entity ! 3880: (&). ! 3881: ]]></eg> ! 3882: </p> ! 3883: <p>A more complex example will illustrate the rules and their ! 3884: effects fully. In the following example, the line numbers are ! 3885: solely for reference. ! 3886: <eg><![CDATA[1 <?xml version='1.0'?> ! 3887: 2 <!DOCTYPE test [ ! 3888: 3 <!ELEMENT test (#PCDATA) > ! 3889: 4 <!ENTITY % xx '%zz;'> ! 3890: 5 <!ENTITY % zz '<!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" >' > ! 3891: 6 %xx; ! 3892: 7 ]> ! 3893: 8 <test>This sample shows a &tricky; method.</test> ! 3894: ]]></eg> ! 3895: This produces the following: ! 3896: <ulist spacing="compact"> ! 3897: <item><p>in line 4, the reference to character 37 is expanded immediately, ! 3898: and the parameter entity "<code>xx</code>" is stored in the symbol ! 3899: table with the value "<code>%zz;</code>". Since the replacement text ! 3900: is not rescanned, the reference to parameter entity "<code>zz</code>" ! 3901: is not recognized. (And it would be an error if it were, since ! 3902: "<code>zz</code>" is not yet declared.)</p></item> ! 3903: <item><p>in line 5, the character reference "<code>&#60;</code>" is ! 3904: expanded immediately and the parameter entity "<code>zz</code>" is ! 3905: stored with the replacement text ! 3906: "<code><!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" ></code>", ! 3907: which is a well-formed entity declaration.</p></item> ! 3908: <item><p>in line 6, the reference to "<code>xx</code>" is recognized, ! 3909: and the replacement text of "<code>xx</code>" (namely ! 3910: "<code>%zz;</code>") is parsed. The reference to "<code>zz</code>" ! 3911: is recognized in its turn, and its replacement text ! 3912: ("<code><!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" ></code>") is parsed. ! 3913: The general entity "<code>tricky</code>" has now been ! 3914: declared, with the replacement text "<code>error-prone</code>".</p></item> ! 3915: <item><p> ! 3916: in line 8, the reference to the general entity "<code>tricky</code>" is ! 3917: recognized, and it is expanded, so the full content of the ! 3918: "<code>test</code>" element is the self-describing (and ungrammatical) string ! 3919: <emph>This sample shows a error-prone method.</emph> ! 3920: </p></item> ! 3921: </ulist> ! 3922: </p> ! 3923: </inform-div1> ! 3924: <inform-div1 id="determinism"> ! 3925: <head>Deterministic Content Models</head> ! 3926: <p><termref def="dt-compat">For compatibility</termref>, it is ! 3927: required ! 3928: that content models in element type declarations be deterministic. ! 3929: </p> ! 3930: <!-- FINAL EDIT: WebSGML allows ambiguity? --> ! 3931: <p>SGML ! 3932: requires deterministic content models (it calls them ! 3933: "unambiguous"); XML processors built using SGML systems may ! 3934: flag non-deterministic content models as errors.</p> ! 3935: <p>For example, the content model <code>((b, c) | (b, d))</code> is ! 3936: non-deterministic, because given an initial <code>b</code> the parser ! 3937: cannot know which <code>b</code> in the model is being matched without ! 3938: looking ahead to see which element follows the <code>b</code>. ! 3939: In this case, the two references to ! 3940: <code>b</code> can be collapsed ! 3941: into a single reference, making the model read ! 3942: <code>(b, (c | d))</code>. An initial <code>b</code> now clearly ! 3943: matches only a single name in the content model. The parser doesn't ! 3944: need to look ahead to see what follows; either <code>c</code> or ! 3945: <code>d</code> would be accepted.</p> ! 3946: <p>More formally: a finite state automaton may be constructed from the ! 3947: content model using the standard algorithms, e.g. algorithm 3.5 ! 3948: in section 3.9 ! 3949: of Aho, Sethi, and Ullman <bibref ref="Aho"/>. ! 3950: In many such algorithms, a follow set is constructed for each ! 3951: position in the regular expression (i.e., each leaf ! 3952: node in the ! 3953: syntax tree for the regular expression); ! 3954: if any position has a follow set in which ! 3955: more than one following position is ! 3956: labeled with the same element type name, ! 3957: then the content model is in error ! 3958: and may be reported as an error. ! 3959: </p> ! 3960: <p>Algorithms exist which allow many but not all non-deterministic ! 3961: content models to be reduced automatically to equivalent deterministic ! 3962: models; see Brüggemann-Klein 1991 <bibref ref="ABK"/>.</p> ! 3963: </inform-div1> ! 3964: <inform-div1 id="sec-guessing"> ! 3965: <head>Autodetection of Character Encodings</head> ! 3966: <p>The XML encoding declaration functions as an internal label on each ! 3967: entity, indicating which character encoding is in use. Before an XML ! 3968: processor can read the internal label, however, it apparently has to ! 3969: know what character encoding is in use—which is what the internal label ! 3970: is trying to indicate. In the general case, this is a hopeless ! 3971: situation. It is not entirely hopeless in XML, however, because XML ! 3972: limits the general case in two ways: each implementation is assumed ! 3973: to support only a finite set of character encodings, and the XML ! 3974: encoding declaration is restricted in position and content in order to ! 3975: make it feasible to autodetect the character encoding in use in each ! 3976: entity in normal cases. Also, in many cases other sources of information ! 3977: are available in addition to the XML data stream itself. ! 3978: Two cases may be distinguished, ! 3979: depending on whether the XML entity is presented to the ! 3980: processor without, or with, any accompanying ! 3981: (external) information. We consider the first case first. ! 3982: </p> ! 3983: <p> ! 3984: Because each XML entity not in UTF-8 or UTF-16 format <emph>must</emph> ! 3985: begin with an XML encoding declaration, in which the first characters ! 3986: must be '<code><?xml</code>', any conforming processor can detect, ! 3987: after two to four octets of input, which of the following cases apply. ! 3988: In reading this list, it may help to know that in UCS-4, '<' is ! 3989: "<code>#x0000003C</code>" and '?' is "<code>#x0000003F</code>", and the Byte ! 3990: Order Mark required of UTF-16 data streams is "<code>#xFEFF</code>".</p> ! 3991: <p> ! 3992: <ulist> ! 3993: <item> ! 3994: <p><code>00 00 00 3C</code>: UCS-4, big-endian machine (1234 order)</p> ! 3995: </item> ! 3996: <item> ! 3997: <p><code>3C 00 00 00</code>: UCS-4, little-endian machine (4321 order)</p> ! 3998: </item> ! 3999: <item> ! 4000: <p><code>00 00 3C 00</code>: UCS-4, unusual octet order (2143)</p> ! 4001: </item> ! 4002: <item> ! 4003: <p><code>00 3C 00 00</code>: UCS-4, unusual octet order (3412)</p> ! 4004: </item> ! 4005: <item> ! 4006: <p><code>FE FF</code>: UTF-16, big-endian</p> ! 4007: </item> ! 4008: <item> ! 4009: <p><code>FF FE</code>: UTF-16, little-endian</p> ! 4010: </item> ! 4011: <item> ! 4012: <p><code>00 3C 00 3F</code>: UTF-16, big-endian, no Byte Order Mark ! 4013: (and thus, strictly speaking, in error)</p> ! 4014: </item> ! 4015: <item> ! 4016: <p><code>3C 00 3F 00</code>: UTF-16, little-endian, no Byte Order Mark ! 4017: (and thus, strictly speaking, in error)</p> ! 4018: </item> ! 4019: <item> ! 4020: <p><code>3C 3F 78 6D</code>: UTF-8, ISO 646, ASCII, some part of ISO 8859, ! 4021: Shift-JIS, EUC, or any other 7-bit, 8-bit, or mixed-width encoding ! 4022: which ensures that the characters of ASCII have their normal positions, ! 4023: width, ! 4024: and values; the actual encoding declaration must be read to ! 4025: detect which of these applies, but since all of these encodings ! 4026: use the same bit patterns for the ASCII characters, the encoding ! 4027: declaration itself may be read reliably ! 4028: </p> ! 4029: </item> ! 4030: <item> ! 4031: <p><code>4C 6F A7 94</code>: EBCDIC (in some flavor; the full ! 4032: encoding declaration must be read to tell which code page is in ! 4033: use)</p> ! 4034: </item> ! 4035: <item> ! 4036: <p>other: UTF-8 without an encoding declaration, or else ! 4037: the data stream is corrupt, fragmentary, or enclosed in ! 4038: a wrapper of some kind</p> ! 4039: </item> ! 4040: </ulist> ! 4041: </p> ! 4042: <p> ! 4043: This level of autodetection is enough to read the XML encoding ! 4044: declaration and parse the character-encoding identifier, which is ! 4045: still necessary to distinguish the individual members of each family ! 4046: of encodings (e.g. to tell UTF-8 from 8859, and the parts of 8859 ! 4047: from each other, or to distinguish the specific EBCDIC code page in ! 4048: use, and so on). ! 4049: </p> ! 4050: <p> ! 4051: Because the contents of the encoding declaration are restricted to ! 4052: ASCII characters, a processor can reliably read the entire encoding ! 4053: declaration as soon as it has detected which family of encodings is in ! 4054: use. Since in practice, all widely used character encodings fall into ! 4055: one of the categories above, the XML encoding declaration allows ! 4056: reasonably reliable in-band labeling of character encodings, even when ! 4057: external sources of information at the operating-system or ! 4058: transport-protocol level are unreliable. ! 4059: </p> ! 4060: <p> ! 4061: Once the processor has detected the character encoding in use, it can ! 4062: act appropriately, whether by invoking a separate input routine for ! 4063: each case, or by calling the proper conversion function on each ! 4064: character of input. ! 4065: </p> ! 4066: <p> ! 4067: Like any self-labeling system, the XML encoding declaration will not ! 4068: work if any software changes the entity's character set or encoding ! 4069: without updating the encoding declaration. Implementors of ! 4070: character-encoding routines should be careful to ensure the accuracy ! 4071: of the internal and external information used to label the entity. ! 4072: </p> ! 4073: <p>The second possible case occurs when the XML entity is accompanied ! 4074: by encoding information, as in some file systems and some network ! 4075: protocols. ! 4076: When multiple sources of information are available, ! 4077: ! 4078: their relative ! 4079: priority and the preferred method of handling conflict should be ! 4080: specified as part of the higher-level protocol used to deliver XML. ! 4081: Rules for the relative priority of the internal label and the ! 4082: MIME-type label in an external header, for example, should be part of the ! 4083: RFC document defining the text/xml and application/xml MIME types. In ! 4084: the interests of interoperability, however, the following rules ! 4085: are recommended. ! 4086: <ulist> ! 4087: <item><p>If an XML entity is in a file, the Byte-Order Mark ! 4088: and encoding-declaration PI are used (if present) to determine the ! 4089: character encoding. All other heuristics and sources of information ! 4090: are solely for error recovery. ! 4091: </p></item> ! 4092: <item><p>If an XML entity is delivered with a ! 4093: MIME type of text/xml, then the <code>charset</code> parameter ! 4094: on the MIME type determines the ! 4095: character encoding method; all other heuristics and sources of ! 4096: information are solely for error recovery. ! 4097: </p></item> ! 4098: <item><p>If an XML entity is delivered ! 4099: with a ! 4100: MIME type of application/xml, then the Byte-Order Mark and ! 4101: encoding-declaration PI are used (if present) to determine the ! 4102: character encoding. All other heuristics and sources of ! 4103: information are solely for error recovery. ! 4104: </p></item> ! 4105: </ulist> ! 4106: These rules apply only in the absence of protocol-level documentation; ! 4107: in particular, when the MIME types text/xml and application/xml are ! 4108: defined, the recommendations of the relevant RFC will supersede ! 4109: these rules. ! 4110: </p> ! 4111: ! 4112: </inform-div1> ! 4113: ! 4114: <inform-div1 id="sec-xml-wg"> ! 4115: <head>W3C XML Working Group</head> ! 4116: ! 4117: <p>This specification was prepared and approved for publication by the ! 4118: W3C XML Working Group (WG). WG approval of this specification does ! 4119: not necessarily imply that all WG members voted for its approval. ! 4120: The current and former members of the XML WG are:</p> ! 4121: ! 4122: <orglist> ! 4123: <member><name>Jon Bosak, Sun</name><role>Chair</role></member> ! 4124: <member><name>James Clark</name><role>Technical Lead</role></member> ! 4125: <member><name>Tim Bray, Textuality and Netscape</name><role>XML Co-editor</role></member> ! 4126: <member><name>Jean Paoli, Microsoft</name><role>XML Co-editor</role></member> ! 4127: <member><name>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, U. of Ill.</name><role>XML ! 4128: Co-editor</role></member> ! 4129: <member><name>Dan Connolly, W3C</name><role>W3C Liaison</role></member> ! 4130: <member><name>Paula Angerstein, Texcel</name></member> ! 4131: <member><name>Steve DeRose, INSO</name></member> ! 4132: <member><name>Dave Hollander, HP</name></member> ! 4133: <member><name>Eliot Kimber, ISOGEN</name></member> ! 4134: <member><name>Eve Maler, ArborText</name></member> ! 4135: <member><name>Tom Magliery, NCSA</name></member> ! 4136: <member><name>Murray Maloney, Muzmo and Grif</name></member> ! 4137: <member><name>Makoto Murata, Fuji Xerox Information Systems</name></member> ! 4138: <member><name>Joel Nava, Adobe</name></member> ! 4139: <member><name>Conleth O'Connell, Vignette</name></member> ! 4140: <member><name>Peter Sharpe, SoftQuad</name></member> ! 4141: <member><name>John Tigue, DataChannel</name></member> ! 4142: </orglist> ! 4143: ! 4144: </inform-div1> ! 4145: </back> ! 4146: </spec> ! 4147: <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file ! 4148: Local variables: ! 4149: mode: sgml ! 4150: sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/sgml/spec.ced" ! 4151: sgml-omittag:t ! 4152: sgml-shorttag:t ! 4153: End: ! 4154: -->