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4 <!-- LAST TOUCHED BY: Tim Bray, 8 February 1997 -->
5
6 <!-- The words 'FINAL EDIT' in comments mark places where changes
7 need to be made after approval of the document by the ERB, before
8 publication. -->
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10 <!ENTITY XML.version "1.0">
11 <!ENTITY doc.date "10 February 1998">
12 <!ENTITY iso6.doc.date "19980210">
13 <!ENTITY w3c.doc.date "02-Feb-1998">
14 <!ENTITY draft.day '10'>
15 <!ENTITY draft.month 'February'>
16 <!ENTITY draft.year '1998'>
17
18 <!ENTITY WebSGML
19 'WebSGML Adaptations Annex to ISO 8879'>
20
21 <!ENTITY lt "<">
22 <!ENTITY gt ">">
23 <!ENTITY xmlpio "'&lt;?xml'">
24 <!ENTITY pic "'?>'">
25 <!ENTITY br "\n">
26 <!ENTITY cellback '#c0d9c0'>
27 <!ENTITY mdash "--"> <!-- &#x2014, but nsgmls doesn't grok hex -->
28 <!ENTITY com "--">
29 <!ENTITY como "--">
30 <!ENTITY comc "--">
31 <!ENTITY hcro "&amp;#x">
32 <!-- <!ENTITY nbsp " "> -->
33 <!ENTITY nbsp "&#160;">
34 <!ENTITY magicents "<code>amp</code>,
35 <code>lt</code>,
36 <code>gt</code>,
37 <code>apos</code>,
38 <code>quot</code>">
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40 <!-- audience and distribution status: for use at publication time -->
41 <!ENTITY doc.audience "public review and discussion">
42 <!ENTITY doc.distribution "may be distributed freely, as long as
43 all text and legal notices remain intact">
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48 <?VERBATIM "eg" ?>
49
50 <spec>
51 <header>
52 <title>Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0</title>
53 <version></version>
54 <w3c-designation>REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;</w3c-designation>
55 <w3c-doctype>W3C Recommendation</w3c-doctype>
56 <pubdate><day>&draft.day;</day><month>&draft.month;</month><year>&draft.year;</year></pubdate>
57
58 <publoc>
59 <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;">
60 http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;</loc>
61 <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.xml">
62 http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.xml</loc>
63 <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.html">
64 http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.html</loc>
65 <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.pdf">
66 http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.pdf</loc>
67 <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.ps">
68 http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.ps</loc>
69 </publoc>
70 <latestloc>
71 <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">
72 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</loc>
73 </latestloc>
74 <prevlocs>
75 <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208">
76 http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208</loc>
77 <!--
78 <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114'>
79 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114</loc>
80 <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331'>
81 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331</loc>
82 <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970630'>
83 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970630</loc>
84 <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-970807'>
85 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-970807</loc>
86 <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-971117'>
87 http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-971117</loc>-->
88 </prevlocs>
89 <authlist>
90 <author><name>Tim Bray</name>
91 <affiliation>Textuality and Netscape</affiliation>
92 <email
93 href="mailto:tbray@textuality.com">tbray@textuality.com</email></author>
94 <author><name>Jean Paoli</name>
95 <affiliation>Microsoft</affiliation>
96 <email href="mailto:jeanpa@microsoft.com">jeanpa@microsoft.com</email></author>
97 <author><name>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen</name>
98 <affiliation>University of Illinois at Chicago</affiliation>
99 <email href="mailto:cmsmcq@uic.edu">cmsmcq@uic.edu</email></author>
100 </authlist>
101 <abstract>
102 <p>The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of
103 SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to
104 enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web
105 in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for
106 ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and
107 HTML.</p>
108 </abstract>
109 <status>
110 <p>This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and
111 other interested parties and has been endorsed by the
112 Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable
113 document and may be used as reference material or cited
114 as a normative reference from another document. W3C's
115 role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention
116 to the specification and to promote its widespread
117 deployment. This enhances the functionality and
118 interoperability of the Web.</p>
119 <p>
120 This document specifies a syntax created by subsetting an existing,
121 widely used international text processing standard (Standard
122 Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986(E) as amended and
123 corrected) for use on the World Wide Web. It is a product of the W3C
124 XML Activity, details of which can be found at <loc
125 href='http://www.w3.org/XML'>http://www.w3.org/XML</loc>. A list of
126 current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found
127 at <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR'>http://www.w3.org/TR</loc>.
128 </p>
129 <p>This specification uses the term URI, which is defined by <bibref
130 ref="Berners-Lee"/>, a work in progress expected to update <bibref
131 ref="RFC1738"/> and <bibref ref="RFC1808"/>.
132 </p>
133 <p>The list of known errors in this specification is
134 available at
135 <loc href='http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata'>http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata</loc>.</p>
136 <p>Please report errors in this document to
137 <loc href='mailto:xml-editor@w3.org'>xml-editor@w3.org</loc>.
138 </p>
139 </status>
140
141
142 <pubstmt>
143 <p>Chicago, Vancouver, Mountain View, et al.:
144 World-Wide Web Consortium, XML Working Group, 1996, 1997.</p>
145 </pubstmt>
146 <sourcedesc>
147 <p>Created in electronic form.</p>
148 </sourcedesc>
149 <langusage>
150 <language id='EN'>English</language>
151 <language id='ebnf'>Extended Backus-Naur Form (formal grammar)</language>
152 </langusage>
153 <revisiondesc>
154 <slist>
155 <sitem>1997-12-03 : CMSMcQ : yet further changes</sitem>
156 <sitem>1997-12-02 : TB : further changes (see TB to XML WG,
157 2 December 1997)</sitem>
158 <sitem>1997-12-02 : CMSMcQ : deal with as many corrections and
159 comments from the proofreaders as possible:
160 entify hard-coded document date in pubdate element,
161 change expansion of entity WebSGML,
162 update status description as per Dan Connolly (am not sure
163 about refernece to Berners-Lee et al.),
164 add 'The' to abstract as per WG decision,
165 move Relationship to Existing Standards to back matter and
166 combine with References,
167 re-order back matter so normative appendices come first,
168 re-tag back matter so informative appendices are tagged informdiv1,
169 remove XXX XXX from list of 'normative' specs in prose,
170 move some references from Other References to Normative References,
171 add RFC 1738, 1808, and 2141 to Other References (they are not
172 normative since we do not require the processor to enforce any
173 rules based on them),
174 add reference to 'Fielding draft' (Berners-Lee et al.),
175 move notation section to end of body,
176 drop URIchar non-terminal and use SkipLit instead,
177 lose stray reference to defunct nonterminal 'markupdecls',
178 move reference to Aho et al. into appendix (Tim's right),
179 add prose note saying that hash marks and fragment identifiers are
180 NOT part of the URI formally speaking, and are NOT legal in
181 system identifiers (processor 'may' signal an error).
182 Work through:
183 Tim Bray reacting to James Clark,
184 Tim Bray on his own,
185 Eve Maler,
186
187 NOT DONE YET:
188 change binary / text to unparsed / parsed.
189 handle James's suggestion about &lt; in attriubte values
190 uppercase hex characters,
191 namechar list,
192 </sitem>
193 <sitem>1997-12-01 : JB : add some column-width parameters</sitem>
194 <sitem>1997-12-01 : CMSMcQ : begin round of changes to incorporate
195 recent WG decisions and other corrections:
196 binding sources of character encoding info (27 Aug / 3 Sept),
197 correct wording of Faust quotation (restore dropped line),
198 drop SDD from EncodingDecl,
199 change text at version number 1.0,
200 drop misleading (wrong!) sentence about ignorables and extenders,
201 modify definition of PCData to make bar on msc grammatical,
202 change grammar's handling of internal subset (drop non-terminal markupdecls),
203 change definition of includeSect to allow conditional sections,
204 add integral-declaration constraint on internal subset,
205 drop misleading / dangerous sentence about relationship of
206 entities with system storage objects,
207 change table body tag to htbody as per EM change to DTD,
208 add rule about space normalization in public identifiers,
209 add description of how to generate our name-space rules from
210 Unicode character database (needs further work!).
211 </sitem>
212 <sitem>1997-10-08 : TB : Removed %-constructs again, new rules
213 for PE appearance.</sitem>
214 <sitem>1997-10-01 : TB : Case-sensitive markup; cleaned up
215 element-type defs, lotsa little edits for style</sitem>
216 <sitem>1997-09-25 : TB : Change to elm's new DTD, with
217 substantial detail cleanup as a side-effect</sitem>
218 <sitem>1997-07-24 : CMSMcQ : correct error (lost *) in definition
219 of ignoreSectContents (thanks to Makoto Murata)</sitem>
220 <sitem>Allow all empty elements to have end-tags, consistent with
221 SGML TC (as per JJC).</sitem>
222 <sitem>1997-07-23 : CMSMcQ : pre-emptive strike on pending corrections:
223 introduce the term 'empty-element tag', note that all empty elements
224 may use it, and elements declared EMPTY must use it.
225 Add WFC requiring encoding decl to come first in an entity.
226 Redefine notations to point to PIs as well as binary entities.
227 Change autodetection table by removing bytes 3 and 4 from
228 examples with Byte Order Mark.
229 Add content model as a term and clarify that it applies to both
230 mixed and element content.
231 </sitem>
232 <sitem>1997-06-30 : CMSMcQ : change date, some cosmetic changes,
233 changes to productions for choice, seq, Mixed, NotationType,
234 Enumeration. Follow James Clark's suggestion and prohibit
235 conditional sections in internal subset. TO DO: simplify
236 production for ignored sections as a result, since we don't
237 need to worry about parsers which don't expand PErefs finding
238 a conditional section.</sitem>
239 <sitem>1997-06-29 : TB : various edits</sitem>
240 <sitem>1997-06-29 : CMSMcQ : further changes:
241 Suppress old FINAL EDIT comments and some dead material.
242 Revise occurrences of % in grammar to exploit Henry Thompson's pun,
243 especially markupdecl and attdef.
244 Remove RMD requirement relating to element content (?).
245 </sitem>
246 <sitem>1997-06-28 : CMSMcQ : Various changes for 1 July draft:
247 Add text for draconian error handling (introduce
248 the term Fatal Error).
249 RE deleta est (changing wording from
250 original announcement to restrict the requirement to validating
251 parsers).
252 Tag definition of validating processor and link to it.
253 Add colon as name character.
254 Change def of %operator.
255 Change standard definitions of lt, gt, amp.
256 Strip leading zeros from #x00nn forms.</sitem>
257 <sitem>1997-04-02 : CMSMcQ : final corrections of editorial errors
258 found in last night's proofreading. Reverse course once more on
259 well-formed: Webster's Second hyphenates it, and that's enough
260 for me.</sitem>
261 <sitem>1997-04-01 : CMSMcQ : corrections from JJC, EM, HT, and self</sitem>
262 <sitem>1997-03-31 : Tim Bray : many changes</sitem>
263 <sitem>1997-03-29 : CMSMcQ : some Henry Thompson (on entity handling),
264 some Charles Goldfarb, some ERB decisions (PE handling in miscellaneous
265 declarations. Changed Ident element to accept def attribute.
266 Allow normalization of Unicode characters. move def of systemliteral
267 into section on literals.</sitem>
268 <sitem>1997-03-28 : CMSMcQ : make as many corrections as possible, from
269 Terry Allen, Norbert Mikula, James Clark, Jon Bosak, Henry Thompson,
270 Paul Grosso, and self. Among other things: give in on "well formed"
271 (Terry is right), tentatively rename QuotedCData as AttValue
272 and Literal as EntityValue to be more informative, since attribute
273 values are the <emph>only</emph> place QuotedCData was used, and
274 vice versa for entity text and Literal. (I'd call it Entity Text,
275 but 8879 uses that name for both internal and external entities.)</sitem>
276 <sitem>1997-03-26 : CMSMcQ : resynch the two forks of this draft, reapply
277 my changes dated 03-20 and 03-21. Normalize old 'may not' to 'must not'
278 except in the one case where it meant 'may or may not'.</sitem>
279 <sitem>1997-03-21 : TB : massive changes on plane flight from Chicago
280 to Vancouver</sitem>
281 <sitem>1997-03-21 : CMSMcQ : correct as many reported errors as possible.
282 </sitem>
283 <sitem>1997-03-20 : CMSMcQ : correct typos listed in CMSMcQ hand copy of spec.</sitem>
284 <sitem>1997-03-20 : CMSMcQ : cosmetic changes preparatory to revision for
285 WWW conference April 1997: restore some of the internal entity
286 references (e.g. to docdate, etc.), change character xA0 to &amp;nbsp;
287 and define nbsp as &amp;#160;, and refill a lot of paragraphs for
288 legibility.</sitem>
289 <sitem>1996-11-12 : CMSMcQ : revise using Tim's edits:
290 Add list type of NUMBERED and change most lists either to
291 BULLETS or to NUMBERED.
292 Suppress QuotedNames, Names (not used).
293 Correct trivial-grammar doc type decl.
294 Rename 'marked section' as 'CDATA section' passim.
295 Also edits from James Clark:
296 Define the set of characters from which [^abc] subtracts.
297 Charref should use just [0-9] not Digit.
298 Location info needs cleaner treatment: remove? (ERB
299 question).
300 One example of a PI has wrong pic.
301 Clarify discussion of encoding names.
302 Encoding failure should lead to unspecified results; don't
303 prescribe error recovery.
304 Don't require exposure of entity boundaries.
305 Ignore white space in element content.
306 Reserve entity names of the form u-NNNN.
307 Clarify relative URLs.
308 And some of my own:
309 Correct productions for content model: model cannot
310 consist of a name, so "elements ::= cp" is no good.
311 </sitem>
312 <sitem>1996-11-11 : CMSMcQ : revise for style.
313 Add new rhs to entity declaration, for parameter entities.</sitem>
314 <sitem>1996-11-10 : CMSMcQ : revise for style.
315 Fix / complete section on names, characters.
316 Add sections on parameter entities, conditional sections.
317 Still to do: Add compatibility note on deterministic content models.
318 Finish stylistic revision.</sitem>
319 <sitem>1996-10-31 : TB : Add Entity Handling section</sitem>
320 <sitem>1996-10-30 : TB : Clean up term &amp; termdef. Slip in
321 ERB decision re EMPTY.</sitem>
322 <sitem>1996-10-28 : TB : Change DTD. Implement some of Michael's
323 suggestions. Change comments back to //. Introduce language for
324 XML namespace reservation. Add section on white-space handling.
325 Lots more cleanup.</sitem>
326 <sitem>1996-10-24 : CMSMcQ : quick tweaks, implement some ERB
327 decisions. Characters are not integers. Comments are /* */ not //.
328 Add bibliographic refs to 10646, HyTime, Unicode.
329 Rename old Cdata as MsData since it's <emph>only</emph> seen
330 in marked sections. Call them attribute-value pairs not
331 name-value pairs, except once. Internal subset is optional, needs
332 '?'. Implied attributes should be signaled to the app, not
333 have values supplied by processor.</sitem>
334 <sitem>1996-10-16 : TB : track down &amp; excise all DSD references;
335 introduce some EBNF for entity declarations.</sitem>
336 <sitem>1996-10-?? : TB : consistency check, fix up scraps so
337 they all parse, get formatter working, correct a few productions.</sitem>
338 <sitem>1996-10-10/11 : CMSMcQ : various maintenance, stylistic, and
339 organizational changes:
340 Replace a few literals with xmlpio and
341 pic entities, to make them consistent and ensure we can change pic
342 reliably when the ERB votes.
343 Drop paragraph on recognizers from notation section.
344 Add match, exact match to terminology.
345 Move old 2.2 XML Processors and Apps into intro.
346 Mention comments, PIs, and marked sections in discussion of
347 delimiter escaping.
348 Streamline discussion of doctype decl syntax.
349 Drop old section of 'PI syntax' for doctype decl, and add
350 section on partial-DTD summary PIs to end of Logical Structures
351 section.
352 Revise DSD syntax section to use Tim's subset-in-a-PI
353 mechanism.</sitem>
354 <sitem>1996-10-10 : TB : eliminate name recognizers (and more?)</sitem>
355 <sitem>1996-10-09 : CMSMcQ : revise for style, consistency through 2.3
356 (Characters)</sitem>
357 <sitem>1996-10-09 : CMSMcQ : re-unite everything for convenience,
358 at least temporarily, and revise quickly</sitem>
359 <sitem>1996-10-08 : TB : first major homogenization pass</sitem>
360 <sitem>1996-10-08 : TB : turn "current" attribute on div type into
361 CDATA</sitem>
362 <sitem>1996-10-02 : TB : remould into skeleton + entities</sitem>
363 <sitem>1996-09-30 : CMSMcQ : add a few more sections prior to exchange
364 with Tim.</sitem>
365 <sitem>1996-09-20 : CMSMcQ : finish transcribing notes.</sitem>
366 <sitem>1996-09-19 : CMSMcQ : begin transcribing notes for draft.</sitem>
367 <sitem>1996-09-13 : CMSMcQ : made outline from notes of 09-06,
368 do some housekeeping</sitem>
369 </slist>
370 </revisiondesc>
371 </header>
372 <body>
373 <div1 id='sec-intro'>
374 <head>Introduction</head>
375 <p>Extensible Markup Language, abbreviated XML, describes a class of
376 data objects called <termref def="dt-xml-doc">XML documents</termref> and
377 partially describes the behavior of
378 computer programs which process them. XML is an application profile or
379 restricted form of SGML, the Standard Generalized Markup
380 Language <bibref ref='ISO8879'/>.
381 By construction, XML documents
382 are conforming SGML documents.
383 </p>
384 <p>XML documents are made up of storage units called <termref
385 def="dt-entity">entities</termref>, which contain either parsed
386 or unparsed data.
387 Parsed data is made up of <termref def="dt-character">characters</termref>,
388 some
389 of which form <termref def="dt-chardata">character data</termref>,
390 and some of which form <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>.
391 Markup encodes a description of the document's storage layout and
392 logical structure. XML provides a mechanism to impose constraints on
393 the storage layout and logical structure.</p>
394 <p><termdef id="dt-xml-proc" term="XML Processor">A software module
395 called an <term>XML processor</term> is used to read XML documents
396 and provide access to their content and structure.</termdef> <termdef
397 id="dt-app" term="Application">It is assumed that an XML processor is
398 doing its work on behalf of another module, called the
399 <term>application</term>.</termdef> This specification describes the
400 required behavior of an XML processor in terms of how it must read XML
401 data and the information it must provide to the application.</p>
402
403 <div2 id='sec-origin-goals'>
404 <head>Origin and Goals</head>
405 <p>XML was developed by an XML Working Group (originally known as the
406 SGML Editorial Review Board) formed under the auspices of the World
407 Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in 1996.
408 It was chaired by Jon Bosak of Sun
409 Microsystems with the active participation of an XML Special
410 Interest Group (previously known as the SGML Working Group) also
411 organized by the W3C. The membership of the XML Working Group is given
412 in an appendix. Dan Connolly served as the WG's contact with the W3C.
413 </p>
414 <p>The design goals for XML are:<olist>
415 <item><p>XML shall be straightforwardly usable over the
416 Internet.</p></item>
417 <item><p>XML shall support a wide variety of applications.</p></item>
418 <item><p>XML shall be compatible with SGML.</p></item>
419 <item><p>It shall be easy to write programs which process XML
420 documents.</p></item>
421 <item><p>The number of optional features in XML is to be kept to the
422 absolute minimum, ideally zero.</p></item>
423 <item><p>XML documents should be human-legible and reasonably
424 clear.</p></item>
425 <item><p>The XML design should be prepared quickly.</p></item>
426 <item><p>The design of XML shall be formal and concise.</p></item>
427 <item><p>XML documents shall be easy to create.</p></item>
428 <item><p>Terseness in XML markup is of minimal importance.</p></item></olist>
429 </p>
430 <p>This specification,
431 together with associated standards
432 (Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 for characters,
433 Internet RFC 1766 for language identification tags,
434 ISO 639 for language name codes, and
435 ISO 3166 for country name codes),
436 provides all the information necessary to understand
437 XML Version &XML.version;
438 and construct computer programs to process it.</p>
439 <p>This version of the XML specification
440 <!-- is for &doc.audience;.-->
441 &doc.distribution;.</p>
442
443 </div2>
444
445
446
447
448 <div2 id='sec-terminology'>
449 <head>Terminology</head>
450
451 <p>The terminology used to describe XML documents is defined in the body of
452 this specification.
453 The terms defined in the following list are used in building those
454 definitions and in describing the actions of an XML processor:
455 <glist>
456 <gitem>
457 <label>may</label>
458 <def><p><termdef id="dt-may" term="May">Conforming documents and XML
459 processors are permitted to but need not behave as
460 described.</termdef></p></def>
461 </gitem>
462 <gitem>
463 <label>must</label>
464 <def><p>Conforming documents and XML processors
465 are required to behave as described; otherwise they are in error.
466 <!-- do NOT change this! this is what defines a violation of
467 a 'must' clause as 'an error'. -MSM -->
468 </p></def>
469 </gitem>
470 <gitem>
471 <label>error</label>
472 <def><p><termdef id='dt-error' term='Error'
473 >A violation of the rules of this
474 specification; results are
475 undefined. Conforming software may detect and report an error and may
476 recover from it.</termdef></p></def>
477 </gitem>
478 <gitem>
479 <label>fatal error</label>
480 <def><p><termdef id="dt-fatal" term="Fatal Error">An error
481 which a conforming <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref>
482 must detect and report to the application.
483 After encountering a fatal error, the
484 processor may continue
485 processing the data to search for further errors and may report such
486 errors to the application. In order to support correction of errors,
487 the processor may make unprocessed data from the document (with
488 intermingled character data and markup) available to the application.
489 Once a fatal error is detected, however, the processor must not
490 continue normal processing (i.e., it must not
491 continue to pass character data and information about the document's
492 logical structure to the application in the normal way).
493 </termdef></p></def>
494 </gitem>
495 <gitem>
496 <label>at user option</label>
497 <def><p>Conforming software may or must (depending on the modal verb in the
498 sentence) behave as described; if it does, it must
499 provide users a means to enable or disable the behavior
500 described.</p></def>
501 </gitem>
502 <gitem>
503 <label>validity constraint</label>
504 <def><p>A rule which applies to all
505 <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> XML documents.
506 Violations of validity constraints are errors; they must, at user option,
507 be reported by
508 <termref def="dt-validating">validating XML processors</termref>.</p></def>
509 </gitem>
510 <gitem>
511 <label>well-formedness constraint</label>
512 <def><p>A rule which applies to all <termref
513 def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> XML documents.
514 Violations of well-formedness constraints are
515 <termref def="dt-fatal">fatal errors</termref>.</p></def>
516 </gitem>
517
518 <gitem>
519 <label>match</label>
520 <def><p><termdef id="dt-match" term="match">(Of strings or names:)
521 Two strings or names being compared must be identical.
522 Characters with multiple possible representations in ISO/IEC 10646 (e.g.
523 characters with
524 both precomposed and base+diacritic forms) match only if they have the
525 same representation in both strings.
526 At user option, processors may normalize such characters to
527 some canonical form.
528 No case folding is performed.
529 (Of strings and rules in the grammar:)
530 A string matches a grammatical production if it belongs to the
531 language generated by that production.
532 (Of content and content models:)
533 An element matches its declaration when it conforms
534 in the fashion described in the constraint
535 <specref ref='elementvalid'/>.
536 </termdef>
537 </p></def>
538 </gitem>
539 <gitem>
540 <label>for compatibility</label>
541 <def><p><termdef id="dt-compat" term="For Compatibility">A feature of
542 XML included solely to ensure that XML remains compatible with SGML.
543 </termdef></p></def>
544 </gitem>
545 <gitem>
546 <label>for interoperability</label>
547 <def><p><termdef id="dt-interop" term="For interoperability">A
548 non-binding recommendation included to increase the chances that XML
549 documents can be processed by the existing installed base of SGML
550 processors which predate the
551 &WebSGML;.</termdef></p></def>
552 </gitem>
553 </glist>
554 </p>
555 </div2>
556
557
558 </div1>
559 <!-- &Docs; -->
560
561 <div1 id='sec-documents'>
562 <head>Documents</head>
563
564 <p><termdef id="dt-xml-doc" term="XML Document">
565 A data object is an
566 <term>XML document</term> if it is
567 <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref>, as
568 defined in this specification.
569 A well-formed XML document may in addition be
570 <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> if it meets certain further
571 constraints.</termdef></p>
572
573 <p>Each XML document has both a logical and a physical structure.
574 Physically, the document is composed of units called <termref
575 def="dt-entity">entities</termref>. An entity may <termref
576 def="dt-entref">refer</termref> to other entities to cause their
577 inclusion in the document. A document begins in a "root" or <termref
578 def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>.
579 Logically, the document is composed of declarations, elements,
580 comments,
581 character references, and
582 processing
583 instructions, all of which are indicated in the document by explicit
584 markup.
585 The logical and physical structures must nest properly, as described
586 in <specref ref='wf-entities'/>.
587 </p>
588
589 <div2 id='sec-well-formed'>
590 <head>Well-Formed XML Documents</head>
591
592 <p><termdef id="dt-wellformed" term="Well-Formed">
593 A textual object is
594 a well-formed XML document if:</termdef>
595 <olist>
596 <item><p>Taken as a whole, it
597 matches the production labeled <nt def='NT-document'>document</nt>.</p></item>
598 <item><p>It
599 meets all the well-formedness constraints given in this specification.</p>
600 </item>
601 <item><p>Each of the <termref def='dt-parsedent'>parsed entities</termref>
602 which is referenced directly or indirectly within the document is
603 <titleref href='wf-entities'>well-formed</titleref>.</p></item>
604 </olist></p>
605 <p>
606 <scrap lang='ebnf' id='document'>
607 <head>Document</head>
608 <prod id='NT-document'><lhs>document</lhs>
609 <rhs><nt def='NT-prolog'>prolog</nt>
610 <nt def='NT-element'>element</nt>
611 <nt def='NT-Misc'>Misc</nt>*</rhs></prod>
612 </scrap>
613 </p>
614 <p>Matching the <nt def="NT-document">document</nt> production
615 implies that:
616 <olist>
617 <item><p>It contains one or more
618 <termref def="dt-element">elements</termref>.</p>
619 </item>
620 <!--* N.B. some readers (notably JC) find the following
621 paragraph awkward and redundant. I agree it's logically redundant:
622 it *says* it is summarizing the logical implications of
623 matching the grammar, and that means by definition it's
624 logically redundant. I don't think it's rhetorically
625 redundant or unnecessary, though, so I'm keeping it. It
626 could however use some recasting when the editors are feeling
627 stronger. -MSM *-->
628 <item><p><termdef id="dt-root" term="Root Element">There is exactly
629 one element, called the <term>root</term>, or document element, no
630 part of which appears in the <termref
631 def="dt-content">content</termref> of any other element.</termdef>
632 For all other elements, if the start-tag is in the content of another
633 element, the end-tag is in the content of the same element. More
634 simply stated, the elements, delimited by start- and end-tags, nest
635 properly within each other.
636 </p></item>
637 </olist>
638 </p>
639 <p><termdef id="dt-parentchild" term="Parent/Child">As a consequence
640 of this,
641 for each non-root element
642 <code>C</code> in the document, there is one other element <code>P</code>
643 in the document such that
644 <code>C</code> is in the content of <code>P</code>, but is not in
645 the content of any other element that is in the content of
646 <code>P</code>.
647 <code>P</code> is referred to as the
648 <term>parent</term> of <code>C</code>, and <code>C</code> as a
649 <term>child</term> of <code>P</code>.</termdef></p></div2>
650
651 <div2 id="charsets">
652 <head>Characters</head>
653
654 <p><termdef id="dt-text" term="Text">A parsed entity contains
655 <term>text</term>, a sequence of
656 <termref def="dt-character">characters</termref>,
657 which may represent markup or character data.</termdef>
658 <termdef id="dt-character" term="Character">A <term>character</term>
659 is an atomic unit of text as specified by
660 ISO/IEC 10646 <bibref ref="ISO10646"/>.
661 Legal characters are tab, carriage return, line feed, and the legal
662 graphic characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646.
663 The use of "compatibility characters", as defined in section 6.8
664 of <bibref ref='Unicode'/>, is discouraged.
665 </termdef>
666 <scrap lang="ebnf" id="char32">
667 <head>Character Range</head>
668 <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="11">
669 <prod id="NT-Char"><lhs>Char</lhs>
670 <rhs>#x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD]
671 | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]</rhs>
672 <com>any Unicode character, excluding the
673 surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF.</com> </prod>
674 </prodgroup>
675 </scrap>
676 </p>
677
678 <p>The mechanism for encoding character code points into bit patterns may
679 vary from entity to entity. All XML processors must accept the UTF-8
680 and UTF-16 encodings of 10646; the mechanisms for signaling which of
681 the two is in use, or for bringing other encodings into play, are
682 discussed later, in <specref ref='charencoding'/>.
683 </p>
684 <!--
685 <p>Regardless of the specific encoding used, any character in the ISO/IEC
686 10646 character set may be referred to by the decimal or hexadecimal
687 equivalent of its
688 UCS-4 code value.
689 </p>-->
690 </div2>
691
692 <div2 id='sec-common-syn'>
693 <head>Common Syntactic Constructs</head>
694
695 <p>This section defines some symbols used widely in the grammar.</p>
696 <p><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> (white space) consists of one or more space (#x20)
697 characters, carriage returns, line feeds, or tabs.
698
699 <scrap lang="ebnf" id='white'>
700 <head>White Space</head>
701 <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="11">
702 <prod id='NT-S'><lhs>S</lhs>
703 <rhs>(#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+</rhs>
704 </prod>
705 </prodgroup>
706 </scrap></p>
707 <p>Characters are classified for convenience as letters, digits, or other
708 characters. Letters consist of an alphabetic or syllabic
709 base character possibly
710 followed by one or more combining characters, or of an ideographic
711 character.
712 Full definitions of the specific characters in each class
713 are given in <specref ref='CharClasses'/>.</p>
714 <p><termdef id="dt-name" term="Name">A <term>Name</term> is a token
715 beginning with a letter or one of a few punctuation characters, and continuing
716 with letters, digits, hyphens, underscores, colons, or full stops, together
717 known as name characters.</termdef>
718 Names beginning with the string "<code>xml</code>", or any string
719 which would match <code>(('X'|'x') ('M'|'m') ('L'|'l'))</code>, are
720 reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this
721 specification.
722 </p>
723 <note>
724 <p>The colon character within XML names is reserved for experimentation with
725 name spaces.
726 Its meaning is expected to be
727 standardized at some future point, at which point those documents
728 using the colon for experimental purposes may need to be updated.
729 (There is no guarantee that any name-space mechanism
730 adopted for XML will in fact use the colon as a name-space delimiter.)
731 In practice, this means that authors should not use the colon in XML
732 names except as part of name-space experiments, but that XML processors
733 should accept the colon as a name character.</p>
734 </note>
735 <p>An
736 <nt def='NT-Nmtoken'>Nmtoken</nt> (name token) is any mixture of
737 name characters.
738 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
739 <head>Names and Tokens</head>
740 <prod id='NT-NameChar'><lhs>NameChar</lhs>
741 <rhs><nt def="NT-Letter">Letter</nt>
742 | <nt def='NT-Digit'>Digit</nt>
743 | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':'
744 | <nt def='NT-CombiningChar'>CombiningChar</nt>
745 | <nt def='NT-Extender'>Extender</nt></rhs>
746 </prod>
747 <prod id='NT-Name'><lhs>Name</lhs>
748 <rhs>(<nt def='NT-Letter'>Letter</nt> | '_' | ':')
749 (<nt def='NT-NameChar'>NameChar</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
750 <prod id='NT-Names'><lhs>Names</lhs>
751 <rhs><nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
752 (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
753 <prod id='NT-Nmtoken'><lhs>Nmtoken</lhs>
754 <rhs>(<nt def='NT-NameChar'>NameChar</nt>)+</rhs></prod>
755 <prod id='NT-Nmtokens'><lhs>Nmtokens</lhs>
756 <rhs><nt def='NT-Nmtoken'>Nmtoken</nt> (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-Nmtoken'>Nmtoken</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
757 </scrap>
758 </p>
759 <p>Literal data is any quoted string not containing
760 the quotation mark used as a delimiter for that string.
761 Literals are used
762 for specifying the content of internal entities
763 (<nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt>),
764 the values of attributes (<nt def='NT-AttValue'>AttValue</nt>),
765 and external identifiers
766 (<nt def="NT-SystemLiteral">SystemLiteral</nt>).
767 Note that a <nt def='NT-SystemLiteral'>SystemLiteral</nt>
768 can be parsed without scanning for markup.
769 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
770 <head>Literals</head>
771 <prod id='NT-EntityValue'><lhs>EntityValue</lhs>
772 <rhs>'"'
773 ([^%&amp;"]
774 | <nt def='NT-PEReference'>PEReference</nt>
775 | <nt def='NT-Reference'>Reference</nt>)*
776 '"'
777 </rhs>
778 <rhs>|&nbsp;
779 "'"
780 ([^%&amp;']
781 | <nt def='NT-PEReference'>PEReference</nt>
782 | <nt def='NT-Reference'>Reference</nt>)*
783 "'"</rhs>
784 </prod>
785 <prod id='NT-AttValue'><lhs>AttValue</lhs>
786 <rhs>'"'
787 ([^&lt;&amp;"]
788 | <nt def='NT-Reference'>Reference</nt>)*
789 '"'
790 </rhs>
791 <rhs>|&nbsp;
792 "'"
793 ([^&lt;&amp;']
794 | <nt def='NT-Reference'>Reference</nt>)*
795 "'"</rhs>
796 </prod>
797 <prod id="NT-SystemLiteral"><lhs>SystemLiteral</lhs>
798 <rhs>('"' [^"]* '"') |&nbsp;("'" [^']* "'")
799 </rhs>
800 </prod>
801 <prod id="NT-PubidLiteral"><lhs>PubidLiteral</lhs>
802 <rhs>'"' <nt def='NT-PubidChar'>PubidChar</nt>*
803 '"'
804 | "'" (<nt def='NT-PubidChar'>PubidChar</nt> - "'")* "'"</rhs>
805 </prod>
806 <prod id="NT-PubidChar"><lhs>PubidChar</lhs>
807 <rhs>#x20 | #xD | #xA
808 |&nbsp;[a-zA-Z0-9]
809 |&nbsp;[-'()+,./:=?;!*#@$_%]</rhs>
810 </prod>
811 </scrap>
812 </p>
813
814 </div2>
815
816 <div2 id='syntax'>
817 <head>Character Data and Markup</head>
818
819 <p><termref def='dt-text'>Text</termref> consists of intermingled
820 <termref def="dt-chardata">character
821 data</termref> and markup.
822 <termdef id="dt-markup" term="Markup"><term>Markup</term> takes the form of
823 <termref def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref>,
824 <termref def="dt-etag">end-tags</termref>,
825 <termref def="dt-empty">empty-element tags</termref>,
826 <termref def="dt-entref">entity references</termref>,
827 <termref def="dt-charref">character references</termref>,
828 <termref def="dt-comment">comments</termref>,
829 <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref> delimiters,
830 <termref def="dt-doctype">document type declarations</termref>, and
831 <termref def="dt-pi">processing instructions</termref>.
832 </termdef>
833 </p>
834 <p><termdef id="dt-chardata" term="Character Data">All text that is not markup
835 constitutes the <term>character data</term> of
836 the document.</termdef></p>
837 <p>The ampersand character (&amp;) and the left angle bracket (&lt;)
838 may appear in their literal form <emph>only</emph> when used as markup
839 delimiters, or within a <termref def="dt-comment">comment</termref>, a
840 <termref def="dt-pi">processing instruction</termref>,
841 or a <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref>.
842
843 They are also legal within the <termref def='dt-litentval'>literal entity
844 value</termref> of an internal entity declaration; see
845 <specref ref='wf-entities'/>.
846 <!-- FINAL EDIT: restore internal entity decl or leave it out. -->
847 If they are needed elsewhere,
848 they must be <termref def="dt-escape">escaped</termref>
849 using either <termref def='dt-charref'>numeric character references</termref>
850 or the strings
851 "<code>&amp;amp;</code>" and "<code>&amp;lt;</code>" respectively.
852 The right angle
853 bracket (>) may be represented using the string
854 "<code>&amp;gt;</code>", and must, <termref def='dt-compat'>for
855 compatibility</termref>,
856 be escaped using
857 "<code>&amp;gt;</code>" or a character reference
858 when it appears in the string
859 "<code>]]&gt;</code>"
860 in content,
861 when that string is not marking the end of
862 a <termref def="dt-cdsection">CDATA section</termref>.
863 </p>
864 <p>
865 In the content of elements, character data
866 is any string of characters which does
867 not contain the start-delimiter of any markup.
868 In a CDATA section, character data
869 is any string of characters not including the CDATA-section-close
870 delimiter, "<code>]]&gt;</code>".</p>
871 <p>
872 To allow attribute values to contain both single and double quotes, the
873 apostrophe or single-quote character (') may be represented as
874 "<code>&amp;apos;</code>", and the double-quote character (") as
875 "<code>&amp;quot;</code>".
876 <scrap lang="ebnf">
877 <head>Character Data</head>
878 <prod id='NT-CharData'>
879 <lhs>CharData</lhs>
880 <rhs>[^&lt;&amp;]* - ([^&lt;&amp;]* ']]&gt;' [^&lt;&amp;]*)</rhs>
881 </prod>
882 </scrap>
883 </p>
884 </div2>
885
886 <div2 id='sec-comments'>
887 <head>Comments</head>
888
889 <p><termdef id="dt-comment" term="Comment"><term>Comments</term> may
890 appear anywhere in a document outside other
891 <termref def='dt-markup'>markup</termref>; in addition,
892 they may appear within the document type declaration
893 at places allowed by the grammar.
894 They are not part of the document's <termref def="dt-chardata">character
895 data</termref>; an XML
896 processor may, but need not, make it possible for an application to
897 retrieve the text of comments.
898 <termref def="dt-compat">For compatibility</termref>, the string
899 "<code>--</code>" (double-hyphen) must not occur within
900 comments.
901 <scrap lang="ebnf">
902 <head>Comments</head>
903 <prod id='NT-Comment'><lhs>Comment</lhs>
904 <rhs>'&lt;!--'
905 ((<nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt> - '-')
906 | ('-' (<nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt> - '-')))*
907 '-->'</rhs>
908 </prod>
909 </scrap>
910 </termdef></p>
911 <p>An example of a comment:
912 <eg>&lt;!&como; declarations for &lt;head> &amp; &lt;body> &comc;&gt;</eg>
913 </p>
914 </div2>
915
916 <div2 id='sec-pi'>
917 <head>Processing Instructions</head>
918
919 <p><termdef id="dt-pi" term="Processing instruction"><term>Processing
920 instructions</term> (PIs) allow documents to contain instructions
921 for applications.
922
923 <scrap lang="ebnf">
924 <head>Processing Instructions</head>
925 <prod id='NT-PI'><lhs>PI</lhs>
926 <rhs>'&lt;?' <nt def='NT-PITarget'>PITarget</nt>
927 (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
928 (<nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>* -
929 (<nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>* &pic; <nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>*)))?
930 &pic;</rhs></prod>
931 <prod id='NT-PITarget'><lhs>PITarget</lhs>
932 <rhs><nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> -
933 (('X' | 'x') ('M' | 'm') ('L' | 'l'))</rhs>
934 </prod>
935 </scrap></termdef>
936 PIs are not part of the document's <termref def="dt-chardata">character
937 data</termref>, but must be passed through to the application. The
938 PI begins with a target (<nt def='NT-PITarget'>PITarget</nt>) used
939 to identify the application to which the instruction is directed.
940 The target names "<code>XML</code>", "<code>xml</code>", and so on are
941 reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this
942 specification.
943 The
944 XML <termref def='dt-notation'>Notation</termref> mechanism
945 may be used for
946 formal declaration of PI targets.
947 </p>
948 </div2>
949
950 <div2 id='sec-cdata-sect'>
951 <head>CDATA Sections</head>
952
953 <p><termdef id="dt-cdsection" term="CDATA Section"><term>CDATA sections</term>
954 may occur
955 anywhere character data may occur; they are
956 used to escape blocks of text containing characters which would
957 otherwise be recognized as markup. CDATA sections begin with the
958 string "<code>&lt;![CDATA[</code>" and end with the string
959 "<code>]]&gt;</code>":
960 <scrap lang="ebnf">
961 <head>CDATA Sections</head>
962 <prod id='NT-CDSect'><lhs>CDSect</lhs>
963 <rhs><nt def='NT-CDStart'>CDStart</nt>
964 <nt def='NT-CData'>CData</nt>
965 <nt def='NT-CDEnd'>CDEnd</nt></rhs></prod>
966 <prod id='NT-CDStart'><lhs>CDStart</lhs>
967 <rhs>'&lt;![CDATA['</rhs>
968 </prod>
969 <prod id='NT-CData'><lhs>CData</lhs>
970 <rhs>(<nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>* -
971 (<nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>* ']]&gt;' <nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>*))
972 </rhs>
973 </prod>
974 <prod id='NT-CDEnd'><lhs>CDEnd</lhs>
975 <rhs>']]&gt;'</rhs>
976 </prod>
977 </scrap>
978
979 Within a CDATA section, only the <nt def='NT-CDEnd'>CDEnd</nt> string is
980 recognized as markup, so that left angle brackets and ampersands may occur in
981 their literal form; they need not (and cannot) be escaped using
982 "<code>&amp;lt;</code>" and "<code>&amp;amp;</code>". CDATA sections
983 cannot nest.</termdef>
984 </p>
985
986 <p>An example of a CDATA section, in which "<code>&lt;greeting></code>" and
987 "<code>&lt;/greeting></code>"
988 are recognized as <termref def='dt-chardata'>character data</termref>, not
989 <termref def='dt-markup'>markup</termref>:
990 <eg>&lt;![CDATA[&lt;greeting>Hello, world!&lt;/greeting>]]&gt;</eg>
991 </p>
992 </div2>
993
994 <div2 id='sec-prolog-dtd'>
995 <head>Prolog and Document Type Declaration</head>
996
997 <p><termdef id='dt-xmldecl' term='XML Declaration'>XML documents
998 may, and should,
999 begin with an <term>XML declaration</term> which specifies
1000 the version of
1001 XML being used.</termdef>
1002 For example, the following is a complete XML document, <termref
1003 def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> but not
1004 <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref>:
1005 <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
1006 <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
1007 ]]></eg>
1008 and so is this:
1009 <eg><![CDATA[<greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
1010 ]]></eg>
1011 </p>
1012
1013 <p>The version number "<code>1.0</code>" should be used to indicate
1014 conformance to this version of this specification; it is an error
1015 for a document to use the value "<code>1.0</code>"
1016 if it does not conform to this version of this specification.
1017 It is the intent
1018 of the XML working group to give later versions of this specification
1019 numbers other than "<code>1.0</code>", but this intent does not
1020 indicate a
1021 commitment to produce any future versions of XML, nor if any are produced, to
1022 use any particular numbering scheme.
1023 Since future versions are not ruled out, this construct is provided
1024 as a means to allow the possibility of automatic version recognition, should
1025 it become necessary.
1026 Processors may signal an error if they receive documents labeled with
1027 versions they do not support.
1028 </p>
1029 <p>The function of the markup in an XML document is to describe its
1030 storage and logical structure and to associate attribute-value pairs
1031 with its logical structures. XML provides a mechanism, the <termref
1032 def="dt-doctype">document type declaration</termref>, to define
1033 constraints on the logical structure and to support the use of
1034 predefined storage units.
1035
1036 <termdef id="dt-valid" term="Validity">An XML document is
1037 <term>valid</term> if it has an associated document type
1038 declaration and if the document
1039 complies with the constraints expressed in it.</termdef></p>
1040 <p>The document type declaration must appear before
1041 the first <termref def="dt-element">element</termref> in the document.
1042 <scrap lang="ebnf" id='xmldoc'>
1043 <head>Prolog</head>
1044 <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9">
1045 <prod id='NT-prolog'><lhs>prolog</lhs>
1046 <rhs><nt def='NT-XMLDecl'>XMLDecl</nt>?
1047 <nt def='NT-Misc'>Misc</nt>*
1048 (<nt def='NT-doctypedecl'>doctypedecl</nt>
1049 <nt def='NT-Misc'>Misc</nt>*)?</rhs></prod>
1050 <prod id='NT-XMLDecl'><lhs>XMLDecl</lhs>
1051 <rhs>&xmlpio;
1052 <nt def='NT-VersionInfo'>VersionInfo</nt>
1053 <nt def='NT-EncodingDecl'>EncodingDecl</nt>?
1054 <nt def='NT-SDDecl'>SDDecl</nt>?
1055 <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>?
1056 &pic;</rhs>
1057 </prod>
1058 <prod id='NT-VersionInfo'><lhs>VersionInfo</lhs>
1059 <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt> 'version' <nt def='NT-Eq'>Eq</nt>
1060 (' <nt def="NT-VersionNum">VersionNum</nt> '
1061 | " <nt def="NT-VersionNum">VersionNum</nt> ")</rhs>
1062 </prod>
1063 <prod id='NT-Eq'><lhs>Eq</lhs>
1064 <rhs><nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '=' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?</rhs></prod>
1065 <prod id="NT-VersionNum">
1066 <lhs>VersionNum</lhs>
1067 <rhs>([a-zA-Z0-9_.:] | '-')+</rhs>
1068 </prod>
1069 <prod id='NT-Misc'><lhs>Misc</lhs>
1070 <rhs><nt def='NT-Comment'>Comment</nt> | <nt def='NT-PI'>PI</nt> |
1071 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt></rhs></prod>
1072 </prodgroup>
1073 </scrap></p>
1074
1075 <p><termdef id="dt-doctype" term="Document Type Declaration">The XML
1076 <term>document type declaration</term>
1077 contains or points to
1078 <termref def='dt-markupdecl'>markup declarations</termref>
1079 that provide a grammar for a
1080 class of documents.
1081 This grammar is known as a document type definition,
1082 or <term>DTD</term>.
1083 The document type declaration can point to an external subset (a
1084 special kind of
1085 <termref def='dt-extent'>external entity</termref>) containing markup
1086 declarations, or can
1087 contain the markup declarations directly in an internal subset, or can do
1088 both.
1089 The DTD for a document consists of both subsets taken
1090 together.</termdef>
1091 </p>
1092 <p><termdef id="dt-markupdecl" term="markup declaration">
1093 A <term>markup declaration</term> is
1094 an <termref def="dt-eldecl">element type declaration</termref>,
1095 an <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute-list declaration</termref>,
1096 an <termref def="dt-entdecl">entity declaration</termref>, or
1097 a <termref def="dt-notdecl">notation declaration</termref>.
1098 </termdef>
1099 These declarations may be contained in whole or in part
1100 within <termref def='dt-PE'>parameter entities</termref>,
1101 as described in the well-formedness and validity constraints below.
1102 For fuller information, see
1103 <specref ref="sec-physical-struct"/>.</p>
1104 <scrap lang="ebnf" id='dtd'>
1105 <head>Document Type Definition</head>
1106 <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9">
1107 <prod id='NT-doctypedecl'><lhs>doctypedecl</lhs>
1108 <rhs>'&lt;!DOCTYPE' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
1109 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
1110 <nt def='NT-ExternalID'>ExternalID</nt>)?
1111 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? ('['
1112 (<nt def='NT-markupdecl'>markupdecl</nt>
1113 | <nt def='NT-PEReference'>PEReference</nt>
1114 | <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>)*
1115 ']'
1116 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?)? '>'</rhs>
1117 <vc def="vc-roottype"/>
1118 </prod>
1119 <prod id='NT-markupdecl'><lhs>markupdecl</lhs>
1120 <rhs><nt def='NT-elementdecl'>elementdecl</nt>
1121 | <nt def='NT-AttlistDecl'>AttlistDecl</nt>
1122 | <nt def='NT-EntityDecl'>EntityDecl</nt>
1123 | <nt def='NT-NotationDecl'>NotationDecl</nt>
1124 | <nt def='NT-PI'>PI</nt>
1125 | <nt def='NT-Comment'>Comment</nt>
1126 </rhs>
1127 <vc def='vc-PEinMarkupDecl'/>
1128 <wfc def="wfc-PEinInternalSubset"/>
1129 </prod>
1130
1131 </prodgroup>
1132 </scrap>
1133
1134 <p>The markup declarations may be made up in whole or in part of
1135 the <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement text</termref> of
1136 <termref def='dt-PE'>parameter entities</termref>.
1137 The productions later in this specification for
1138 individual nonterminals (<nt def='NT-elementdecl'>elementdecl</nt>,
1139 <nt def='NT-AttlistDecl'>AttlistDecl</nt>, and so on) describe
1140 the declarations <emph>after</emph> all the parameter entities have been
1141 <termref def='dt-include'>included</termref>.</p>
1142
1143 <vcnote id="vc-roottype">
1144 <head>Root Element Type</head>
1145 <p>
1146 The <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> in the document type declaration must
1147 match the element type of the <termref def='dt-root'>root element</termref>.
1148 </p>
1149 </vcnote>
1150
1151 <vcnote id='vc-PEinMarkupDecl'>
1152 <head>Proper Declaration/PE Nesting</head>
1153 <p>Parameter-entity
1154 <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement text</termref> must be properly nested
1155 with markup declarations.
1156 That is to say, if either the first character
1157 or the last character of a markup
1158 declaration (<nt def='NT-markupdecl'>markupdecl</nt> above)
1159 is contained in the replacement text for a
1160 <termref def='dt-PERef'>parameter-entity reference</termref>,
1161 both must be contained in the same replacement text.</p>
1162 </vcnote>
1163 <wfcnote id="wfc-PEinInternalSubset">
1164 <head>PEs in Internal Subset</head>
1165 <p>In the internal DTD subset,
1166 <termref def='dt-PERef'>parameter-entity references</termref>
1167 can occur only where markup declarations can occur, not
1168 within markup declarations. (This does not apply to
1169 references that occur in
1170 external parameter entities or to the external subset.)
1171 </p>
1172 </wfcnote>
1173 <p>
1174 Like the internal subset, the external subset and
1175 any external parameter entities referred to in the DTD
1176 must consist of a series of complete markup declarations of the types
1177 allowed by the non-terminal symbol
1178 <nt def="NT-markupdecl">markupdecl</nt>, interspersed with white space
1179 or <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity references</termref>.
1180 However, portions of the contents
1181 of the
1182 external subset or of external parameter entities may conditionally be ignored
1183 by using
1184 the <termref def="dt-cond-section">conditional section</termref>
1185 construct; this is not allowed in the internal subset.
1186
1187 <scrap id="ext-Subset">
1188 <head>External Subset</head>
1189 <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="17.5" pcw5="9">
1190 <prod id='NT-extSubset'><lhs>extSubset</lhs>
1191 <rhs><nt def='NT-TextDecl'>TextDecl</nt>?
1192 <nt def='NT-extSubsetDecl'>extSubsetDecl</nt></rhs></prod>
1193 <prod id='NT-extSubsetDecl'><lhs>extSubsetDecl</lhs>
1194 <rhs>(
1195 <nt def='NT-markupdecl'>markupdecl</nt>
1196 | <nt def='NT-conditionalSect'>conditionalSect</nt>
1197 | <nt def='NT-PEReference'>PEReference</nt>
1198 | <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
1199 )*</rhs>
1200 </prod>
1201 </prodgroup>
1202 </scrap></p>
1203 <p>The external subset and external parameter entities also differ
1204 from the internal subset in that in them,
1205 <termref def="dt-PERef">parameter-entity references</termref>
1206 are permitted <emph>within</emph> markup declarations,
1207 not only <emph>between</emph> markup declarations.</p>
1208 <p>An example of an XML document with a document type declaration:
1209 <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0"?>
1210 <!DOCTYPE greeting SYSTEM "hello.dtd">
1211 <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
1212 ]]></eg>
1213 The <termref def="dt-sysid">system identifier</termref>
1214 "<code>hello.dtd</code>" gives the URI of a DTD for the document.</p>
1215 <p>The declarations can also be given locally, as in this
1216 example:
1217 <eg><![CDATA[<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
1218 <!DOCTYPE greeting [
1219 <!ELEMENT greeting (#PCDATA)>
1220 ]>
1221 <greeting>Hello, world!</greeting>
1222 ]]></eg>
1223 If both the external and internal subsets are used, the
1224 internal subset is considered to occur before the external subset.
1225 <!-- 'is considered to'? boo. whazzat mean? -->
1226 This has the effect that entity and attribute-list declarations in the
1227 internal subset take precedence over those in the external subset.
1228 </p>
1229 </div2>
1230
1231 <div2 id='sec-rmd'>
1232 <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head>
1233 <p>Markup declarations can affect the content of the document,
1234 as passed from an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processor</termref>
1235 to an application; examples are attribute defaults and entity
1236 declarations.
1237 The standalone document declaration,
1238 which may appear as a component of the XML declaration, signals
1239 whether or not there are such declarations which appear external to
1240 the <termref def='dt-docent'>document entity</termref>.
1241 <scrap lang="ebnf" id='fulldtd'>
1242 <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head>
1243 <prodgroup pcw2="4" pcw4="19.5" pcw5="9">
1244 <prod id='NT-SDDecl'><lhs>SDDecl</lhs>
1245 <rhs>
1246 <nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
1247 'standalone' <nt def='NT-Eq'>Eq</nt>
1248 (("'" ('yes' | 'no') "'") | ('"' ('yes' | 'no') '"'))
1249 </rhs>
1250 <vc def='vc-check-rmd'/></prod>
1251 </prodgroup>
1252 </scrap></p>
1253 <p>
1254 In a standalone document declaration, the value "<code>yes</code>" indicates
1255 that there
1256 are no markup declarations external to the <termref def='dt-docent'>document
1257 entity</termref> (either in the DTD external subset, or in an
1258 external parameter entity referenced from the internal subset)
1259 which affect the information passed from the XML processor to
1260 the application.
1261 The value "<code>no</code>" indicates that there are or may be such
1262 external markup declarations.
1263 Note that the standalone document declaration only
1264 denotes the presence of external <emph>declarations</emph>; the presence, in a
1265 document, of
1266 references to external <emph>entities</emph>, when those entities are
1267 internally declared,
1268 does not change its standalone status.</p>
1269 <p>If there are no external markup declarations, the standalone document
1270 declaration has no meaning.
1271 If there are external markup declarations but there is no standalone
1272 document declaration, the value "<code>no</code>" is assumed.</p>
1273 <p>Any XML document for which <code>standalone="no"</code> holds can
1274 be converted algorithmically to a standalone document,
1275 which may be desirable for some network delivery applications.</p>
1276 <vcnote id='vc-check-rmd'>
1277 <head>Standalone Document Declaration</head>
1278 <p>The standalone document declaration must have
1279 the value "<code>no</code>" if any external markup declarations
1280 contain declarations of:</p><ulist>
1281 <item><p>attributes with <termref def="dt-default">default</termref> values, if
1282 elements to which
1283 these attributes apply appear in the document without
1284 specifications of values for these attributes, or</p></item>
1285 <item><p>entities (other than &magicents;),
1286 if <termref def="dt-entref">references</termref> to those
1287 entities appear in the document, or</p>
1288 </item>
1289 <item><p>attributes with values subject to
1290 <titleref href='AVNormalize'>normalization</titleref>, where the
1291 attribute appears in the document with a value which will
1292 change as a result of normalization, or</p>
1293 </item>
1294 <item>
1295 <p>element types with <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref>,
1296 if white space occurs
1297 directly within any instance of those types.
1298 </p></item>
1299 </ulist>
1300
1301 </vcnote>
1302 <p>An example XML declaration with a standalone document declaration:<eg
1303 >&lt;?xml version="&XML.version;" standalone='yes'?></eg></p>
1304 </div2>
1305 <div2 id='sec-white-space'>
1306 <head>White Space Handling</head>
1307
1308 <p>In editing XML documents, it is often convenient to use "white space"
1309 (spaces, tabs, and blank lines, denoted by the nonterminal
1310 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> in this specification) to
1311 set apart the markup for greater readability. Such white space is typically
1312 not intended for inclusion in the delivered version of the document.
1313 On the other hand, "significant" white space that should be preserved in the
1314 delivered version is common, for example in poetry and
1315 source code.</p>
1316 <p>An <termref def='dt-xml-proc'>XML processor</termref>
1317 must always pass all characters in a document that are not
1318 markup through to the application. A <termref def='dt-validating'>
1319 validating XML processor</termref> must also inform the application
1320 which of these characters constitute white space appearing
1321 in <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref>.
1322 </p>
1323 <p>A special <termref def='dt-attr'>attribute</termref>
1324 named <kw>xml:space</kw> may be attached to an element
1325 to signal an intention that in that element,
1326 white space should be preserved by applications.
1327 In valid documents, this attribute, like any other, must be
1328 <termref def="dt-attdecl">declared</termref> if it is used.
1329 When declared, it must be given as an
1330 <termref def='dt-enumerated'>enumerated type</termref> whose only
1331 possible values are "<code>default</code>" and "<code>preserve</code>".
1332 For example:<eg><![CDATA[ <!ATTLIST poem xml:space (default|preserve) 'preserve'>]]></eg></p>
1333 <p>The value "<code>default</code>" signals that applications'
1334 default white-space processing modes are acceptable for this element; the
1335 value "<code>preserve</code>" indicates the intent that applications preserve
1336 all the white space.
1337 This declared intent is considered to apply to all elements within the content
1338 of the element where it is specified, unless overriden with another instance
1339 of the <kw>xml:space</kw> attribute.
1340 </p>
1341 <p>The <termref def='dt-root'>root element</termref> of any document
1342 is considered to have signaled no intentions as regards application space
1343 handling, unless it provides a value for
1344 this attribute or the attribute is declared with a default value.
1345 </p>
1346
1347 </div2>
1348 <div2 id='sec-line-ends'>
1349 <head>End-of-Line Handling</head>
1350 <p>XML <termref def='dt-parsedent'>parsed entities</termref> are often stored in
1351 computer files which, for editing convenience, are organized into lines.
1352 These lines are typically separated by some combination of the characters
1353 carriage-return (#xD) and line-feed (#xA).</p>
1354 <p>To simplify the tasks of <termref def='dt-app'>applications</termref>,
1355 wherever an external parsed entity or the literal entity value
1356 of an internal parsed entity contains either the literal
1357 two-character sequence "#xD#xA" or a standalone literal
1358 #xD, an <termref def='dt-xml-proc'>XML processor</termref> must
1359 pass to the application the single character #xA.
1360 (This behavior can
1361 conveniently be produced by normalizing all
1362 line breaks to #xA on input, before parsing.)
1363 </p>
1364 </div2>
1365 <div2 id='sec-lang-tag'>
1366 <head>Language Identification</head>
1367 <p>In document processing, it is often useful to
1368 identify the natural or formal language
1369 in which the content is
1370 written.
1371 A special <termref def="dt-attr">attribute</termref> named
1372 <kw>xml:lang</kw> may be inserted in
1373 documents to specify the
1374 language used in the contents and attribute values
1375 of any element in an XML document.
1376 In valid documents, this attribute, like any other, must be
1377 <termref def="dt-attdecl">declared</termref> if it is used.
1378 The values of the attribute are language identifiers as defined
1379 by <bibref ref="RFC1766"/>, "Tags for the Identification of Languages":
1380 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1381 <head>Language Identification</head>
1382 <prod id='NT-LanguageID'><lhs>LanguageID</lhs>
1383 <rhs><nt def='NT-Langcode'>Langcode</nt>
1384 ('-' <nt def='NT-Subcode'>Subcode</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
1385 <prod id='NT-Langcode'><lhs>Langcode</lhs>
1386 <rhs><nt def='NT-ISO639Code'>ISO639Code</nt> |
1387 <nt def='NT-IanaCode'>IanaCode</nt> |
1388 <nt def='NT-UserCode'>UserCode</nt></rhs>
1389 </prod>
1390 <prod id='NT-ISO639Code'><lhs>ISO639Code</lhs>
1391 <rhs>([a-z] | [A-Z]) ([a-z] | [A-Z])</rhs></prod>
1392 <prod id='NT-IanaCode'><lhs>IanaCode</lhs>
1393 <rhs>('i' | 'I') '-' ([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod>
1394 <prod id='NT-UserCode'><lhs>UserCode</lhs>
1395 <rhs>('x' | 'X') '-' ([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod>
1396 <prod id='NT-Subcode'><lhs>Subcode</lhs>
1397 <rhs>([a-z] | [A-Z])+</rhs></prod>
1398 </scrap>
1399 The <nt def='NT-Langcode'>Langcode</nt> may be any of the following:
1400 <ulist>
1401 <item><p>a two-letter language code as defined by
1402 <bibref ref="ISO639"/>, "Codes
1403 for the representation of names of languages"</p></item>
1404 <item><p>a language identifier registered with the Internet
1405 Assigned Numbers Authority <bibref ref='IANA'/>; these begin with the
1406 prefix "<code>i-</code>" (or "<code>I-</code>")</p></item>
1407 <item><p>a language identifier assigned by the user, or agreed on
1408 between parties in private use; these must begin with the
1409 prefix "<code>x-</code>" or "<code>X-</code>" in order to ensure that they do not conflict
1410 with names later standardized or registered with IANA</p></item>
1411 </ulist></p>
1412 <p>There may be any number of <nt def='NT-Subcode'>Subcode</nt> segments; if
1413 the first
1414 subcode segment exists and the Subcode consists of two
1415 letters, then it must be a country code from
1416 <bibref ref="ISO3166"/>, "Codes
1417 for the representation of names of countries."
1418 If the first
1419 subcode consists of more than two letters, it must be
1420 a subcode for the language in question registered with IANA,
1421 unless the <nt def='NT-Langcode'>Langcode</nt> begins with the prefix
1422 "<code>x-</code>" or
1423 "<code>X-</code>". </p>
1424 <p>It is customary to give the language code in lower case, and
1425 the country code (if any) in upper case.
1426 Note that these values, unlike other names in XML documents,
1427 are case insensitive.</p>
1428 <p>For example:
1429 <eg><![CDATA[<p xml:lang="en">The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.</p>
1430 <p xml:lang="en-GB">What colour is it?</p>
1431 <p xml:lang="en-US">What color is it?</p>
1432 <sp who="Faust" desc='leise' xml:lang="de">
1433 <l>Habe nun, ach! Philosophie,</l>
1434 <l>Juristerei, und Medizin</l>
1435 <l>und leider auch Theologie</l>
1436 <l>durchaus studiert mit heißem Bemüh'n.</l>
1437 </sp>]]></eg></p>
1438 <!--<p>The xml:lang value is considered to apply both to the contents of an
1439 element and
1440 (unless otherwise via attribute default values) to the
1441 values of all of its attributes with free-text (CDATA) values. -->
1442 <p>The intent declared with <kw>xml:lang</kw> is considered to apply to
1443 all attributes and content of the element where it is specified,
1444 unless overridden with an instance of <kw>xml:lang</kw>
1445 on another element within that content.</p>
1446 <!--
1447 If no
1448 value is specified for xml:lang on an element, and no default value is
1449 defined for it in the DTD, then the xml:lang attribute of any element
1450 takes the same value it has in the parent element, if any. The two
1451 technical terms in the following example both have the same effective
1452 value for xml:lang:
1453
1454 <p xml:lang="en">Here the keywords are
1455 <term xml:lang="en">shift</term> and
1456 <term>reduce</term>. ...</p>
1457
1458 The application, not the XML processor, is responsible for this '
1459 inheritance' of attribute values.
1460 -->
1461 <p>A simple declaration for <kw>xml:lang</kw> might take
1462 the form
1463 <eg>xml:lang NMTOKEN #IMPLIED</eg>
1464 but specific default values may also be given, if appropriate. In a
1465 collection of French poems for English students, with glosses and
1466 notes in English, the xml:lang attribute might be declared this way:
1467 <eg><![CDATA[ <!ATTLIST poem xml:lang NMTOKEN 'fr'>
1468 <!ATTLIST gloss xml:lang NMTOKEN 'en'>
1469 <!ATTLIST note xml:lang NMTOKEN 'en'>]]></eg>
1470 </p>
1471
1472 </div2>
1473 </div1>
1474 <!-- &Elements; -->
1475
1476 <div1 id='sec-logical-struct'>
1477 <head>Logical Structures</head>
1478
1479 <p><termdef id="dt-element" term="Element">Each <termref
1480 def="dt-xml-doc">XML document</termref> contains one or more
1481 <term>elements</term>, the boundaries of which are
1482 either delimited by <termref def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref>
1483 and <termref def="dt-etag">end-tags</termref>, or, for <termref
1484 def="dt-empty">empty</termref> elements, by an <termref
1485 def="dt-eetag">empty-element tag</termref>. Each element has a type,
1486 identified by name, sometimes called its "generic
1487 identifier" (GI), and may have a set of
1488 attribute specifications.</termdef> Each attribute specification
1489 has a <termref
1490 def="dt-attrname">name</termref> and a <termref
1491 def="dt-attrval">value</termref>.
1492 </p>
1493 <scrap lang='ebnf'><head>Element</head>
1494 <prod id='NT-element'><lhs>element</lhs>
1495 <rhs><nt def='NT-EmptyElemTag'>EmptyElemTag</nt></rhs>
1496 <rhs>| <nt def='NT-STag'>STag</nt> <nt def='NT-content'>content</nt>
1497 <nt def='NT-ETag'>ETag</nt></rhs>
1498 <wfc def='GIMatch'/>
1499 <vc def='elementvalid'/>
1500 </prod>
1501 </scrap>
1502 <p>This specification does not constrain the semantics, use, or (beyond
1503 syntax) names of the element types and attributes, except that names
1504 beginning with a match to <code>(('X'|'x')('M'|'m')('L'|'l'))</code>
1505 are reserved for standardization in this or future versions of this
1506 specification.
1507 </p>
1508 <wfcnote id='GIMatch'>
1509 <head>Element Type Match</head>
1510 <p>
1511 The <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> in an element's end-tag must match
1512 the element type in
1513 the start-tag.
1514 </p>
1515 </wfcnote>
1516 <vcnote id='elementvalid'>
1517 <head>Element Valid</head>
1518 <p>An element is
1519 valid if
1520 there is a declaration matching
1521 <nt def='NT-elementdecl'>elementdecl</nt> where the
1522 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> matches the element type, and
1523 one of the following holds:</p>
1524 <olist>
1525 <item><p>The declaration matches <kw>EMPTY</kw> and the element has no
1526 <termref def='dt-content'>content</termref>.</p></item>
1527 <item><p>The declaration matches <nt def='NT-children'>children</nt> and
1528 the sequence of
1529 <termref def="dt-parentchild">child elements</termref>
1530 belongs to the language generated by the regular expression in
1531 the content model, with optional white space (characters
1532 matching the nonterminal <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>) between each pair
1533 of child elements.</p></item>
1534 <item><p>The declaration matches <nt def='NT-Mixed'>Mixed</nt> and
1535 the content consists of <termref def='dt-chardata'>character
1536 data</termref> and <termref def='dt-parentchild'>child elements</termref>
1537 whose types match names in the content model.</p></item>
1538 <item><p>The declaration matches <kw>ANY</kw>, and the types
1539 of any <termref def='dt-parentchild'>child elements</termref> have
1540 been declared.</p></item>
1541 </olist>
1542 </vcnote>
1543
1544 <div2 id='sec-starttags'>
1545 <head>Start-Tags, End-Tags, and Empty-Element Tags</head>
1546
1547 <p><termdef id="dt-stag" term="Start-Tag">The beginning of every
1548 non-empty XML element is marked by a <term>start-tag</term>.
1549 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1550 <head>Start-tag</head>
1551 <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5">
1552 <prod id='NT-STag'><lhs>STag</lhs>
1553 <rhs>'&lt;' <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
1554 (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-Attribute'>Attribute</nt>)*
1555 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '>'</rhs>
1556 <wfc def="uniqattspec"/>
1557 </prod>
1558 <prod id='NT-Attribute'><lhs>Attribute</lhs>
1559 <rhs><nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> <nt def='NT-Eq'>Eq</nt>
1560 <nt def='NT-AttValue'>AttValue</nt></rhs>
1561 <vc def='ValueType'/>
1562 <wfc def='NoExternalRefs'/>
1563 <wfc def='CleanAttrVals'/></prod>
1564 </prodgroup>
1565 </scrap>
1566 The <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> in
1567 the start- and end-tags gives the
1568 element's <term>type</term>.</termdef>
1569 <termdef id="dt-attr" term="Attribute">
1570 The <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>-<nt def='NT-AttValue'>AttValue</nt> pairs are
1571 referred to as
1572 the <term>attribute specifications</term> of the element</termdef>,
1573 <termdef id="dt-attrname" term="Attribute Name">with the
1574 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> in each pair
1575 referred to as the <term>attribute name</term></termdef> and
1576 <termdef id="dt-attrval" term="Attribute Value">the content of the
1577 <nt def='NT-AttValue'>AttValue</nt> (the text between the
1578 <code>'</code> or <code>"</code> delimiters)
1579 as the <term>attribute value</term>.</termdef>
1580 </p>
1581 <wfcnote id='uniqattspec'>
1582 <head>Unique Att Spec</head>
1583 <p>
1584 No attribute name may appear more than once in the same start-tag
1585 or empty-element tag.
1586 </p>
1587 </wfcnote>
1588 <vcnote id='ValueType'>
1589 <head>Attribute Value Type</head>
1590 <p>
1591 The attribute must have been declared; the value must be of the type
1592 declared for it.
1593 (For attribute types, see <specref ref='attdecls'/>.)
1594 </p>
1595 </vcnote>
1596 <wfcnote id='NoExternalRefs'>
1597 <head>No External Entity References</head>
1598 <p>
1599 Attribute values cannot contain direct or indirect entity references
1600 to external entities.
1601 </p>
1602 </wfcnote>
1603 <wfcnote id='CleanAttrVals'>
1604 <head>No <code>&lt;</code> in Attribute Values</head>
1605 <p>The <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement text</termref> of any entity
1606 referred to directly or indirectly in an attribute
1607 value (other than "<code>&amp;lt;</code>") must not contain
1608 a <code>&lt;</code>.
1609 </p></wfcnote>
1610 <p>An example of a start-tag:
1611 <eg>&lt;termdef id="dt-dog" term="dog"></eg></p>
1612 <p><termdef id="dt-etag" term="End Tag">The end of every element
1613 that begins with a start-tag must
1614 be marked by an <term>end-tag</term>
1615 containing a name that echoes the element's type as given in the
1616 start-tag:
1617 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1618 <head>End-tag</head>
1619 <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5">
1620 <prod id='NT-ETag'><lhs>ETag</lhs>
1621 <rhs>'&lt;/' <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
1622 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '>'</rhs></prod>
1623 </prodgroup>
1624 </scrap>
1625 </termdef></p>
1626 <p>An example of an end-tag:<eg>&lt;/termdef></eg></p>
1627 <p><termdef id="dt-content" term="Content">The
1628 <termref def='dt-text'>text</termref> between the start-tag and
1629 end-tag is called the element's
1630 <term>content</term>:
1631 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1632 <head>Content of Elements</head>
1633 <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5">
1634 <prod id='NT-content'><lhs>content</lhs>
1635 <rhs>(<nt def='NT-element'>element</nt> | <nt def='NT-CharData'>CharData</nt>
1636 | <nt def='NT-Reference'>Reference</nt> | <nt def='NT-CDSect'>CDSect</nt>
1637 | <nt def='NT-PI'>PI</nt> | <nt def='NT-Comment'>Comment</nt>)*</rhs>
1638 </prod>
1639 </prodgroup>
1640 </scrap>
1641 </termdef></p>
1642 <p><termdef id="dt-empty" term="Empty">If an element is <term>empty</term>,
1643 it must be represented either by a start-tag immediately followed
1644 by an end-tag or by an empty-element tag.</termdef>
1645 <termdef id="dt-eetag" term="empty-element tag">An
1646 <term>empty-element tag</term> takes a special form:
1647 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1648 <head>Tags for Empty Elements</head>
1649 <prodgroup pcw2="6" pcw4="15" pcw5="11.5">
1650 <prod id='NT-EmptyElemTag'><lhs>EmptyElemTag</lhs>
1651 <rhs>'&lt;' <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
1652 <nt def='NT-Attribute'>Attribute</nt>)* <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
1653 '/&gt;'</rhs>
1654 <wfc def="uniqattspec"/>
1655 </prod>
1656 </prodgroup>
1657 </scrap>
1658 </termdef></p>
1659 <p>Empty-element tags may be used for any element which has no
1660 content, whether or not it is declared using the keyword
1661 <kw>EMPTY</kw>.
1662 <termref def='dt-interop'>For interoperability</termref>, the empty-element
1663 tag must be used, and can only be used, for elements which are
1664 <termref def='dt-eldecl'>declared</termref> <kw>EMPTY</kw>.</p>
1665 <p>Examples of empty elements:
1666 <eg>&lt;IMG align="left"
1667 src="http://www.w3.org/Icons/WWW/w3c_home" />
1668 &lt;br>&lt;/br>
1669 &lt;br/></eg></p>
1670 </div2>
1671
1672 <div2 id='elemdecls'>
1673 <head>Element Type Declarations</head>
1674
1675 <p>The <termref def="dt-element">element</termref> structure of an
1676 <termref def="dt-xml-doc">XML document</termref> may, for
1677 <termref def="dt-valid">validation</termref> purposes,
1678 be constrained
1679 using element type and attribute-list declarations.
1680 An element type declaration constrains the element's
1681 <termref def="dt-content">content</termref>.
1682 </p>
1683
1684 <p>Element type declarations often constrain which element types can
1685 appear as <termref def="dt-parentchild">children</termref> of the element.
1686 At user option, an XML processor may issue a warning
1687 when a declaration mentions an element type for which no declaration
1688 is provided, but this is not an error.</p>
1689 <p><termdef id="dt-eldecl" term="Element Type declaration">An <term>element
1690 type declaration</term> takes the form:
1691 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1692 <head>Element Type Declaration</head>
1693 <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="18" pcw5="9">
1694 <prod id='NT-elementdecl'><lhs>elementdecl</lhs>
1695 <rhs>'&lt;!ELEMENT' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
1696 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
1697 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
1698 <nt def='NT-contentspec'>contentspec</nt>
1699 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '>'</rhs>
1700 <vc def='EDUnique'/></prod>
1701 <prod id='NT-contentspec'><lhs>contentspec</lhs>
1702 <rhs>'EMPTY'
1703 | 'ANY'
1704 | <nt def='NT-Mixed'>Mixed</nt>
1705 | <nt def='NT-children'>children</nt>
1706 </rhs>
1707 </prod>
1708 </prodgroup>
1709 </scrap>
1710 where the <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> gives the element type
1711 being declared.</termdef>
1712 </p>
1713
1714 <vcnote id='EDUnique'>
1715 <head>Unique Element Type Declaration</head>
1716 <p>
1717 No element type may be declared more than once.
1718 </p>
1719 </vcnote>
1720
1721 <p>Examples of element type declarations:
1722 <eg>&lt;!ELEMENT br EMPTY>
1723 &lt;!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA|emph)* >
1724 &lt;!ELEMENT %name.para; %content.para; >
1725 &lt;!ELEMENT container ANY></eg></p>
1726
1727 <div3 id='sec-element-content'>
1728 <head>Element Content</head>
1729
1730 <p><termdef id='dt-elemcontent' term='Element content'>An element <termref
1731 def="dt-stag">type</termref> has
1732 <term>element content</term> when elements of that
1733 type must contain only <termref def='dt-parentchild'>child</termref>
1734 elements (no character data), optionally separated by
1735 white space (characters matching the nonterminal
1736 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>).
1737 </termdef>
1738 In this case, the
1739 constraint includes a content model, a simple grammar governing
1740 the allowed types of the child
1741 elements and the order in which they are allowed to appear.
1742 The grammar is built on
1743 content particles (<nt def='NT-cp'>cp</nt>s), which consist of names,
1744 choice lists of content particles, or
1745 sequence lists of content particles:
1746 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1747 <head>Element-content Models</head>
1748 <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="16" pcw5="11">
1749 <prod id='NT-children'><lhs>children</lhs>
1750 <rhs>(<nt def='NT-choice'>choice</nt>
1751 | <nt def='NT-seq'>seq</nt>)
1752 ('?' | '*' | '+')?</rhs></prod>
1753 <prod id='NT-cp'><lhs>cp</lhs>
1754 <rhs>(<nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
1755 | <nt def='NT-choice'>choice</nt>
1756 | <nt def='NT-seq'>seq</nt>)
1757 ('?' | '*' | '+')?</rhs></prod>
1758 <prod id='NT-choice'><lhs>choice</lhs>
1759 <rhs>'(' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? cp
1760 ( <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '|' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? <nt def='NT-cp'>cp</nt> )*
1761 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? ')'</rhs>
1762 <vc def='vc-PEinGroup'/></prod>
1763 <prod id='NT-seq'><lhs>seq</lhs>
1764 <rhs>'(' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? cp
1765 ( <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? ',' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? <nt def='NT-cp'>cp</nt> )*
1766 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? ')'</rhs>
1767 <vc def='vc-PEinGroup'/></prod>
1768
1769 </prodgroup>
1770 </scrap>
1771 where each <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> is the type of an element which may
1772 appear as a <termref def="dt-parentchild">child</termref>.
1773 Any content
1774 particle in a choice list may appear in the <termref
1775 def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref> at the location where
1776 the choice list appears in the grammar;
1777 content particles occurring in a sequence list must each
1778 appear in the <termref def="dt-elemcontent">element content</termref> in the
1779 order given in the list.
1780 The optional character following a name or list governs
1781 whether the element or the content particles in the list may occur one
1782 or more (<code>+</code>), zero or more (<code>*</code>), or zero or
1783 one times (<code>?</code>).
1784 The absence of such an operator means that the element or content particle
1785 must appear exactly once.
1786 This syntax
1787 and meaning are identical to those used in the productions in this
1788 specification.</p>
1789 <p>
1790 The content of an element matches a content model if and only if it is
1791 possible to trace out a path through the content model, obeying the
1792 sequence, choice, and repetition operators and matching each element in
1793 the content against an element type in the content model. <termref
1794 def='dt-compat'>For compatibility</termref>, it is an error
1795 if an element in the document can
1796 match more than one occurrence of an element type in the content model.
1797 For more information, see <specref ref="determinism"/>.
1798 <!-- appendix <specref ref="determinism"/>. -->
1799 <!-- appendix on deterministic content models. -->
1800 </p>
1801 <vcnote id='vc-PEinGroup'>
1802 <head>Proper Group/PE Nesting</head>
1803 <p>Parameter-entity
1804 <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement text</termref> must be properly nested
1805 with parenthetized groups.
1806 That is to say, if either of the opening or closing parentheses
1807 in a <nt def='NT-choice'>choice</nt>, <nt def='NT-seq'>seq</nt>, or
1808 <nt def='NT-Mixed'>Mixed</nt> construct
1809 is contained in the replacement text for a
1810 <termref def='dt-PERef'>parameter entity</termref>,
1811 both must be contained in the same replacement text.</p>
1812 <p><termref def='dt-interop'>For interoperability</termref>,
1813 if a parameter-entity reference appears in a
1814 <nt def='NT-choice'>choice</nt>, <nt def='NT-seq'>seq</nt>, or
1815 <nt def='NT-Mixed'>Mixed</nt> construct, its replacement text
1816 should not be empty, and
1817 neither the first nor last non-blank
1818 character of the replacement text should be a connector
1819 (<code>|</code> or <code>,</code>).
1820 </p>
1821 </vcnote>
1822 <p>Examples of element-content models:
1823 <eg>&lt;!ELEMENT spec (front, body, back?)>
1824 &lt;!ELEMENT div1 (head, (p | list | note)*, div2*)>
1825 &lt;!ELEMENT dictionary-body (%div.mix; | %dict.mix;)*></eg></p>
1826 </div3>
1827
1828 <div3 id='sec-mixed-content'>
1829 <head>Mixed Content</head>
1830
1831 <p><termdef id='dt-mixed' term='Mixed Content'>An element
1832 <termref def='dt-stag'>type</termref> has
1833 <term>mixed content</term> when elements of that type may contain
1834 character data, optionally interspersed with
1835 <termref def="dt-parentchild">child</termref> elements.</termdef>
1836 In this case, the types of the child elements
1837 may be constrained, but not their order or their number of occurrences:
1838 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1839 <head>Mixed-content Declaration</head>
1840 <prodgroup pcw2="5.5" pcw4="16" pcw5="11">
1841 <prod id='NT-Mixed'><lhs>Mixed</lhs>
1842 <rhs>'(' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
1843 '#PCDATA'
1844 (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
1845 '|'
1846 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
1847 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>)*
1848 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
1849 ')*' </rhs>
1850 <rhs>| '(' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '#PCDATA' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? ')'
1851 </rhs><vc def='vc-PEinGroup'/>
1852 <vc def='vc-MixedChildrenUnique'/>
1853 </prod>
1854
1855 </prodgroup>
1856 </scrap>
1857 where the <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>s give the types of elements
1858 that may appear as children.
1859 </p>
1860 <vcnote id='vc-MixedChildrenUnique'>
1861 <head>No Duplicate Types</head>
1862 <p>The same name must not appear more than once in a single mixed-content
1863 declaration.
1864 </p></vcnote>
1865 <p>Examples of mixed content declarations:
1866 <eg>&lt;!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA|a|ul|b|i|em)*>
1867 &lt;!ELEMENT p (#PCDATA | %font; | %phrase; | %special; | %form;)* >
1868 &lt;!ELEMENT b (#PCDATA)></eg></p>
1869 </div3>
1870 </div2>
1871
1872 <div2 id='attdecls'>
1873 <head>Attribute-List Declarations</head>
1874
1875 <p><termref def="dt-attr">Attributes</termref> are used to associate
1876 name-value pairs with <termref def="dt-element">elements</termref>.
1877 Attribute specifications may appear only within <termref
1878 def="dt-stag">start-tags</termref>
1879 and <termref def="dt-eetag">empty-element tags</termref>;
1880 thus, the productions used to
1881 recognize them appear in <specref ref='sec-starttags'/>.
1882 Attribute-list
1883 declarations may be used:
1884 <ulist>
1885 <item><p>To define the set of attributes pertaining to a given
1886 element type.</p></item>
1887 <item><p>To establish type constraints for these
1888 attributes.</p></item>
1889 <item><p>To provide <termref def="dt-default">default values</termref>
1890 for attributes.</p></item>
1891 </ulist>
1892 </p>
1893 <p><termdef id="dt-attdecl" term="Attribute-List Declaration">
1894 <term>Attribute-list declarations</term> specify the name, data type, and default
1895 value (if any) of each attribute associated with a given element type:
1896 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1897 <head>Attribute-list Declaration</head>
1898 <prod id='NT-AttlistDecl'><lhs>AttlistDecl</lhs>
1899 <rhs>'&lt;!ATTLIST' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
1900 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
1901 <nt def='NT-AttDef'>AttDef</nt>*
1902 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '&gt;'</rhs>
1903 </prod>
1904 <prod id='NT-AttDef'><lhs>AttDef</lhs>
1905 <rhs><nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
1906 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-AttType'>AttType</nt>
1907 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-DefaultDecl'>DefaultDecl</nt></rhs>
1908 </prod>
1909 </scrap>
1910 The <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> in the
1911 <nt def='NT-AttlistDecl'>AttlistDecl</nt> rule is the type of an element. At
1912 user option, an XML processor may issue a warning if attributes are
1913 declared for an element type not itself declared, but this is not an
1914 error. The <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> in the
1915 <nt def='NT-AttDef'>AttDef</nt> rule is
1916 the name of the attribute.</termdef></p>
1917 <p>
1918 When more than one <nt def='NT-AttlistDecl'>AttlistDecl</nt> is provided for a
1919 given element type, the contents of all those provided are merged. When
1920 more than one definition is provided for the same attribute of a
1921 given element type, the first declaration is binding and later
1922 declarations are ignored.
1923 <termref def='dt-interop'>For interoperability,</termref> writers of DTDs
1924 may choose to provide at most one attribute-list declaration
1925 for a given element type, at most one attribute definition
1926 for a given attribute name, and at least one attribute definition
1927 in each attribute-list declaration.
1928 For interoperability, an XML processor may at user option
1929 issue a warning when more than one attribute-list declaration is
1930 provided for a given element type, or more than one attribute definition
1931 is provided
1932 for a given attribute, but this is not an error.
1933 </p>
1934
1935 <div3 id='sec-attribute-types'>
1936 <head>Attribute Types</head>
1937
1938 <p>XML attribute types are of three kinds: a string type, a
1939 set of tokenized types, and enumerated types. The string type may take
1940 any literal string as a value; the tokenized types have varying lexical
1941 and semantic constraints, as noted:
1942 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
1943 <head>Attribute Types</head>
1944 <prodgroup pcw4="14" pcw5="11.5">
1945 <prod id='NT-AttType'><lhs>AttType</lhs>
1946 <rhs><nt def='NT-StringType'>StringType</nt>
1947 | <nt def='NT-TokenizedType'>TokenizedType</nt>
1948 | <nt def='NT-EnumeratedType'>EnumeratedType</nt>
1949 </rhs>
1950 </prod>
1951 <prod id='NT-StringType'><lhs>StringType</lhs>
1952 <rhs>'CDATA'</rhs>
1953 </prod>
1954 <prod id='NT-TokenizedType'><lhs>TokenizedType</lhs>
1955 <rhs>'ID'</rhs>
1956 <vc def='id'/>
1957 <vc def='one-id-per-el'/>
1958 <vc def='id-default'/>
1959 <rhs>| 'IDREF'</rhs>
1960 <vc def='idref'/>
1961 <rhs>| 'IDREFS'</rhs>
1962 <vc def='idref'/>
1963 <rhs>| 'ENTITY'</rhs>
1964 <vc def='entname'/>
1965 <rhs>| 'ENTITIES'</rhs>
1966 <vc def='entname'/>
1967 <rhs>| 'NMTOKEN'</rhs>
1968 <vc def='nmtok'/>
1969 <rhs>| 'NMTOKENS'</rhs>
1970 <vc def='nmtok'/></prod>
1971 </prodgroup>
1972 </scrap>
1973 </p>
1974 <vcnote id='id' >
1975 <head>ID</head>
1976 <p>
1977 Values of type <kw>ID</kw> must match the
1978 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> production.
1979 A name must not appear more than once in
1980 an XML document as a value of this type; i.e., ID values must uniquely
1981 identify the elements which bear them.
1982 </p>
1983 </vcnote>
1984 <vcnote id='one-id-per-el'>
1985 <head>One ID per Element Type</head>
1986 <p>No element type may have more than one ID attribute specified.</p>
1987 </vcnote>
1988 <vcnote id='id-default'>
1989 <head>ID Attribute Default</head>
1990 <p>An ID attribute must have a declared default of <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> or
1991 <kw>#REQUIRED</kw>.</p>
1992 </vcnote>
1993 <vcnote id='idref'>
1994 <head>IDREF</head>
1995 <p>
1996 Values of type <kw>IDREF</kw> must match
1997 the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> production, and
1998 values of type <kw>IDREFS</kw> must match
1999 <nt def="NT-Names">Names</nt>;
2000 each <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> must match the value of an ID attribute on
2001 some element in the XML document; i.e. <kw>IDREF</kw> values must
2002 match the value of some ID attribute.
2003 </p>
2004 </vcnote>
2005 <vcnote id='entname'>
2006 <head>Entity Name</head>
2007 <p>
2008 Values of type <kw>ENTITY</kw>
2009 must match the <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> production,
2010 values of type <kw>ENTITIES</kw> must match
2011 <nt def="NT-Names">Names</nt>;
2012 each <nt def="NT-Name">Name</nt> must
2013 match the
2014 name of an <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed entity</termref> declared in the
2015 <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>.
2016 </p>
2017 </vcnote>
2018 <vcnote id='nmtok'>
2019 <head>Name Token</head>
2020 <p>
2021 Values of type <kw>NMTOKEN</kw> must match the
2022 <nt def="NT-Nmtoken">Nmtoken</nt> production;
2023 values of type <kw>NMTOKENS</kw> must
2024 match <termref def="NT-Nmtokens">Nmtokens</termref>.
2025 </p>
2026 </vcnote>
2027 <!-- why?
2028 <p>The XML processor must normalize attribute values before
2029 passing them to the application, as described in
2030 <specref ref="AVNormalize"/>.</p>-->
2031 <p><termdef id='dt-enumerated' term='Enumerated Attribute
2032 Values'><term>Enumerated attributes</term> can take one
2033 of a list of values provided in the declaration</termdef>. There are two
2034 kinds of enumerated types:
2035 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2036 <head>Enumerated Attribute Types</head>
2037 <prod id='NT-EnumeratedType'><lhs>EnumeratedType</lhs>
2038 <rhs><nt def='NT-NotationType'>NotationType</nt>
2039 | <nt def='NT-Enumeration'>Enumeration</nt>
2040 </rhs></prod>
2041 <prod id='NT-NotationType'><lhs>NotationType</lhs>
2042 <rhs>'NOTATION'
2043 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
2044 '('
2045 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
2046 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
2047 (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '|' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
2048 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>)*
2049 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? ')'
2050 </rhs>
2051 <vc def='notatn' /></prod>
2052 <prod id='NT-Enumeration'><lhs>Enumeration</lhs>
2053 <rhs>'(' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
2054 <nt def='NT-Nmtoken'>Nmtoken</nt>
2055 (<nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '|'
2056 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
2057 <nt def='NT-Nmtoken'>Nmtoken</nt>)*
2058 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>?
2059 ')'</rhs>
2060 <vc def='enum'/></prod>
2061 </scrap>
2062 A <kw>NOTATION</kw> attribute identifies a
2063 <termref def='dt-notation'>notation</termref>, declared in the
2064 DTD with associated system and/or public identifiers, to
2065 be used in interpreting the element to which the attribute
2066 is attached.
2067 </p>
2068
2069 <vcnote id='notatn'>
2070 <head>Notation Attributes</head>
2071 <p>
2072 Values of this type must match
2073 one of the <titleref href='Notations'>notation</titleref> names included in
2074 the declaration; all notation names in the declaration must
2075 be declared.
2076 </p>
2077 </vcnote>
2078 <vcnote id='enum'>
2079 <head>Enumeration</head>
2080 <p>
2081 Values of this type
2082 must match one of the <nt def='NT-Nmtoken'>Nmtoken</nt> tokens in the
2083 declaration.
2084 </p>
2085 </vcnote>
2086 <p><termref def='dt-interop'>For interoperability,</termref> the same
2087 <nt def='NT-Nmtoken'>Nmtoken</nt> should not occur more than once in the
2088 enumerated attribute types of a single element type.
2089 </p>
2090 </div3>
2091
2092 <div3 id='sec-attr-defaults'>
2093 <head>Attribute Defaults</head>
2094
2095 <p>An <termref def="dt-attdecl">attribute declaration</termref> provides
2096 information on whether
2097 the attribute's presence is required, and if not, how an XML processor should
2098 react if a declared attribute is absent in a document.
2099 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2100 <head>Attribute Defaults</head>
2101 <prodgroup pcw4="14" pcw5="11.5">
2102 <prod id='NT-DefaultDecl'><lhs>DefaultDecl</lhs>
2103 <rhs>'#REQUIRED'
2104 |&nbsp;'#IMPLIED' </rhs>
2105 <rhs>| (('#FIXED' S)? <nt def='NT-AttValue'>AttValue</nt>)</rhs>
2106 <vc def='RequiredAttr'/>
2107 <vc def='defattrvalid'/>
2108 <wfc def="CleanAttrVals"/>
2109 <vc def='FixedAttr'/>
2110 </prod>
2111 </prodgroup>
2112 </scrap>
2113
2114 </p>
2115 <p>In an attribute declaration, <kw>#REQUIRED</kw> means that the
2116 attribute must always be provided, <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> that no default
2117 value is provided.
2118 <!-- not any more!!
2119 <kw>#IMPLIED</kw> means that if the attribute is omitted
2120 from an element of this type,
2121 the XML processor must inform the application
2122 that no value was specified; no constraint is placed on the behavior
2123 of the application. -->
2124 <termdef id="dt-default" term="Attribute Default">If the
2125 declaration
2126 is neither <kw>#REQUIRED</kw> nor <kw>#IMPLIED</kw>, then the
2127 <nt def='NT-AttValue'>AttValue</nt> value contains the declared
2128 <term>default</term> value; the <kw>#FIXED</kw> keyword states that
2129 the attribute must always have the default value.
2130 If a default value
2131 is declared, when an XML processor encounters an omitted attribute, it
2132 is to behave as though the attribute were present with
2133 the declared default value.</termdef></p>
2134 <vcnote id='RequiredAttr'>
2135 <head>Required Attribute</head>
2136 <p>If the default declaration is the keyword <kw>#REQUIRED</kw>, then
2137 the attribute must be specified for
2138 all elements of the type in the attribute-list declaration.
2139 </p></vcnote>
2140 <vcnote id='defattrvalid'>
2141 <head>Attribute Default Legal</head>
2142 <p>
2143 The declared
2144 default value must meet the lexical constraints of the declared attribute type.
2145 </p>
2146 </vcnote>
2147 <vcnote id='FixedAttr'>
2148 <head>Fixed Attribute Default</head>
2149 <p>If an attribute has a default value declared with the
2150 <kw>#FIXED</kw> keyword, instances of that attribute must
2151 match the default value.
2152 </p></vcnote>
2153
2154 <p>Examples of attribute-list declarations:
2155 <eg>&lt;!ATTLIST termdef
2156 id ID #REQUIRED
2157 name CDATA #IMPLIED>
2158 &lt;!ATTLIST list
2159 type (bullets|ordered|glossary) "ordered">
2160 &lt;!ATTLIST form
2161 method CDATA #FIXED "POST"></eg></p>
2162 </div3>
2163 <div3 id='AVNormalize'>
2164 <head>Attribute-Value Normalization</head>
2165 <p>Before the value of an attribute is passed to the application
2166 or checked for validity, the
2167 XML processor must normalize it as follows:
2168 <ulist>
2169 <item><p>a character reference is processed by appending the referenced
2170 character to the attribute value</p></item>
2171 <item><p>an entity reference is processed by recursively processing the
2172 replacement text of the entity</p></item>
2173 <item><p>a whitespace character (#x20, #xD, #xA, #x9) is processed by
2174 appending #x20 to the normalized value, except that only a single #x20
2175 is appended for a "#xD#xA" sequence that is part of an external
2176 parsed entity or the literal entity value of an internal parsed
2177 entity</p></item>
2178 <item><p>other characters are processed by appending them to the normalized
2179 value</p>
2180 </item></ulist>
2181 </p>
2182 <p>If the declared value is not CDATA, then the XML processor must
2183 further process the normalized attribute value by discarding any
2184 leading and trailing space (#x20) characters, and by replacing
2185 sequences of space (#x20) characters by a single space (#x20)
2186 character.</p>
2187 <p>
2188 All attributes for which no declaration has been read should be treated
2189 by a non-validating parser as if declared
2190 <kw>CDATA</kw>.
2191 </p>
2192 </div3>
2193 </div2>
2194 <div2 id='sec-condition-sect'>
2195 <head>Conditional Sections</head>
2196 <p><termdef id='dt-cond-section' term='conditional section'>
2197 <term>Conditional sections</term> are portions of the
2198 <termref def='dt-doctype'>document type declaration external subset</termref>
2199 which are
2200 included in, or excluded from, the logical structure of the DTD based on
2201 the keyword which governs them.</termdef>
2202 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2203 <head>Conditional Section</head>
2204 <prodgroup pcw2="9" pcw4="14.5">
2205 <prod id='NT-conditionalSect'><lhs>conditionalSect</lhs>
2206 <rhs><nt def='NT-includeSect'>includeSect</nt>
2207 | <nt def='NT-ignoreSect'>ignoreSect</nt>
2208 </rhs>
2209 </prod>
2210 <prod id='NT-includeSect'><lhs>includeSect</lhs>
2211 <rhs>'&lt;![' S? 'INCLUDE' S? '['
2212
2213 <nt def="NT-extSubsetDecl">extSubsetDecl</nt>
2214 ']]&gt;'
2215 </rhs>
2216 </prod>
2217 <prod id='NT-ignoreSect'><lhs>ignoreSect</lhs>
2218 <rhs>'&lt;![' S? 'IGNORE' S? '['
2219 <nt def="NT-ignoreSectContents">ignoreSectContents</nt>*
2220 ']]&gt;'</rhs>
2221 </prod>
2222
2223 <prod id='NT-ignoreSectContents'><lhs>ignoreSectContents</lhs>
2224 <rhs><nt def='NT-Ignore'>Ignore</nt>
2225 ('&lt;![' <nt def='NT-ignoreSectContents'>ignoreSectContents</nt> ']]&gt;'
2226 <nt def='NT-Ignore'>Ignore</nt>)*</rhs></prod>
2227 <prod id='NT-Ignore'><lhs>Ignore</lhs>
2228 <rhs><nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>* -
2229 (<nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>* ('&lt;![' | ']]&gt;')
2230 <nt def='NT-Char'>Char</nt>*)
2231 </rhs></prod>
2232
2233 </prodgroup>
2234 </scrap>
2235 </p>
2236 <p>Like the internal and external DTD subsets, a conditional section
2237 may contain one or more complete declarations,
2238 comments, processing instructions,
2239 or nested conditional sections, intermingled with white space.
2240 </p>
2241 <p>If the keyword of the
2242 conditional section is <kw>INCLUDE</kw>, then the contents of the conditional
2243 section are part of the DTD.
2244 If the keyword of the conditional
2245 section is <kw>IGNORE</kw>, then the contents of the conditional section are
2246 not logically part of the DTD.
2247 Note that for reliable parsing, the contents of even ignored
2248 conditional sections must be read in order to
2249 detect nested conditional sections and ensure that the end of the
2250 outermost (ignored) conditional section is properly detected.
2251 If a conditional section with a
2252 keyword of <kw>INCLUDE</kw> occurs within a larger conditional
2253 section with a keyword of <kw>IGNORE</kw>, both the outer and the
2254 inner conditional sections are ignored.</p>
2255 <p>If the keyword of the conditional section is a
2256 parameter-entity reference, the parameter entity must be replaced by its
2257 content before the processor decides whether to
2258 include or ignore the conditional section.</p>
2259 <p>An example:
2260 <eg>&lt;!ENTITY % draft 'INCLUDE' >
2261 &lt;!ENTITY % final 'IGNORE' >
2262
2263 &lt;![%draft;[
2264 &lt;!ELEMENT book (comments*, title, body, supplements?)>
2265 ]]&gt;
2266 &lt;![%final;[
2267 &lt;!ELEMENT book (title, body, supplements?)>
2268 ]]&gt;
2269 </eg>
2270 </p>
2271 </div2>
2272
2273
2274 <!--
2275 <div2 id='sec-pass-to-app'>
2276 <head>XML Processor Treatment of Logical Structure</head>
2277 <p>When an XML processor encounters a start-tag, it must make
2278 at least the following information available to the application:
2279 <ulist>
2280 <item>
2281 <p>the element type's generic identifier</p>
2282 </item>
2283 <item>
2284 <p>the names of attributes known to apply to this element type
2285 (validating processors must make available names of all attributes
2286 declared for the element type; non-validating processors must
2287 make available at least the names of the attributes for which
2288 values are specified.
2289 </p>
2290 </item>
2291 </ulist>
2292 </p>
2293 </div2>
2294 -->
2295
2296 </div1>
2297 <!-- &Entities; -->
2298
2299 <div1 id='sec-physical-struct'>
2300 <head>Physical Structures</head>
2301
2302 <p><termdef id="dt-entity" term="Entity">An XML document may consist
2303 of one or many storage units. These are called
2304 <term>entities</term>; they all have <term>content</term> and are all
2305 (except for the document entity, see below, and
2306 the <termref def='dt-doctype'>external DTD subset</termref>)
2307 identified by <term>name</term>.
2308 </termdef>
2309 Each XML document has one entity
2310 called the <termref def="dt-docent">document entity</termref>, which serves
2311 as the starting point for the <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML
2312 processor</termref> and may contain the whole document.</p>
2313 <p>Entities may be either parsed or unparsed.
2314 <termdef id="dt-parsedent" term="Text Entity">A <term>parsed entity's</term>
2315 contents are referred to as its
2316 <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement text</termref>;
2317 this <termref def="dt-text">text</termref> is considered an
2318 integral part of the document.</termdef></p>
2319
2320 <p><termdef id="dt-unparsed" term="Unparsed Entity">An
2321 <term>unparsed entity</term>
2322 is a resource whose contents may or may not be
2323 <termref def='dt-text'>text</termref>, and if text, may not be XML.
2324 Each unparsed entity
2325 has an associated <termref
2326 def="dt-notation">notation</termref>, identified by name.
2327 Beyond a requirement
2328 that an XML processor make the identifiers for the entity and
2329 notation available to the application,
2330 XML places no constraints on the contents of unparsed entities.</termdef>
2331 </p>
2332 <p>
2333 Parsed entities are invoked by name using entity references;
2334 unparsed entities by name, given in the value of <kw>ENTITY</kw>
2335 or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>
2336 attributes.</p>
2337 <p><termdef id='gen-entity' term='general entity'
2338 ><term>General entities</term>
2339 are entities for use within the document content.
2340 In this specification, general entities are sometimes referred
2341 to with the unqualified term <emph>entity</emph> when this leads
2342 to no ambiguity.</termdef>
2343 <termdef id='dt-PE' term='Parameter entity'>Parameter entities
2344 are parsed entities for use within the DTD.</termdef>
2345 These two types of entities use different forms of reference and
2346 are recognized in different contexts.
2347 Furthermore, they occupy different namespaces; a parameter entity and
2348 a general entity with the same name are two distinct entities.
2349 </p>
2350
2351 <div2 id='sec-references'>
2352 <head>Character and Entity References</head>
2353 <p><termdef id="dt-charref" term="Character Reference">
2354 A <term>character reference</term> refers to a specific character in the
2355 ISO/IEC 10646 character set, for example one not directly accessible from
2356 available input devices.
2357 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2358 <head>Character Reference</head>
2359 <prod id='NT-CharRef'><lhs>CharRef</lhs>
2360 <rhs>'&amp;#' [0-9]+ ';' </rhs>
2361 <rhs>| '&hcro;' [0-9a-fA-F]+ ';'</rhs>
2362 <wfc def="wf-Legalchar"/>
2363 </prod>
2364 </scrap>
2365 <wfcnote id="wf-Legalchar">
2366 <head>Legal Character</head>
2367 <p>Characters referred to using character references must
2368 match the production for
2369 <termref def="NT-Char">Char</termref>.</p>
2370 </wfcnote>
2371 If the character reference begins with "<code>&amp;#x</code>", the digits and
2372 letters up to the terminating <code>;</code> provide a hexadecimal
2373 representation of the character's code point in ISO/IEC 10646.
2374 If it begins just with "<code>&amp;#</code>", the digits up to the terminating
2375 <code>;</code> provide a decimal representation of the character's
2376 code point.
2377 </termdef>
2378 </p>
2379 <p><termdef id="dt-entref" term="Entity Reference">An <term>entity
2380 reference</term> refers to the content of a named entity.</termdef>
2381 <termdef id='dt-GERef' term='General Entity Reference'>References to
2382 parsed general entities
2383 use ampersand (<code>&amp;</code>) and semicolon (<code>;</code>) as
2384 delimiters.</termdef>
2385 <termdef id='dt-PERef' term='Parameter-entity reference'>
2386 <term>Parameter-entity references</term> use percent-sign (<code>%</code>) and
2387 semicolon
2388 (<code>;</code>) as delimiters.</termdef>
2389 </p>
2390 <scrap lang="ebnf">
2391 <head>Entity Reference</head>
2392 <prod id='NT-Reference'><lhs>Reference</lhs>
2393 <rhs><nt def='NT-EntityRef'>EntityRef</nt>
2394 | <nt def='NT-CharRef'>CharRef</nt></rhs></prod>
2395 <prod id='NT-EntityRef'><lhs>EntityRef</lhs>
2396 <rhs>'&amp;' <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> ';'</rhs>
2397 <wfc def='wf-entdeclared'/>
2398 <vc def='vc-entdeclared'/>
2399 <wfc def='textent'/>
2400 <wfc def='norecursion'/>
2401 </prod>
2402 <prod id='NT-PEReference'><lhs>PEReference</lhs>
2403 <rhs>'%' <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> ';'</rhs>
2404 <vc def='vc-entdeclared'/>
2405 <wfc def='norecursion'/>
2406 <wfc def='indtd'/>
2407 </prod>
2408 </scrap>
2409
2410 <wfcnote id='wf-entdeclared'>
2411 <head>Entity Declared</head>
2412 <p>In a document without any DTD, a document with only an internal
2413 DTD subset which contains no parameter entity references, or a document with
2414 "<code>standalone='yes'</code>",
2415 the <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> given in the entity reference must
2416 <termref def="dt-match">match</termref> that in an
2417 <titleref href='sec-entity-decl'>entity declaration</titleref>, except that
2418 well-formed documents need not declare
2419 any of the following entities: &magicents;.
2420 The declaration of a parameter entity must precede any reference to it.
2421 Similarly, the declaration of a general entity must precede any
2422 reference to it which appears in a default value in an attribute-list
2423 declaration.</p>
2424 <p>Note that if entities are declared in the external subset or in
2425 external parameter entities, a non-validating processor is
2426 <titleref href='include-if-valid'>not obligated to</titleref> read
2427 and process their declarations; for such documents, the rule that
2428 an entity must be declared is a well-formedness constraint only
2429 if <titleref href='sec-rmd'>standalone='yes'</titleref>.</p>
2430 </wfcnote>
2431 <vcnote id="vc-entdeclared">
2432 <head>Entity Declared</head>
2433 <p>In a document with an external subset or external parameter
2434 entities with "<code>standalone='no'</code>",
2435 the <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> given in the entity reference must <termref
2436 def="dt-match">match</termref> that in an
2437 <titleref href='sec-entity-decl'>entity declaration</titleref>.
2438 For interoperability, valid documents should declare the entities
2439 &magicents;, in the form
2440 specified in <specref ref="sec-predefined-ent"/>.
2441 The declaration of a parameter entity must precede any reference to it.
2442 Similarly, the declaration of a general entity must precede any
2443 reference to it which appears in a default value in an attribute-list
2444 declaration.</p>
2445 </vcnote>
2446 <!-- FINAL EDIT: is this duplication too clumsy? -->
2447 <wfcnote id='textent'>
2448 <head>Parsed Entity</head>
2449 <p>
2450 An entity reference must not contain the name of an <termref
2451 def="dt-unparsed">unparsed entity</termref>. Unparsed entities may be referred
2452 to only in <termref def="dt-attrval">attribute values</termref> declared to
2453 be of type <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>.
2454 </p>
2455 </wfcnote>
2456 <wfcnote id='norecursion'>
2457 <head>No Recursion</head>
2458 <p>
2459 A parsed entity must not contain a recursive reference to itself,
2460 either directly or indirectly.
2461 </p>
2462 </wfcnote>
2463 <wfcnote id='indtd'>
2464 <head>In DTD</head>
2465 <p>
2466 Parameter-entity references may only appear in the
2467 <termref def='dt-doctype'>DTD</termref>.
2468 </p>
2469 </wfcnote>
2470 <p>Examples of character and entity references:
2471 <eg>Type &lt;key>less-than&lt;/key> (&hcro;3C;) to save options.
2472 This document was prepared on &amp;docdate; and
2473 is classified &amp;security-level;.</eg></p>
2474 <p>Example of a parameter-entity reference:
2475 <eg><![CDATA[<!-- declare the parameter entity "ISOLat2"... -->
2476 <!ENTITY % ISOLat2
2477 SYSTEM "http://www.xml.com/iso/isolat2-xml.entities" >
2478 <!-- ... now reference it. -->
2479 %ISOLat2;]]></eg></p>
2480 </div2>
2481
2482 <div2 id='sec-entity-decl'>
2483 <head>Entity Declarations</head>
2484
2485 <p><termdef id="dt-entdecl" term="entity declaration">
2486 Entities are declared thus:
2487 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2488 <head>Entity Declaration</head>
2489 <prodgroup pcw2="5" pcw4="18.5">
2490 <prod id='NT-EntityDecl'><lhs>EntityDecl</lhs>
2491 <rhs><nt def="NT-GEDecl">GEDecl</nt><!--</rhs><com>General entities</com>
2492 <rhs>--> | <nt def="NT-PEDecl">PEDecl</nt></rhs>
2493 <!--<com>Parameter entities</com>-->
2494 </prod>
2495 <prod id='NT-GEDecl'><lhs>GEDecl</lhs>
2496 <rhs>'&lt;!ENTITY' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
2497 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-EntityDef'>EntityDef</nt>
2498 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '&gt;'</rhs>
2499 </prod>
2500 <prod id='NT-PEDecl'><lhs>PEDecl</lhs>
2501 <rhs>'&lt;!ENTITY' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> '%' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
2502 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
2503 <nt def='NT-PEDef'>PEDef</nt> <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '&gt;'</rhs>
2504 <!--<com>Parameter entities</com>-->
2505 </prod>
2506 <prod id='NT-EntityDef'><lhs>EntityDef</lhs>
2507 <rhs><nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt>
2508 <!--</rhs>
2509 <rhs>-->| (<nt def='NT-ExternalID'>ExternalID</nt>
2510 <nt def='NT-NDataDecl'>NDataDecl</nt>?)</rhs>
2511 <!-- <nt def='NT-ExternalDef'>ExternalDef</nt></rhs> -->
2512 </prod>
2513 <!-- FINAL EDIT: what happened to WFs here? -->
2514 <prod id='NT-PEDef'><lhs>PEDef</lhs>
2515 <rhs><nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt>
2516 | <nt def='NT-ExternalID'>ExternalID</nt></rhs></prod>
2517 </prodgroup>
2518 </scrap>
2519 The <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> identifies the entity in an
2520 <termref def="dt-entref">entity reference</termref> or, in the case of an
2521 unparsed entity, in the value of an <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>
2522 attribute.
2523 If the same entity is declared more than once, the first declaration
2524 encountered is binding; at user option, an XML processor may issue a
2525 warning if entities are declared multiple times.</termdef>
2526 </p>
2527
2528 <div3 id='sec-internal-ent'>
2529 <head>Internal Entities</head>
2530
2531 <p><termdef id='dt-internent' term="Internal Entity Replacement Text">If
2532 the entity definition is an
2533 <nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt>,
2534 the defined entity is called an <term>internal entity</term>.
2535 There is no separate physical
2536 storage object, and the content of the entity is given in the
2537 declaration. </termdef>
2538 Note that some processing of entity and character references in the
2539 <termref def='dt-litentval'>literal entity value</termref> may be required to
2540 produce the correct <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement
2541 text</termref>: see <specref ref='intern-replacement'/>.
2542 </p>
2543 <p>An internal entity is a <termref def="dt-parsedent">parsed
2544 entity</termref>.</p>
2545 <p>Example of an internal entity declaration:
2546 <eg>&lt;!ENTITY Pub-Status "This is a pre-release of the
2547 specification."></eg></p>
2548 </div3>
2549
2550 <div3 id='sec-external-ent'>
2551 <head>External Entities</head>
2552
2553 <p><termdef id="dt-extent" term="External Entity">If the entity is not
2554 internal, it is an <term>external
2555 entity</term>, declared as follows:
2556 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2557 <head>External Entity Declaration</head>
2558 <!--
2559 <prod id='NT-ExternalDef'><lhs>ExternalDef</lhs>
2560 <rhs></prod> -->
2561 <prod id='NT-ExternalID'><lhs>ExternalID</lhs>
2562 <rhs>'SYSTEM' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
2563 <nt def='NT-SystemLiteral'>SystemLiteral</nt></rhs>
2564 <rhs>| 'PUBLIC' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
2565 <nt def='NT-PubidLiteral'>PubidLiteral</nt>
2566 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
2567 <nt def='NT-SystemLiteral'>SystemLiteral</nt>
2568 </rhs>
2569 </prod>
2570 <prod id='NT-NDataDecl'><lhs>NDataDecl</lhs>
2571 <rhs><nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> 'NDATA' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
2572 <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt></rhs>
2573 <vc def='not-declared'/></prod>
2574 </scrap>
2575 If the <nt def='NT-NDataDecl'>NDataDecl</nt> is present, this is a
2576 general <termref def="dt-unparsed">unparsed
2577 entity</termref>; otherwise it is a parsed entity.</termdef></p>
2578 <vcnote id='not-declared'>
2579 <head>Notation Declared</head>
2580 <p>
2581 The <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt> must match the declared name of a
2582 <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>.
2583 </p>
2584 </vcnote>
2585 <p><termdef id="dt-sysid" term="System Identifier">The
2586 <nt def='NT-SystemLiteral'>SystemLiteral</nt>
2587 is called the entity's <term>system identifier</term>. It is a URI,
2588 which may be used to retrieve the entity.</termdef>
2589 Note that the hash mark (<code>#</code>) and fragment identifier
2590 frequently used with URIs are not, formally, part of the URI itself;
2591 an XML processor may signal an error if a fragment identifier is
2592 given as part of a system identifier.
2593 Unless otherwise provided by information outside the scope of this
2594 specification (e.g. a special XML element type defined by a particular
2595 DTD, or a processing instruction defined by a particular application
2596 specification), relative URIs are relative to the location of the
2597 resource within which the entity declaration occurs.
2598 A URI might thus be relative to the
2599 <termref def='dt-docent'>document entity</termref>, to the entity
2600 containing the <termref def='dt-doctype'>external DTD subset</termref>,
2601 or to some other <termref def='dt-extent'>external parameter entity</termref>.
2602 </p>
2603 <p>An XML processor should handle a non-ASCII character in a URI by
2604 representing the character in UTF-8 as one or more bytes, and then
2605 escaping these bytes with the URI escaping mechanism (i.e., by
2606 converting each byte to %HH, where HH is the hexadecimal notation of the
2607 byte value).</p>
2608 <p><termdef id="dt-pubid" term="Public identifier">
2609 In addition to a system identifier, an external identifier may
2610 include a <term>public identifier</term>.</termdef>
2611 An XML processor attempting to retrieve the entity's content may use the public
2612 identifier to try to generate an alternative URI. If the processor
2613 is unable to do so, it must use the URI specified in the system
2614 literal. Before a match is attempted, all strings
2615 of white space in the public identifier must be normalized to single space characters (#x20),
2616 and leading and trailing white space must be removed.</p>
2617 <p>Examples of external entity declarations:
2618 <eg>&lt;!ENTITY open-hatch
2619 SYSTEM "http://www.textuality.com/boilerplate/OpenHatch.xml">
2620 &lt;!ENTITY open-hatch
2621 PUBLIC "-//Textuality//TEXT Standard open-hatch boilerplate//EN"
2622 "http://www.textuality.com/boilerplate/OpenHatch.xml">
2623 &lt;!ENTITY hatch-pic
2624 SYSTEM "../grafix/OpenHatch.gif"
2625 NDATA gif ></eg></p>
2626 </div3>
2627
2628 </div2>
2629
2630 <div2 id='TextEntities'>
2631 <head>Parsed Entities</head>
2632 <div3 id='sec-TextDecl'>
2633 <head>The Text Declaration</head>
2634 <p>External parsed entities may each begin with a <term>text
2635 declaration</term>.
2636 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2637 <head>Text Declaration</head>
2638 <prodgroup pcw4="12.5" pcw5="13">
2639 <prod id='NT-TextDecl'><lhs>TextDecl</lhs>
2640 <rhs>&xmlpio;
2641 <nt def='NT-VersionInfo'>VersionInfo</nt>?
2642 <nt def='NT-EncodingDecl'>EncodingDecl</nt>
2643 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? &pic;</rhs>
2644 </prod>
2645 </prodgroup>
2646 </scrap>
2647 </p>
2648 <p>The text declaration must be provided literally, not
2649 by reference to a parsed entity.
2650 No text declaration may appear at any position other than the beginning of
2651 an external parsed entity.</p>
2652 </div3>
2653 <div3 id='wf-entities'>
2654 <head>Well-Formed Parsed Entities</head>
2655 <p>The document entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled
2656 <nt def='NT-document'>document</nt>.
2657 An external general
2658 parsed entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled
2659 <nt def='NT-extParsedEnt'>extParsedEnt</nt>.
2660 An external parameter
2661 entity is well-formed if it matches the production labeled
2662 <nt def='NT-extPE'>extPE</nt>.
2663 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2664 <head>Well-Formed External Parsed Entity</head>
2665 <prod id='NT-extParsedEnt'><lhs>extParsedEnt</lhs>
2666 <rhs><nt def='NT-TextDecl'>TextDecl</nt>?
2667 <nt def='NT-content'>content</nt></rhs>
2668 </prod>
2669 <prod id='NT-extPE'><lhs>extPE</lhs>
2670 <rhs><nt def='NT-TextDecl'>TextDecl</nt>?
2671 <nt def='NT-extSubsetDecl'>extSubsetDecl</nt></rhs>
2672 </prod>
2673 </scrap>
2674 An internal general parsed entity is well-formed if its replacement text
2675 matches the production labeled
2676 <nt def='NT-content'>content</nt>.
2677 All internal parameter entities are well-formed by definition.
2678 </p>
2679 <p>A consequence of well-formedness in entities is that the logical
2680 and physical structures in an XML document are properly nested; no
2681 <termref def='dt-stag'>start-tag</termref>,
2682 <termref def='dt-etag'>end-tag</termref>,
2683 <termref def="dt-empty">empty-element tag</termref>,
2684 <termref def='dt-element'>element</termref>,
2685 <termref def='dt-comment'>comment</termref>,
2686 <termref def='dt-pi'>processing instruction</termref>,
2687 <termref def='dt-charref'>character
2688 reference</termref>, or
2689 <termref def='dt-entref'>entity reference</termref>
2690 can begin in one entity and end in another.</p>
2691 </div3>
2692 <div3 id='charencoding'>
2693 <head>Character Encoding in Entities</head>
2694
2695 <p>Each external parsed entity in an XML document may use a different
2696 encoding for its characters. All XML processors must be able to read
2697 entities in either UTF-8 or UTF-16.
2698
2699 </p>
2700 <p>Entities encoded in UTF-16 must
2701 begin with the Byte Order Mark described by ISO/IEC 10646 Annex E and
2702 Unicode Appendix B (the ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE character, #xFEFF).
2703 This is an encoding signature, not part of either the markup or the
2704 character data of the XML document.
2705 XML processors must be able to use this character to
2706 differentiate between UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoded documents.</p>
2707 <p>Although an XML processor is required to read only entities in
2708 the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings, it is recognized that other encodings are
2709 used around the world, and it may be desired for XML processors
2710 to read entities that use them.
2711 Parsed entities which are stored in an encoding other than
2712 UTF-8 or UTF-16 must begin with a <titleref href='TextDecl'>text
2713 declaration</titleref> containing an encoding declaration:
2714 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
2715 <head>Encoding Declaration</head>
2716 <prod id='NT-EncodingDecl'><lhs>EncodingDecl</lhs>
2717 <rhs><nt def="NT-S">S</nt>
2718 'encoding' <nt def='NT-Eq'>Eq</nt>
2719 ('"' <nt def='NT-EncName'>EncName</nt> '"' |
2720 "'" <nt def='NT-EncName'>EncName</nt> "'" )
2721 </rhs>
2722 </prod>
2723 <prod id='NT-EncName'><lhs>EncName</lhs>
2724 <rhs>[A-Za-z] ([A-Za-z0-9._] | '-')*</rhs>
2725 <com>Encoding name contains only Latin characters</com>
2726 </prod>
2727 </scrap>
2728 In the <termref def='dt-docent'>document entity</termref>, the encoding
2729 declaration is part of the <termref def="dt-xmldecl">XML declaration</termref>.
2730 The <nt def="NT-EncName">EncName</nt> is the name of the encoding used.
2731 </p>
2732 <!-- FINAL EDIT: check name of IANA and charset names -->
2733 <p>In an encoding declaration, the values
2734 "<code>UTF-8</code>",
2735 "<code>UTF-16</code>",
2736 "<code>ISO-10646-UCS-2</code>", and
2737 "<code>ISO-10646-UCS-4</code>" should be
2738 used for the various encodings and transformations of Unicode /
2739 ISO/IEC 10646, the values
2740 "<code>ISO-8859-1</code>",
2741 "<code>ISO-8859-2</code>", ...
2742 "<code>ISO-8859-9</code>" should be used for the parts of ISO 8859, and
2743 the values
2744 "<code>ISO-2022-JP</code>",
2745 "<code>Shift_JIS</code>", and
2746 "<code>EUC-JP</code>"
2747 should be used for the various encoded forms of JIS X-0208-1997. XML
2748 processors may recognize other encodings; it is recommended that
2749 character encodings registered (as <emph>charset</emph>s)
2750 with the Internet Assigned Numbers
2751 Authority <bibref ref='IANA'/>, other than those just listed, should be
2752 referred to
2753 using their registered names.
2754 Note that these registered names are defined to be
2755 case-insensitive, so processors wishing to match against them
2756 should do so in a case-insensitive
2757 way.</p>
2758 <p>In the absence of information provided by an external
2759 transport protocol (e.g. HTTP or MIME),
2760 it is an <termref def="dt-error">error</termref> for an entity including
2761 an encoding declaration to be presented to the XML processor
2762 in an encoding other than that named in the declaration,
2763 for an encoding declaration to occur other than at the beginning
2764 of an external entity, or for
2765 an entity which begins with neither a Byte Order Mark nor an encoding
2766 declaration to use an encoding other than UTF-8.
2767 Note that since ASCII
2768 is a subset of UTF-8, ordinary ASCII entities do not strictly need
2769 an encoding declaration.</p>
2770
2771 <p>It is a <termref def='dt-fatal'>fatal error</termref> when an XML processor
2772 encounters an entity with an encoding that it is unable to process.</p>
2773 <p>Examples of encoding declarations:
2774 <eg>&lt;?xml encoding='UTF-8'?>
2775 &lt;?xml encoding='EUC-JP'?></eg></p>
2776 </div3>
2777 </div2>
2778 <div2 id='entproc'>
2779 <head>XML Processor Treatment of Entities and References</head>
2780 <p>The table below summarizes the contexts in which character references,
2781 entity references, and invocations of unparsed entities might appear and the
2782 required behavior of an <termref def='dt-xml-proc'>XML processor</termref> in
2783 each case.
2784 The labels in the leftmost column describe the recognition context:
2785 <glist>
2786 <gitem><label>Reference in Content</label>
2787 <def><p>as a reference
2788 anywhere after the <termref def='dt-stag'>start-tag</termref> and
2789 before the <termref def='dt-etag'>end-tag</termref> of an element; corresponds
2790 to the nonterminal <nt def='NT-content'>content</nt>.</p></def>
2791 </gitem>
2792 <gitem>
2793 <label>Reference in Attribute Value</label>
2794 <def><p>as a reference within either the value of an attribute in a
2795 <termref def='dt-stag'>start-tag</termref>, or a default
2796 value in an <termref def='dt-attdecl'>attribute declaration</termref>;
2797 corresponds to the nonterminal
2798 <nt def='NT-AttValue'>AttValue</nt>.</p></def></gitem>
2799 <gitem>
2800 <label>Occurs as Attribute Value</label>
2801 <def><p>as a <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>, not a reference, appearing either as
2802 the value of an
2803 attribute which has been declared as type <kw>ENTITY</kw>, or as one of
2804 the space-separated tokens in the value of an attribute which has been
2805 declared as type <kw>ENTITIES</kw>.</p>
2806 </def></gitem>
2807 <gitem><label>Reference in Entity Value</label>
2808 <def><p>as a reference
2809 within a parameter or internal entity's
2810 <termref def='dt-litentval'>literal entity value</termref> in
2811 the entity's declaration; corresponds to the nonterminal
2812 <nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt>.</p></def></gitem>
2813 <gitem><label>Reference in DTD</label>
2814 <def><p>as a reference within either the internal or external subsets of the
2815 <termref def='dt-doctype'>DTD</termref>, but outside
2816 of an <nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt> or
2817 <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>.</p></def>
2818 </gitem>
2819 </glist></p>
2820 <htable border='1' cellpadding='7' align='center'>
2821 <htbody>
2822 <tr><td bgcolor='&cellback;' rowspan='2' colspan='1'></td>
2823 <td bgcolor='&cellback;' align='center' valign='bottom' colspan='4'>Entity Type</td>
2824 <td bgcolor='&cellback;' rowspan='2' align='center'>Character</td>
2825 </tr>
2826 <tr align='center' valign='bottom'>
2827 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'>Parameter</td>
2828 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'>Internal
2829 General</td>
2830 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'>External Parsed
2831 General</td>
2832 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'>Unparsed</td>
2833 </tr>
2834 <tr align='center' valign='middle'>
2835
2836 <td bgcolor='&cellback;' align='right'>Reference
2837 in Content</td>
2838 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='not-recognized'>Not recognized</titleref></td>
2839 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='included'>Included</titleref></td>
2840 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='include-if-valid'>Included if validating</titleref></td>
2841 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='forbidden'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2842 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='included'>Included</titleref></td>
2843 </tr>
2844 <tr align='center' valign='middle'>
2845 <td bgcolor='&cellback;' align='right'>Reference
2846 in Attribute Value</td>
2847 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='not-recognized'>Not recognized</titleref></td>
2848 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='inliteral'>Included in literal</titleref></td>
2849 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='forbidden'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2850 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='forbidden'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2851 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='included'>Included</titleref></td>
2852 </tr>
2853 <tr align='center' valign='middle'>
2854 <td bgcolor='&cellback;' align='right'>Occurs as
2855 Attribute Value</td>
2856 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='not-recognized'>Not recognized</titleref></td>
2857 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='not-recognized'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2858 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='not-recognized'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2859 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='notify'>Notify</titleref></td>
2860 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='not recognized'>Not recognized</titleref></td>
2861 </tr>
2862 <tr align='center' valign='middle'>
2863 <td bgcolor='&cellback;' align='right'>Reference
2864 in EntityValue</td>
2865 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='inliteral'>Included in literal</titleref></td>
2866 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='bypass'>Bypassed</titleref></td>
2867 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='bypass'>Bypassed</titleref></td>
2868 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='forbidden'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2869 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='included'>Included</titleref></td>
2870 </tr>
2871 <tr align='center' valign='middle'>
2872 <td bgcolor='&cellback;' align='right'>Reference
2873 in DTD</td>
2874 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='as-PE'>Included as PE</titleref></td>
2875 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='forbidden'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2876 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='forbidden'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2877 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='forbidden'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2878 <td bgcolor='&cellback;'><titleref href='forbidden'>Forbidden</titleref></td>
2879 </tr>
2880 </htbody>
2881 </htable>
2882 <div3 id='not-recognized'>
2883 <head>Not Recognized</head>
2884 <p>Outside the DTD, the <code>%</code> character has no
2885 special significance; thus, what would be parameter entity references in the
2886 DTD are not recognized as markup in <nt def='NT-content'>content</nt>.
2887 Similarly, the names of unparsed entities are not recognized except
2888 when they appear in the value of an appropriately declared attribute.
2889 </p>
2890 </div3>
2891 <div3 id='included'>
2892 <head>Included</head>
2893 <p><termdef id="dt-include" term="Include">An entity is
2894 <term>included</term> when its
2895 <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement text</termref> is retrieved
2896 and processed, in place of the reference itself,
2897 as though it were part of the document at the location the
2898 reference was recognized.
2899 The replacement text may contain both
2900 <termref def='dt-chardata'>character data</termref>
2901 and (except for parameter entities) <termref def="dt-markup">markup</termref>,
2902 which must be recognized in
2903 the usual way, except that the replacement text of entities used to escape
2904 markup delimiters (the entities &magicents;) is always treated as
2905 data. (The string "<code>AT&amp;amp;T;</code>" expands to
2906 "<code>AT&amp;T;</code>" and the remaining ampersand is not recognized
2907 as an entity-reference delimiter.)
2908 A character reference is <term>included</term> when the indicated
2909 character is processed in place of the reference itself.
2910 </termdef></p>
2911 </div3>
2912 <div3 id='include-if-valid'>
2913 <head>Included If Validating</head>
2914 <p>When an XML processor recognizes a reference to a parsed entity, in order
2915 to <termref def="dt-valid">validate</termref>
2916 the document, the processor must
2917 <termref def="dt-include">include</termref> its
2918 replacement text.
2919 If the entity is external, and the processor is not
2920 attempting to validate the XML document, the
2921 processor <termref def="dt-may">may</termref>, but need not,
2922 include the entity's replacement text.
2923 If a non-validating parser does not include the replacement text,
2924 it must inform the application that it recognized, but did not
2925 read, the entity.</p>
2926 <p>This rule is based on the recognition that the automatic inclusion
2927 provided by the SGML and XML entity mechanism, primarily designed
2928 to support modularity in authoring, is not necessarily
2929 appropriate for other applications, in particular document browsing.
2930 Browsers, for example, when encountering an external parsed entity reference,
2931 might choose to provide a visual indication of the entity's
2932 presence and retrieve it for display only on demand.
2933 </p>
2934 </div3>
2935 <div3 id='forbidden'>
2936 <head>Forbidden</head>
2937 <p>The following are forbidden, and constitute
2938 <termref def='dt-fatal'>fatal</termref> errors:
2939 <ulist>
2940 <item><p>the appearance of a reference to an
2941 <termref def='dt-unparsed'>unparsed entity</termref>.
2942 </p></item>
2943 <item><p>the appearance of any character or general-entity reference in the
2944 DTD except within an <nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt> or
2945 <nt def="NT-AttValue">AttValue</nt>.</p></item>
2946 <item><p>a reference to an external entity in an attribute value.</p>
2947 </item>
2948 </ulist>
2949 </p>
2950 </div3>
2951 <div3 id='inliteral'>
2952 <head>Included in Literal</head>
2953 <p>When an <termref def='dt-entref'>entity reference</termref> appears in an
2954 attribute value, or a parameter entity reference appears in a literal entity
2955 value, its <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement text</termref> is
2956 processed in place of the reference itself as though it
2957 were part of the document at the location the reference was recognized,
2958 except that a single or double quote character in the replacement text
2959 is always treated as a normal data character and will not terminate the
2960 literal.
2961 For example, this is well-formed:
2962 <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY % YN '"Yes"' >
2963 <!ENTITY WhatHeSaid "He said &YN;" >]]></eg>
2964 while this is not:
2965 <eg>&lt;!ENTITY EndAttr "27'" >
2966 &lt;element attribute='a-&amp;EndAttr;></eg>
2967 </p></div3>
2968 <div3 id='notify'>
2969 <head>Notify</head>
2970 <p>When the name of an <termref def='dt-unparsed'>unparsed
2971 entity</termref> appears as a token in the
2972 value of an attribute of declared type <kw>ENTITY</kw> or <kw>ENTITIES</kw>,
2973 a validating processor must inform the
2974 application of the <termref def='dt-sysid'>system</termref>
2975 and <termref def='dt-pubid'>public</termref> (if any)
2976 identifiers for both the entity and its associated
2977 <termref def="dt-notation">notation</termref>.</p>
2978 </div3>
2979 <div3 id='bypass'>
2980 <head>Bypassed</head>
2981 <p>When a general entity reference appears in the
2982 <nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt> in an entity declaration,
2983 it is bypassed and left as is.</p>
2984 </div3>
2985 <div3 id='as-PE'>
2986 <head>Included as PE</head>
2987 <p>Just as with external parsed entities, parameter entities
2988 need only be <titleref href='include-if-valid'>included if
2989 validating</titleref>.
2990 When a parameter-entity reference is recognized in the DTD
2991 and included, its
2992 <termref def='dt-repltext'>replacement
2993 text</termref> is enlarged by the attachment of one leading and one following
2994 space (#x20) character; the intent is to constrain the replacement
2995 text of parameter
2996 entities to contain an integral number of grammatical tokens in the DTD.
2997 </p>
2998 </div3>
2999
3000 </div2>
3001 <div2 id='intern-replacement'>
3002 <head>Construction of Internal Entity Replacement Text</head>
3003 <p>In discussing the treatment
3004 of internal entities, it is
3005 useful to distinguish two forms of the entity's value.
3006 <termdef id="dt-litentval" term='Literal Entity Value'>The <term>literal
3007 entity value</term> is the quoted string actually
3008 present in the entity declaration, corresponding to the
3009 non-terminal <nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt>.</termdef>
3010 <termdef id='dt-repltext' term='Replacement Text'>The <term>replacement
3011 text</term> is the content of the entity, after
3012 replacement of character references and parameter-entity
3013 references.
3014 </termdef></p>
3015
3016 <p>The literal entity value
3017 as given in an internal entity declaration
3018 (<nt def='NT-EntityValue'>EntityValue</nt>) may contain character,
3019 parameter-entity, and general-entity references.
3020 Such references must be contained entirely within the
3021 literal entity value.
3022 The actual replacement text that is
3023 <termref def='dt-include'>included</termref> as described above
3024 must contain the <emph>replacement text</emph> of any
3025 parameter entities referred to, and must contain the character
3026 referred to, in place of any character references in the
3027 literal entity value; however,
3028 general-entity references must be left as-is, unexpanded.
3029 For example, given the following declarations:
3030
3031 <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY % pub "&#xc9;ditions Gallimard" >
3032 <!ENTITY rights "All rights reserved" >
3033 <!ENTITY book "La Peste: Albert Camus,
3034 &#xA9; 1947 %pub;. &rights;" >]]></eg>
3035 then the replacement text for the entity "<code>book</code>" is:
3036 <eg>La Peste: Albert Camus,
3037 &#169; 1947 &#201;ditions Gallimard. &amp;rights;</eg>
3038 The general-entity reference "<code>&amp;rights;</code>" would be expanded
3039 should the reference "<code>&amp;book;</code>" appear in the document's
3040 content or an attribute value.</p>
3041 <p>These simple rules may have complex interactions; for a detailed
3042 discussion of a difficult example, see
3043 <specref ref='sec-entexpand'/>.
3044 </p>
3045
3046 </div2>
3047 <div2 id='sec-predefined-ent'>
3048 <head>Predefined Entities</head>
3049 <p><termdef id="dt-escape" term="escape">Entity and character
3050 references can both be used to <term>escape</term> the left angle bracket,
3051 ampersand, and other delimiters. A set of general entities
3052 (&magicents;) is specified for this purpose.
3053 Numeric character references may also be used; they are
3054 expanded immediately when recognized and must be treated as
3055 character data, so the numeric character references
3056 "<code>&amp;#60;</code>" and "<code>&amp;#38;</code>" may be used to
3057 escape <code>&lt;</code> and <code>&amp;</code> when they occur
3058 in character data.</termdef></p>
3059 <p>All XML processors must recognize these entities whether they
3060 are declared or not.
3061 <termref def='dt-interop'>For interoperability</termref>,
3062 valid XML documents should declare these
3063 entities, like any others, before using them.
3064 If the entities in question are declared, they must be declared
3065 as internal entities whose replacement text is the single
3066 character being escaped or a character reference to
3067 that character, as shown below.
3068 <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY lt "&#38;#60;">
3069 <!ENTITY gt "&#62;">
3070 <!ENTITY amp "&#38;#38;">
3071 <!ENTITY apos "&#39;">
3072 <!ENTITY quot "&#34;">
3073 ]]></eg>
3074 Note that the <code>&lt;</code> and <code>&amp;</code> characters
3075 in the declarations of "<code>lt</code>" and "<code>amp</code>"
3076 are doubly escaped to meet the requirement that entity replacement
3077 be well-formed.
3078 </p>
3079 </div2>
3080
3081 <div2 id='Notations'>
3082 <head>Notation Declarations</head>
3083
3084 <p><termdef id="dt-notation" term="Notation"><term>Notations</term> identify by
3085 name the format of <termref def="dt-extent">unparsed
3086 entities</termref>, the
3087 format of elements which bear a notation attribute,
3088 or the application to which
3089 a <termref def="dt-pi">processing instruction</termref> is
3090 addressed.</termdef></p>
3091 <p><termdef id="dt-notdecl" term="Notation Declaration">
3092 <term>Notation declarations</term>
3093 provide a name for the notation, for use in
3094 entity and attribute-list declarations and in attribute specifications,
3095 and an external identifier for the notation which may allow an XML
3096 processor or its client application to locate a helper application
3097 capable of processing data in the given notation.
3098 <scrap lang='ebnf'>
3099 <head>Notation Declarations</head>
3100 <prod id='NT-NotationDecl'><lhs>NotationDecl</lhs>
3101 <rhs>'&lt;!NOTATION' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt> <nt def='NT-Name'>Name</nt>
3102 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
3103 (<nt def='NT-ExternalID'>ExternalID</nt> |
3104 <nt def='NT-PublicID'>PublicID</nt>)
3105 <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>? '>'</rhs></prod>
3106 <prod id='NT-PublicID'><lhs>PublicID</lhs>
3107 <rhs>'PUBLIC' <nt def='NT-S'>S</nt>
3108 <nt def='NT-PubidLiteral'>PubidLiteral</nt>
3109 </rhs></prod>
3110 </scrap>
3111 </termdef></p>
3112 <p>XML processors must provide applications with the name and external
3113 identifier(s) of any notation declared and referred to in an attribute
3114 value, attribute definition, or entity declaration. They may
3115 additionally resolve the external identifier into the
3116 <termref def="dt-sysid">system identifier</termref>,
3117 file name, or other information needed to allow the
3118 application to call a processor for data in the notation described. (It
3119 is not an error, however, for XML documents to declare and refer to
3120 notations for which notation-specific applications are not available on
3121 the system where the XML processor or application is running.)</p>
3122 </div2>
3123
3124
3125 <div2 id='sec-doc-entity'>
3126 <head>Document Entity</head>
3127
3128 <p><termdef id="dt-docent" term="Document Entity">The <term>document
3129 entity</term> serves as the root of the entity
3130 tree and a starting-point for an <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML
3131 processor</termref>.</termdef>
3132 This specification does
3133 not specify how the document entity is to be located by an XML
3134 processor; unlike other entities, the document entity has no name and might
3135 well appear on a processor input stream
3136 without any identification at all.</p>
3137 </div2>
3138
3139
3140 </div1>
3141 <!-- &Conformance; -->
3142
3143 <div1 id='sec-conformance'>
3144 <head>Conformance</head>
3145
3146 <div2 id='proc-types'>
3147 <head>Validating and Non-Validating Processors</head>
3148 <p>Conforming <termref def="dt-xml-proc">XML processors</termref> fall into two
3149 classes: validating and non-validating.</p>
3150 <p>Validating and non-validating processors alike must report
3151 violations of this specification's well-formedness constraints
3152 in the content of the
3153 <termref def='dt-docent'>document entity</termref> and any
3154 other <termref def='dt-parsedent'>parsed entities</termref> that
3155 they read.</p>
3156 <p><termdef id="dt-validating" term="Validating Processor">
3157 <term>Validating processors</term> must report
3158 violations of the constraints expressed by the declarations in the
3159 <termref def="dt-doctype">DTD</termref>, and
3160 failures to fulfill the validity constraints given
3161 in this specification.
3162 </termdef>
3163 To accomplish this, validating XML processors must read and process the entire
3164 DTD and all external parsed entities referenced in the document.
3165 </p>
3166 <p>Non-validating processors are required to check only the
3167 <termref def='dt-docent'>document entity</termref>, including
3168 the entire internal DTD subset, for well-formedness.
3169 <termdef id='dt-use-mdecl' term='Process Declarations'>
3170 While they are not required to check the document for validity,
3171 they are required to
3172 <term>process</term> all the declarations they read in the
3173 internal DTD subset and in any parameter entity that they
3174 read, up to the first reference
3175 to a parameter entity that they do <emph>not</emph> read; that is to
3176 say, they must
3177 use the information in those declarations to
3178 <titleref href='AVNormalize'>normalize</titleref> attribute values,
3179 <titleref href='included'>include</titleref> the replacement text of
3180 internal entities, and supply
3181 <titleref href='sec-attr-defaults'>default attribute values</titleref>.
3182 </termdef>
3183 They must not <termref def='dt-use-mdecl'>process</termref>
3184 <termref def='dt-entdecl'>entity declarations</termref> or
3185 <termref def='dt-attdecl'>attribute-list declarations</termref>
3186 encountered after a reference to a parameter entity that is not
3187 read, since the entity may have contained overriding declarations.
3188 </p>
3189 </div2>
3190 <div2 id='safe-behavior'>
3191 <head>Using XML Processors</head>
3192 <p>The behavior of a validating XML processor is highly predictable; it
3193 must read every piece of a document and report all well-formedness and
3194 validity violations.
3195 Less is required of a non-validating processor; it need not read any
3196 part of the document other than the document entity.
3197 This has two effects that may be important to users of XML processors:
3198 <ulist>
3199 <item><p>Certain well-formedness errors, specifically those that require
3200 reading external entities, may not be detected by a non-validating processor.
3201 Examples include the constraints entitled
3202 <titleref href='wf-entdeclared'>Entity Declared</titleref>,
3203 <titleref href='wf-textent'>Parsed Entity</titleref>, and
3204 <titleref href='wf-norecursion'>No Recursion</titleref>, as well
3205 as some of the cases described as
3206 <titleref href='forbidden'>forbidden</titleref> in
3207 <specref ref='entproc'/>.</p></item>
3208 <item><p>The information passed from the processor to the application may
3209 vary, depending on whether the processor reads
3210 parameter and external entities.
3211 For example, a non-validating processor may not
3212 <titleref href='AVNormalize'>normalize</titleref> attribute values,
3213 <titleref href='included'>include</titleref> the replacement text of
3214 internal entities, or supply
3215 <titleref href='sec-attr-defaults'>default attribute values</titleref>,
3216 where doing so depends on having read declarations in
3217 external or parameter entities.</p></item>
3218 </ulist>
3219 </p>
3220 <p>For maximum reliability in interoperating between different XML
3221 processors, applications which use non-validating processors should not
3222 rely on any behaviors not required of such processors.
3223 Applications which require facilities such as the use of default
3224 attributes or internal entities which are declared in external
3225 entities should use validating XML processors.</p>
3226 </div2>
3227 </div1>
3228
3229 <div1 id='sec-notation'>
3230 <head>Notation</head>
3231
3232 <p>The formal grammar of XML is given in this specification using a simple
3233 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) notation. Each rule in the grammar defines
3234 one symbol, in the form
3235 <eg>symbol ::= expression</eg></p>
3236 <p>Symbols are written with an initial capital letter if they are
3237 defined by a regular expression, or with an initial lower case letter
3238 otherwise.
3239 Literal strings are quoted.
3240
3241 </p>
3242
3243 <p>Within the expression on the right-hand side of a rule, the following
3244 expressions are used to match strings of one or more characters:
3245 <glist>
3246 <gitem>
3247 <label><code>#xN</code></label>
3248 <def><p>where <code>N</code> is a hexadecimal integer, the
3249 expression matches the character in ISO/IEC 10646 whose canonical
3250 (UCS-4)
3251 code value, when interpreted as an unsigned binary number, has
3252 the value indicated. The number of leading zeros in the
3253 <code>#xN</code> form is insignificant; the number of leading
3254 zeros in the corresponding code value
3255 is governed by the character
3256 encoding in use and is not significant for XML.</p></def>
3257 </gitem>
3258 <gitem>
3259 <label><code>[a-zA-Z]</code>, <code>[#xN-#xN]</code></label>
3260 <def><p>matches any <termref def='dt-character'>character</termref>
3261 with a value in the range(s) indicated (inclusive).</p></def>
3262 </gitem>
3263 <gitem>
3264 <label><code>[^a-z]</code>, <code>[^#xN-#xN]</code></label>
3265 <def><p>matches any <termref def='dt-character'>character</termref>
3266 with a value <emph>outside</emph> the
3267 range indicated.</p></def>
3268 </gitem>
3269 <gitem>
3270 <label><code>[^abc]</code>, <code>[^#xN#xN#xN]</code></label>
3271 <def><p>matches any <termref def='dt-character'>character</termref>
3272 with a value not among the characters given.</p></def>
3273 </gitem>
3274 <gitem>
3275 <label><code>"string"</code></label>
3276 <def><p>matches a literal string <termref def="dt-match">matching</termref>
3277 that given inside the double quotes.</p></def>
3278 </gitem>
3279 <gitem>
3280 <label><code>'string'</code></label>
3281 <def><p>matches a literal string <termref def="dt-match">matching</termref>
3282 that given inside the single quotes.</p></def>
3283 </gitem>
3284 </glist>
3285 These symbols may be combined to match more complex patterns as follows,
3286 where <code>A</code> and <code>B</code> represent simple expressions:
3287 <glist>
3288 <gitem>
3289 <label>(<code>expression</code>)</label>
3290 <def><p><code>expression</code> is treated as a unit
3291 and may be combined as described in this list.</p></def>
3292 </gitem>
3293 <gitem>
3294 <label><code>A?</code></label>
3295 <def><p>matches <code>A</code> or nothing; optional <code>A</code>.</p></def>
3296 </gitem>
3297 <gitem>
3298 <label><code>A B</code></label>
3299 <def><p>matches <code>A</code> followed by <code>B</code>.</p></def>
3300 </gitem>
3301 <gitem>
3302 <label><code>A | B</code></label>
3303 <def><p>matches <code>A</code> or <code>B</code> but not both.</p></def>
3304 </gitem>
3305 <gitem>
3306 <label><code>A - B</code></label>
3307 <def><p>matches any string that matches <code>A</code> but does not match
3308 <code>B</code>.
3309 </p></def>
3310 </gitem>
3311 <gitem>
3312 <label><code>A+</code></label>
3313 <def><p>matches one or more occurrences of <code>A</code>.</p></def>
3314 </gitem>
3315 <gitem>
3316 <label><code>A*</code></label>
3317 <def><p>matches zero or more occurrences of <code>A</code>.</p></def>
3318 </gitem>
3319
3320 </glist>
3321 Other notations used in the productions are:
3322 <glist>
3323 <gitem>
3324 <label><code>/* ... */</code></label>
3325 <def><p>comment.</p></def>
3326 </gitem>
3327 <gitem>
3328 <label><code>[ wfc: ... ]</code></label>
3329 <def><p>well-formedness constraint; this identifies by name a
3330 constraint on
3331 <termref def="dt-wellformed">well-formed</termref> documents
3332 associated with a production.</p></def>
3333 </gitem>
3334 <gitem>
3335 <label><code>[ vc: ... ]</code></label>
3336 <def><p>validity constraint; this identifies by name a constraint on
3337 <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> documents associated with
3338 a production.</p></def>
3339 </gitem>
3340 </glist>
3341 </p></div1>
3342
3343 </body>
3344 <back>
3345 <!-- &SGML; -->
3346
3347
3348 <!-- &Biblio; -->
3349 <div1 id='sec-bibliography'>
3350
3351 <head>References</head>
3352 <div2 id='sec-existing-stds'>
3353 <head>Normative References</head>
3354
3355 <blist>
3356 <bibl id='IANA' key='IANA'>
3357 (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) <emph>Official Names for
3358 Character Sets</emph>,
3359 ed. Keld Simonsen et al.
3360 See <loc href='ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets'>ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets</loc>.
3361 </bibl>
3362
3363 <bibl id='RFC1766' key='IETF RFC 1766'>
3364 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
3365 <emph>RFC 1766: Tags for the Identification of Languages</emph>,
3366 ed. H. Alvestrand.
3367 1995.
3368 </bibl>
3369
3370 <bibl id='ISO639' key='ISO 639'>
3371 (International Organization for Standardization).
3372 <emph>ISO 639:1988 (E).
3373 Code for the representation of names of languages.</emph>
3374 [Geneva]: International Organization for
3375 Standardization, 1988.</bibl>
3376
3377 <bibl id='ISO3166' key='ISO 3166'>
3378 (International Organization for Standardization).
3379 <emph>ISO 3166-1:1997 (E).
3380 Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions
3381 &mdash; Part 1: Country codes</emph>
3382 [Geneva]: International Organization for
3383 Standardization, 1997.</bibl>
3384
3385 <bibl id='ISO10646' key='ISO/IEC 10646'>ISO
3386 (International Organization for Standardization).
3387 <emph>ISO/IEC 10646-1993 (E). Information technology &mdash; Universal
3388 Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS) &mdash; Part 1:
3389 Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane.</emph>
3390 [Geneva]: International Organization for
3391 Standardization, 1993 (plus amendments AM 1 through AM 7).
3392 </bibl>
3393
3394 <bibl id='Unicode' key='Unicode'>The Unicode Consortium.
3395 <emph>The Unicode Standard, Version 2.0.</emph>
3396 Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Developers Press, 1996.</bibl>
3397
3398 </blist>
3399
3400 </div2>
3401
3402 <div2><head>Other References</head>
3403
3404 <blist>
3405
3406 <bibl id='Aho' key='Aho/Ullman'>Aho, Alfred V.,
3407 Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey D. Ullman.
3408 <emph>Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools</emph>.
3409 Reading: Addison-Wesley, 1986, rpt. corr. 1988.</bibl>
3410
3411 <bibl id="Berners-Lee" xml-link="simple" key="Berners-Lee et al.">
3412 Berners-Lee, T., R. Fielding, and L. Masinter.
3413 <emph>Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax and
3414 Semantics</emph>.
3415 1997.
3416 (Work in progress; see updates to RFC1738.)</bibl>
3417
3418 <bibl id='ABK' key='Brüggemann-Klein'>Brüggemann-Klein, Anne.
3419 <emph>Regular Expressions into Finite Automata</emph>.
3420 Extended abstract in I. Simon, Hrsg., LATIN 1992,
3421 S. 97-98. Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1992.
3422 Full Version in Theoretical Computer Science 120: 197-213, 1993.
3423
3424 </bibl>
3425
3426 <bibl id='ABKDW' key='Brüggemann-Klein and Wood'>Brüggemann-Klein, Anne,
3427 and Derick Wood.
3428 <emph>Deterministic Regular Languages</emph>.
3429 Universität Freiburg, Institut für Informatik,
3430 Bericht 38, Oktober 1991.
3431 </bibl>
3432
3433 <bibl id='Clark' key='Clark'>James Clark.
3434 Comparison of SGML and XML. See
3435 <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215'>http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-sgml-xml-971215</loc>.
3436 </bibl>
3437 <bibl id="RFC1738" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC1738">
3438 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
3439 <emph>RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)</emph>,
3440 ed. T. Berners-Lee, L. Masinter, M. McCahill.
3441 1994.
3442 </bibl>
3443
3444 <bibl id="RFC1808" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC1808">
3445 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
3446 <emph>RFC 1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators</emph>,
3447 ed. R. Fielding.
3448 1995.
3449 </bibl>
3450
3451 <bibl id="RFC2141" xml-link="simple" key="IETF RFC2141">
3452 IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force).
3453 <emph>RFC 2141: URN Syntax</emph>,
3454 ed. R. Moats.
3455 1997.
3456 </bibl>
3457
3458 <bibl id='ISO8879' key='ISO 8879'>ISO
3459 (International Organization for Standardization).
3460 <emph>ISO 8879:1986(E). Information processing &mdash; Text and Office
3461 Systems &mdash; Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).</emph> First
3462 edition &mdash; 1986-10-15. [Geneva]: International Organization for
3463 Standardization, 1986.
3464 </bibl>
3465
3466
3467 <bibl id='ISO10744' key='ISO/IEC 10744'>ISO
3468 (International Organization for Standardization).
3469 <emph>ISO/IEC 10744-1992 (E). Information technology &mdash;
3470 Hypermedia/Time-based Structuring Language (HyTime).
3471 </emph>
3472 [Geneva]: International Organization for
3473 Standardization, 1992.
3474 <emph>Extended Facilities Annexe.</emph>
3475 [Geneva]: International Organization for
3476 Standardization, 1996.
3477 </bibl>
3478
3479
3480
3481 </blist>
3482 </div2>
3483 </div1>
3484 <div1 id='CharClasses'>
3485 <head>Character Classes</head>
3486 <p>Following the characteristics defined in the Unicode standard,
3487 characters are classed as base characters (among others, these
3488 contain the alphabetic characters of the Latin alphabet, without
3489 diacritics), ideographic characters, and combining characters (among
3490 others, this class contains most diacritics); these classes combine
3491 to form the class of letters. Digits and extenders are
3492 also distinguished.
3493 <scrap lang="ebnf" id="CHARACTERS">
3494 <head>Characters</head>
3495 <prodgroup pcw3="3" pcw4="15">
3496 <prod id="NT-Letter"><lhs>Letter</lhs>
3497 <rhs><nt def="NT-BaseChar">BaseChar</nt>
3498 | <nt def="NT-Ideographic">Ideographic</nt></rhs> </prod>
3499 <prod id='NT-BaseChar'><lhs>BaseChar</lhs>
3500 <rhs>[#x0041-#x005A]
3501 |&nbsp;[#x0061-#x007A]
3502 |&nbsp;[#x00C0-#x00D6]
3503 |&nbsp;[#x00D8-#x00F6]
3504 |&nbsp;[#x00F8-#x00FF]
3505 |&nbsp;[#x0100-#x0131]
3506 |&nbsp;[#x0134-#x013E]
3507 |&nbsp;[#x0141-#x0148]
3508 |&nbsp;[#x014A-#x017E]
3509 |&nbsp;[#x0180-#x01C3]
3510 |&nbsp;[#x01CD-#x01F0]
3511 |&nbsp;[#x01F4-#x01F5]
3512 |&nbsp;[#x01FA-#x0217]
3513 |&nbsp;[#x0250-#x02A8]
3514 |&nbsp;[#x02BB-#x02C1]
3515 |&nbsp;#x0386
3516 |&nbsp;[#x0388-#x038A]
3517 |&nbsp;#x038C
3518 |&nbsp;[#x038E-#x03A1]
3519 |&nbsp;[#x03A3-#x03CE]
3520 |&nbsp;[#x03D0-#x03D6]
3521 |&nbsp;#x03DA
3522 |&nbsp;#x03DC
3523 |&nbsp;#x03DE
3524 |&nbsp;#x03E0
3525 |&nbsp;[#x03E2-#x03F3]
3526 |&nbsp;[#x0401-#x040C]
3527 |&nbsp;[#x040E-#x044F]
3528 |&nbsp;[#x0451-#x045C]
3529 |&nbsp;[#x045E-#x0481]
3530 |&nbsp;[#x0490-#x04C4]
3531 |&nbsp;[#x04C7-#x04C8]
3532 |&nbsp;[#x04CB-#x04CC]
3533 |&nbsp;[#x04D0-#x04EB]
3534 |&nbsp;[#x04EE-#x04F5]
3535 |&nbsp;[#x04F8-#x04F9]
3536 |&nbsp;[#x0531-#x0556]
3537 |&nbsp;#x0559
3538 |&nbsp;[#x0561-#x0586]
3539 |&nbsp;[#x05D0-#x05EA]
3540 |&nbsp;[#x05F0-#x05F2]
3541 |&nbsp;[#x0621-#x063A]
3542 |&nbsp;[#x0641-#x064A]
3543 |&nbsp;[#x0671-#x06B7]
3544 |&nbsp;[#x06BA-#x06BE]
3545 |&nbsp;[#x06C0-#x06CE]
3546 |&nbsp;[#x06D0-#x06D3]
3547 |&nbsp;#x06D5
3548 |&nbsp;[#x06E5-#x06E6]
3549 |&nbsp;[#x0905-#x0939]
3550 |&nbsp;#x093D
3551 |&nbsp;[#x0958-#x0961]
3552 |&nbsp;[#x0985-#x098C]
3553 |&nbsp;[#x098F-#x0990]
3554 |&nbsp;[#x0993-#x09A8]
3555 |&nbsp;[#x09AA-#x09B0]
3556 |&nbsp;#x09B2
3557 |&nbsp;[#x09B6-#x09B9]
3558 |&nbsp;[#x09DC-#x09DD]
3559 |&nbsp;[#x09DF-#x09E1]
3560 |&nbsp;[#x09F0-#x09F1]
3561 |&nbsp;[#x0A05-#x0A0A]
3562 |&nbsp;[#x0A0F-#x0A10]
3563 |&nbsp;[#x0A13-#x0A28]
3564 |&nbsp;[#x0A2A-#x0A30]
3565 |&nbsp;[#x0A32-#x0A33]
3566 |&nbsp;[#x0A35-#x0A36]
3567 |&nbsp;[#x0A38-#x0A39]
3568 |&nbsp;[#x0A59-#x0A5C]
3569 |&nbsp;#x0A5E
3570 |&nbsp;[#x0A72-#x0A74]
3571 |&nbsp;[#x0A85-#x0A8B]
3572 |&nbsp;#x0A8D
3573 |&nbsp;[#x0A8F-#x0A91]
3574 |&nbsp;[#x0A93-#x0AA8]
3575 |&nbsp;[#x0AAA-#x0AB0]
3576 |&nbsp;[#x0AB2-#x0AB3]
3577 |&nbsp;[#x0AB5-#x0AB9]
3578 |&nbsp;#x0ABD
3579 |&nbsp;#x0AE0
3580 |&nbsp;[#x0B05-#x0B0C]
3581 |&nbsp;[#x0B0F-#x0B10]
3582 |&nbsp;[#x0B13-#x0B28]
3583 |&nbsp;[#x0B2A-#x0B30]
3584 |&nbsp;[#x0B32-#x0B33]
3585 |&nbsp;[#x0B36-#x0B39]
3586 |&nbsp;#x0B3D
3587 |&nbsp;[#x0B5C-#x0B5D]
3588 |&nbsp;[#x0B5F-#x0B61]
3589 |&nbsp;[#x0B85-#x0B8A]
3590 |&nbsp;[#x0B8E-#x0B90]
3591 |&nbsp;[#x0B92-#x0B95]
3592 |&nbsp;[#x0B99-#x0B9A]
3593 |&nbsp;#x0B9C
3594 |&nbsp;[#x0B9E-#x0B9F]
3595 |&nbsp;[#x0BA3-#x0BA4]
3596 |&nbsp;[#x0BA8-#x0BAA]
3597 |&nbsp;[#x0BAE-#x0BB5]
3598 |&nbsp;[#x0BB7-#x0BB9]
3599 |&nbsp;[#x0C05-#x0C0C]
3600 |&nbsp;[#x0C0E-#x0C10]
3601 |&nbsp;[#x0C12-#x0C28]
3602 |&nbsp;[#x0C2A-#x0C33]
3603 |&nbsp;[#x0C35-#x0C39]
3604 |&nbsp;[#x0C60-#x0C61]
3605 |&nbsp;[#x0C85-#x0C8C]
3606 |&nbsp;[#x0C8E-#x0C90]
3607 |&nbsp;[#x0C92-#x0CA8]
3608 |&nbsp;[#x0CAA-#x0CB3]
3609 |&nbsp;[#x0CB5-#x0CB9]
3610 |&nbsp;#x0CDE
3611 |&nbsp;[#x0CE0-#x0CE1]
3612 |&nbsp;[#x0D05-#x0D0C]
3613 |&nbsp;[#x0D0E-#x0D10]
3614 |&nbsp;[#x0D12-#x0D28]
3615 |&nbsp;[#x0D2A-#x0D39]
3616 |&nbsp;[#x0D60-#x0D61]
3617 |&nbsp;[#x0E01-#x0E2E]
3618 |&nbsp;#x0E30
3619 |&nbsp;[#x0E32-#x0E33]
3620 |&nbsp;[#x0E40-#x0E45]
3621 |&nbsp;[#x0E81-#x0E82]
3622 |&nbsp;#x0E84
3623 |&nbsp;[#x0E87-#x0E88]
3624 |&nbsp;#x0E8A
3625 |&nbsp;#x0E8D
3626 |&nbsp;[#x0E94-#x0E97]
3627 |&nbsp;[#x0E99-#x0E9F]
3628 |&nbsp;[#x0EA1-#x0EA3]
3629 |&nbsp;#x0EA5
3630 |&nbsp;#x0EA7
3631 |&nbsp;[#x0EAA-#x0EAB]
3632 |&nbsp;[#x0EAD-#x0EAE]
3633 |&nbsp;#x0EB0
3634 |&nbsp;[#x0EB2-#x0EB3]
3635 |&nbsp;#x0EBD
3636 |&nbsp;[#x0EC0-#x0EC4]
3637 |&nbsp;[#x0F40-#x0F47]
3638 |&nbsp;[#x0F49-#x0F69]
3639 |&nbsp;[#x10A0-#x10C5]
3640 |&nbsp;[#x10D0-#x10F6]
3641 |&nbsp;#x1100
3642 |&nbsp;[#x1102-#x1103]
3643 |&nbsp;[#x1105-#x1107]
3644 |&nbsp;#x1109
3645 |&nbsp;[#x110B-#x110C]
3646 |&nbsp;[#x110E-#x1112]
3647 |&nbsp;#x113C
3648 |&nbsp;#x113E
3649 |&nbsp;#x1140
3650 |&nbsp;#x114C
3651 |&nbsp;#x114E
3652 |&nbsp;#x1150
3653 |&nbsp;[#x1154-#x1155]
3654 |&nbsp;#x1159
3655 |&nbsp;[#x115F-#x1161]
3656 |&nbsp;#x1163
3657 |&nbsp;#x1165
3658 |&nbsp;#x1167
3659 |&nbsp;#x1169
3660 |&nbsp;[#x116D-#x116E]
3661 |&nbsp;[#x1172-#x1173]
3662 |&nbsp;#x1175
3663 |&nbsp;#x119E
3664 |&nbsp;#x11A8
3665 |&nbsp;#x11AB
3666 |&nbsp;[#x11AE-#x11AF]
3667 |&nbsp;[#x11B7-#x11B8]
3668 |&nbsp;#x11BA
3669 |&nbsp;[#x11BC-#x11C2]
3670 |&nbsp;#x11EB
3671 |&nbsp;#x11F0
3672 |&nbsp;#x11F9
3673 |&nbsp;[#x1E00-#x1E9B]
3674 |&nbsp;[#x1EA0-#x1EF9]
3675 |&nbsp;[#x1F00-#x1F15]
3676 |&nbsp;[#x1F18-#x1F1D]
3677 |&nbsp;[#x1F20-#x1F45]
3678 |&nbsp;[#x1F48-#x1F4D]
3679 |&nbsp;[#x1F50-#x1F57]
3680 |&nbsp;#x1F59
3681 |&nbsp;#x1F5B
3682 |&nbsp;#x1F5D
3683 |&nbsp;[#x1F5F-#x1F7D]
3684 |&nbsp;[#x1F80-#x1FB4]
3685 |&nbsp;[#x1FB6-#x1FBC]
3686 |&nbsp;#x1FBE
3687 |&nbsp;[#x1FC2-#x1FC4]
3688 |&nbsp;[#x1FC6-#x1FCC]
3689 |&nbsp;[#x1FD0-#x1FD3]
3690 |&nbsp;[#x1FD6-#x1FDB]
3691 |&nbsp;[#x1FE0-#x1FEC]
3692 |&nbsp;[#x1FF2-#x1FF4]
3693 |&nbsp;[#x1FF6-#x1FFC]
3694 |&nbsp;#x2126
3695 |&nbsp;[#x212A-#x212B]
3696 |&nbsp;#x212E
3697 |&nbsp;[#x2180-#x2182]
3698 |&nbsp;[#x3041-#x3094]
3699 |&nbsp;[#x30A1-#x30FA]
3700 |&nbsp;[#x3105-#x312C]
3701 |&nbsp;[#xAC00-#xD7A3]
3702 </rhs></prod>
3703 <prod id='NT-Ideographic'><lhs>Ideographic</lhs>
3704 <rhs>[#x4E00-#x9FA5]
3705 |&nbsp;#x3007
3706 |&nbsp;[#x3021-#x3029]
3707 </rhs></prod>
3708 <prod id='NT-CombiningChar'><lhs>CombiningChar</lhs>
3709 <rhs>[#x0300-#x0345]
3710 |&nbsp;[#x0360-#x0361]
3711 |&nbsp;[#x0483-#x0486]
3712 |&nbsp;[#x0591-#x05A1]
3713 |&nbsp;[#x05A3-#x05B9]
3714 |&nbsp;[#x05BB-#x05BD]
3715 |&nbsp;#x05BF
3716 |&nbsp;[#x05C1-#x05C2]
3717 |&nbsp;#x05C4
3718 |&nbsp;[#x064B-#x0652]
3719 |&nbsp;#x0670
3720 |&nbsp;[#x06D6-#x06DC]
3721 |&nbsp;[#x06DD-#x06DF]
3722 |&nbsp;[#x06E0-#x06E4]
3723 |&nbsp;[#x06E7-#x06E8]
3724 |&nbsp;[#x06EA-#x06ED]
3725 |&nbsp;[#x0901-#x0903]
3726 |&nbsp;#x093C
3727 |&nbsp;[#x093E-#x094C]
3728 |&nbsp;#x094D
3729 |&nbsp;[#x0951-#x0954]
3730 |&nbsp;[#x0962-#x0963]
3731 |&nbsp;[#x0981-#x0983]
3732 |&nbsp;#x09BC
3733 |&nbsp;#x09BE
3734 |&nbsp;#x09BF
3735 |&nbsp;[#x09C0-#x09C4]
3736 |&nbsp;[#x09C7-#x09C8]
3737 |&nbsp;[#x09CB-#x09CD]
3738 |&nbsp;#x09D7
3739 |&nbsp;[#x09E2-#x09E3]
3740 |&nbsp;#x0A02
3741 |&nbsp;#x0A3C
3742 |&nbsp;#x0A3E
3743 |&nbsp;#x0A3F
3744 |&nbsp;[#x0A40-#x0A42]
3745 |&nbsp;[#x0A47-#x0A48]
3746 |&nbsp;[#x0A4B-#x0A4D]
3747 |&nbsp;[#x0A70-#x0A71]
3748 |&nbsp;[#x0A81-#x0A83]
3749 |&nbsp;#x0ABC
3750 |&nbsp;[#x0ABE-#x0AC5]
3751 |&nbsp;[#x0AC7-#x0AC9]
3752 |&nbsp;[#x0ACB-#x0ACD]
3753 |&nbsp;[#x0B01-#x0B03]
3754 |&nbsp;#x0B3C
3755 |&nbsp;[#x0B3E-#x0B43]
3756 |&nbsp;[#x0B47-#x0B48]
3757 |&nbsp;[#x0B4B-#x0B4D]
3758 |&nbsp;[#x0B56-#x0B57]
3759 |&nbsp;[#x0B82-#x0B83]
3760 |&nbsp;[#x0BBE-#x0BC2]
3761 |&nbsp;[#x0BC6-#x0BC8]
3762 |&nbsp;[#x0BCA-#x0BCD]
3763 |&nbsp;#x0BD7
3764 |&nbsp;[#x0C01-#x0C03]
3765 |&nbsp;[#x0C3E-#x0C44]
3766 |&nbsp;[#x0C46-#x0C48]
3767 |&nbsp;[#x0C4A-#x0C4D]
3768 |&nbsp;[#x0C55-#x0C56]
3769 |&nbsp;[#x0C82-#x0C83]
3770 |&nbsp;[#x0CBE-#x0CC4]
3771 |&nbsp;[#x0CC6-#x0CC8]
3772 |&nbsp;[#x0CCA-#x0CCD]
3773 |&nbsp;[#x0CD5-#x0CD6]
3774 |&nbsp;[#x0D02-#x0D03]
3775 |&nbsp;[#x0D3E-#x0D43]
3776 |&nbsp;[#x0D46-#x0D48]
3777 |&nbsp;[#x0D4A-#x0D4D]
3778 |&nbsp;#x0D57
3779 |&nbsp;#x0E31
3780 |&nbsp;[#x0E34-#x0E3A]
3781 |&nbsp;[#x0E47-#x0E4E]
3782 |&nbsp;#x0EB1
3783 |&nbsp;[#x0EB4-#x0EB9]
3784 |&nbsp;[#x0EBB-#x0EBC]
3785 |&nbsp;[#x0EC8-#x0ECD]
3786 |&nbsp;[#x0F18-#x0F19]
3787 |&nbsp;#x0F35
3788 |&nbsp;#x0F37
3789 |&nbsp;#x0F39
3790 |&nbsp;#x0F3E
3791 |&nbsp;#x0F3F
3792 |&nbsp;[#x0F71-#x0F84]
3793 |&nbsp;[#x0F86-#x0F8B]
3794 |&nbsp;[#x0F90-#x0F95]
3795 |&nbsp;#x0F97
3796 |&nbsp;[#x0F99-#x0FAD]
3797 |&nbsp;[#x0FB1-#x0FB7]
3798 |&nbsp;#x0FB9
3799 |&nbsp;[#x20D0-#x20DC]
3800 |&nbsp;#x20E1
3801 |&nbsp;[#x302A-#x302F]
3802 |&nbsp;#x3099
3803 |&nbsp;#x309A
3804 </rhs></prod>
3805 <prod id='NT-Digit'><lhs>Digit</lhs>
3806 <rhs>[#x0030-#x0039]
3807 |&nbsp;[#x0660-#x0669]
3808 |&nbsp;[#x06F0-#x06F9]
3809 |&nbsp;[#x0966-#x096F]
3810 |&nbsp;[#x09E6-#x09EF]
3811 |&nbsp;[#x0A66-#x0A6F]
3812 |&nbsp;[#x0AE6-#x0AEF]
3813 |&nbsp;[#x0B66-#x0B6F]
3814 |&nbsp;[#x0BE7-#x0BEF]
3815 |&nbsp;[#x0C66-#x0C6F]
3816 |&nbsp;[#x0CE6-#x0CEF]
3817 |&nbsp;[#x0D66-#x0D6F]
3818 |&nbsp;[#x0E50-#x0E59]
3819 |&nbsp;[#x0ED0-#x0ED9]
3820 |&nbsp;[#x0F20-#x0F29]
3821 </rhs></prod>
3822 <prod id='NT-Extender'><lhs>Extender</lhs>
3823 <rhs>#x00B7
3824 |&nbsp;#x02D0
3825 |&nbsp;#x02D1
3826 |&nbsp;#x0387
3827 |&nbsp;#x0640
3828 |&nbsp;#x0E46
3829 |&nbsp;#x0EC6
3830 |&nbsp;#x3005
3831 |&nbsp;[#x3031-#x3035]
3832 |&nbsp;[#x309D-#x309E]
3833 |&nbsp;[#x30FC-#x30FE]
3834 </rhs></prod>
3835
3836 </prodgroup>
3837 </scrap>
3838 </p>
3839 <p>The character classes defined here can be derived from the
3840 Unicode character database as follows:
3841 <ulist>
3842 <item>
3843 <p>Name start characters must have one of the categories Ll, Lu,
3844 Lo, Lt, Nl.</p>
3845 </item>
3846 <item>
3847 <p>Name characters other than Name-start characters
3848 must have one of the categories Mc, Me, Mn, Lm, or Nd.</p>
3849 </item>
3850 <item>
3851 <p>Characters in the compatibility area (i.e. with character code
3852 greater than #xF900 and less than #xFFFE) are not allowed in XML
3853 names.</p>
3854 </item>
3855 <item>
3856 <p>Characters which have a font or compatibility decomposition (i.e. those
3857 with a "compatibility formatting tag" in field 5 of the database --
3858 marked by field 5 beginning with a "&lt;") are not allowed.</p>
3859 </item>
3860 <item>
3861 <p>The following characters are treated as name-start characters
3862 rather than name characters, because the property file classifies
3863 them as Alphabetic: [#x02BB-#x02C1], #x0559, #x06E5, #x06E6.</p>
3864 </item>
3865 <item>
3866 <p>Characters #x20DD-#x20E0 are excluded (in accordance with
3867 Unicode, section 5.14).</p>
3868 </item>
3869 <item>
3870 <p>Character #x00B7 is classified as an extender, because the
3871 property list so identifies it.</p>
3872 </item>
3873 <item>
3874 <p>Character #x0387 is added as a name character, because #x00B7
3875 is its canonical equivalent.</p>
3876 </item>
3877 <item>
3878 <p>Characters ':' and '_' are allowed as name-start characters.</p>
3879 </item>
3880 <item>
3881 <p>Characters '-' and '.' are allowed as name characters.</p>
3882 </item>
3883 </ulist>
3884 </p>
3885 </div1>
3886 <inform-div1 id="sec-xml-and-sgml">
3887 <head>XML and SGML</head>
3888
3889 <p>XML is designed to be a subset of SGML, in that every
3890 <termref def="dt-valid">valid</termref> XML document should also be a
3891 conformant SGML document.
3892 For a detailed comparison of the additional restrictions that XML places on
3893 documents beyond those of SGML, see <bibref ref='Clark'/>.
3894 </p>
3895 </inform-div1>
3896 <inform-div1 id="sec-entexpand">
3897 <head>Expansion of Entity and Character References</head>
3898 <p>This appendix contains some examples illustrating the
3899 sequence of entity- and character-reference recognition and
3900 expansion, as specified in <specref ref='entproc'/>.</p>
3901 <p>
3902 If the DTD contains the declaration
3903 <eg><![CDATA[<!ENTITY example "<p>An ampersand (&#38;#38;) may be escaped
3904 numerically (&#38;#38;#38;) or with a general entity
3905 (&amp;amp;).</p>" >
3906 ]]></eg>
3907 then the XML processor will recognize the character references
3908 when it parses the entity declaration, and resolve them before
3909 storing the following string as the
3910 value of the entity "<code>example</code>":
3911 <eg><![CDATA[<p>An ampersand (&#38;) may be escaped
3912 numerically (&#38;#38;) or with a general entity
3913 (&amp;amp;).</p>
3914 ]]></eg>
3915 A reference in the document to "<code>&amp;example;</code>"
3916 will cause the text to be reparsed, at which time the
3917 start- and end-tags of the "<code>p</code>" element will be recognized
3918 and the three references will be recognized and expanded,
3919 resulting in a "<code>p</code>" element with the following content
3920 (all data, no delimiters or markup):
3921 <eg><![CDATA[An ampersand (&) may be escaped
3922 numerically (&#38;) or with a general entity
3923 (&amp;).
3924 ]]></eg>
3925 </p>
3926 <p>A more complex example will illustrate the rules and their
3927 effects fully. In the following example, the line numbers are
3928 solely for reference.
3929 <eg><![CDATA[1 <?xml version='1.0'?>
3930 2 <!DOCTYPE test [
3931 3 <!ELEMENT test (#PCDATA) >
3932 4 <!ENTITY % xx '&#37;zz;'>
3933 5 <!ENTITY % zz '&#60;!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" >' >
3934 6 %xx;
3935 7 ]>
3936 8 <test>This sample shows a &tricky; method.</test>
3937 ]]></eg>
3938 This produces the following:
3939 <ulist spacing="compact">
3940 <item><p>in line 4, the reference to character 37 is expanded immediately,
3941 and the parameter entity "<code>xx</code>" is stored in the symbol
3942 table with the value "<code>%zz;</code>". Since the replacement text
3943 is not rescanned, the reference to parameter entity "<code>zz</code>"
3944 is not recognized. (And it would be an error if it were, since
3945 "<code>zz</code>" is not yet declared.)</p></item>
3946 <item><p>in line 5, the character reference "<code>&amp;#60;</code>" is
3947 expanded immediately and the parameter entity "<code>zz</code>" is
3948 stored with the replacement text
3949 "<code>&lt;!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" ></code>",
3950 which is a well-formed entity declaration.</p></item>
3951 <item><p>in line 6, the reference to "<code>xx</code>" is recognized,
3952 and the replacement text of "<code>xx</code>" (namely
3953 "<code>%zz;</code>") is parsed. The reference to "<code>zz</code>"
3954 is recognized in its turn, and its replacement text
3955 ("<code>&lt;!ENTITY tricky "error-prone" ></code>") is parsed.
3956 The general entity "<code>tricky</code>" has now been
3957 declared, with the replacement text "<code>error-prone</code>".</p></item>
3958 <item><p>
3959 in line 8, the reference to the general entity "<code>tricky</code>" is
3960 recognized, and it is expanded, so the full content of the
3961 "<code>test</code>" element is the self-describing (and ungrammatical) string
3962 <emph>This sample shows a error-prone method.</emph>
3963 </p></item>
3964 </ulist>
3965 </p>
3966 </inform-div1>
3967 <inform-div1 id="determinism">
3968 <head>Deterministic Content Models</head>
3969 <p><termref def='dt-compat'>For compatibility</termref>, it is
3970 required
3971 that content models in element type declarations be deterministic.
3972 </p>
3973 <!-- FINAL EDIT: WebSGML allows ambiguity? -->
3974 <p>SGML
3975 requires deterministic content models (it calls them
3976 "unambiguous"); XML processors built using SGML systems may
3977 flag non-deterministic content models as errors.</p>
3978 <p>For example, the content model <code>((b, c) | (b, d))</code> is
3979 non-deterministic, because given an initial <code>b</code> the parser
3980 cannot know which <code>b</code> in the model is being matched without
3981 looking ahead to see which element follows the <code>b</code>.
3982 In this case, the two references to
3983 <code>b</code> can be collapsed
3984 into a single reference, making the model read
3985 <code>(b, (c | d))</code>. An initial <code>b</code> now clearly
3986 matches only a single name in the content model. The parser doesn't
3987 need to look ahead to see what follows; either <code>c</code> or
3988 <code>d</code> would be accepted.</p>
3989 <p>More formally: a finite state automaton may be constructed from the
3990 content model using the standard algorithms, e.g. algorithm 3.5
3991 in section 3.9
3992 of Aho, Sethi, and Ullman <bibref ref='Aho'/>.
3993 In many such algorithms, a follow set is constructed for each
3994 position in the regular expression (i.e., each leaf
3995 node in the
3996 syntax tree for the regular expression);
3997 if any position has a follow set in which
3998 more than one following position is
3999 labeled with the same element type name,
4000 then the content model is in error
4001 and may be reported as an error.
4002 </p>
4003 <p>Algorithms exist which allow many but not all non-deterministic
4004 content models to be reduced automatically to equivalent deterministic
4005 models; see Brüggemann-Klein 1991 <bibref ref='ABK'/>.</p>
4006 </inform-div1>
4007 <inform-div1 id="sec-guessing">
4008 <head>Autodetection of Character Encodings</head>
4009 <p>The XML encoding declaration functions as an internal label on each
4010 entity, indicating which character encoding is in use. Before an XML
4011 processor can read the internal label, however, it apparently has to
4012 know what character encoding is in use&mdash;which is what the internal label
4013 is trying to indicate. In the general case, this is a hopeless
4014 situation. It is not entirely hopeless in XML, however, because XML
4015 limits the general case in two ways: each implementation is assumed
4016 to support only a finite set of character encodings, and the XML
4017 encoding declaration is restricted in position and content in order to
4018 make it feasible to autodetect the character encoding in use in each
4019 entity in normal cases. Also, in many cases other sources of information
4020 are available in addition to the XML data stream itself.
4021 Two cases may be distinguished,
4022 depending on whether the XML entity is presented to the
4023 processor without, or with, any accompanying
4024 (external) information. We consider the first case first.
4025 </p>
4026 <p>
4027 Because each XML entity not in UTF-8 or UTF-16 format <emph>must</emph>
4028 begin with an XML encoding declaration, in which the first characters
4029 must be '<code>&lt;?xml</code>', any conforming processor can detect,
4030 after two to four octets of input, which of the following cases apply.
4031 In reading this list, it may help to know that in UCS-4, '&lt;' is
4032 "<code>#x0000003C</code>" and '?' is "<code>#x0000003F</code>", and the Byte
4033 Order Mark required of UTF-16 data streams is "<code>#xFEFF</code>".</p>
4034 <p>
4035 <ulist>
4036 <item>
4037 <p><code>00 00 00 3C</code>: UCS-4, big-endian machine (1234 order)</p>
4038 </item>
4039 <item>
4040 <p><code>3C 00 00 00</code>: UCS-4, little-endian machine (4321 order)</p>
4041 </item>
4042 <item>
4043 <p><code>00 00 3C 00</code>: UCS-4, unusual octet order (2143)</p>
4044 </item>
4045 <item>
4046 <p><code>00 3C 00 00</code>: UCS-4, unusual octet order (3412)</p>
4047 </item>
4048 <item>
4049 <p><code>FE FF</code>: UTF-16, big-endian</p>
4050 </item>
4051 <item>
4052 <p><code>FF FE</code>: UTF-16, little-endian</p>
4053 </item>
4054 <item>
4055 <p><code>00 3C 00 3F</code>: UTF-16, big-endian, no Byte Order Mark
4056 (and thus, strictly speaking, in error)</p>
4057 </item>
4058 <item>
4059 <p><code>3C 00 3F 00</code>: UTF-16, little-endian, no Byte Order Mark
4060 (and thus, strictly speaking, in error)</p>
4061 </item>
4062 <item>
4063 <p><code>3C 3F 78 6D</code>: UTF-8, ISO 646, ASCII, some part of ISO 8859,
4064 Shift-JIS, EUC, or any other 7-bit, 8-bit, or mixed-width encoding
4065 which ensures that the characters of ASCII have their normal positions,
4066 width,
4067 and values; the actual encoding declaration must be read to
4068 detect which of these applies, but since all of these encodings
4069 use the same bit patterns for the ASCII characters, the encoding
4070 declaration itself may be read reliably
4071 </p>
4072 </item>
4073 <item>
4074 <p><code>4C 6F A7 94</code>: EBCDIC (in some flavor; the full
4075 encoding declaration must be read to tell which code page is in
4076 use)</p>
4077 </item>
4078 <item>
4079 <p>other: UTF-8 without an encoding declaration, or else
4080 the data stream is corrupt, fragmentary, or enclosed in
4081 a wrapper of some kind</p>
4082 </item>
4083 </ulist>
4084 </p>
4085 <p>
4086 This level of autodetection is enough to read the XML encoding
4087 declaration and parse the character-encoding identifier, which is
4088 still necessary to distinguish the individual members of each family
4089 of encodings (e.g. to tell UTF-8 from 8859, and the parts of 8859
4090 from each other, or to distinguish the specific EBCDIC code page in
4091 use, and so on).
4092 </p>
4093 <p>
4094 Because the contents of the encoding declaration are restricted to
4095 ASCII characters, a processor can reliably read the entire encoding
4096 declaration as soon as it has detected which family of encodings is in
4097 use. Since in practice, all widely used character encodings fall into
4098 one of the categories above, the XML encoding declaration allows
4099 reasonably reliable in-band labeling of character encodings, even when
4100 external sources of information at the operating-system or
4101 transport-protocol level are unreliable.
4102 </p>
4103 <p>
4104 Once the processor has detected the character encoding in use, it can
4105 act appropriately, whether by invoking a separate input routine for
4106 each case, or by calling the proper conversion function on each
4107 character of input.
4108 </p>
4109 <p>
4110 Like any self-labeling system, the XML encoding declaration will not
4111 work if any software changes the entity's character set or encoding
4112 without updating the encoding declaration. Implementors of
4113 character-encoding routines should be careful to ensure the accuracy
4114 of the internal and external information used to label the entity.
4115 </p>
4116 <p>The second possible case occurs when the XML entity is accompanied
4117 by encoding information, as in some file systems and some network
4118 protocols.
4119 When multiple sources of information are available,
4120
4121 their relative
4122 priority and the preferred method of handling conflict should be
4123 specified as part of the higher-level protocol used to deliver XML.
4124 Rules for the relative priority of the internal label and the
4125 MIME-type label in an external header, for example, should be part of the
4126 RFC document defining the text/xml and application/xml MIME types. In
4127 the interests of interoperability, however, the following rules
4128 are recommended.
4129 <ulist>
4130 <item><p>If an XML entity is in a file, the Byte-Order Mark
4131 and encoding-declaration PI are used (if present) to determine the
4132 character encoding. All other heuristics and sources of information
4133 are solely for error recovery.
4134 </p></item>
4135 <item><p>If an XML entity is delivered with a
4136 MIME type of text/xml, then the <code>charset</code> parameter
4137 on the MIME type determines the
4138 character encoding method; all other heuristics and sources of
4139 information are solely for error recovery.
4140 </p></item>
4141 <item><p>If an XML entity is delivered
4142 with a
4143 MIME type of application/xml, then the Byte-Order Mark and
4144 encoding-declaration PI are used (if present) to determine the
4145 character encoding. All other heuristics and sources of
4146 information are solely for error recovery.
4147 </p></item>
4148 </ulist>
4149 These rules apply only in the absence of protocol-level documentation;
4150 in particular, when the MIME types text/xml and application/xml are
4151 defined, the recommendations of the relevant RFC will supersede
4152 these rules.
4153 </p>
4154
4155 </inform-div1>
4156
4157 <inform-div1 id="sec-xml-wg">
4158 <head>W3C XML Working Group</head>
4159
4160 <p>This specification was prepared and approved for publication by the
4161 W3C XML Working Group (WG). WG approval of this specification does
4162 not necessarily imply that all WG members voted for its approval.
4163 The current and former members of the XML WG are:</p>
4164
4165 <orglist>
4166 <member><name>Jon Bosak, Sun</name><role>Chair</role></member>
4167 <member><name>James Clark</name><role>Technical Lead</role></member>
4168 <member><name>Tim Bray, Textuality and Netscape</name><role>XML Co-editor</role></member>
4169 <member><name>Jean Paoli, Microsoft</name><role>XML Co-editor</role></member>
4170 <member><name>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, U. of Ill.</name><role>XML
4171 Co-editor</role></member>
4172 <member><name>Dan Connolly, W3C</name><role>W3C Liaison</role></member>
4173 <member><name>Paula Angerstein, Texcel</name></member>
4174 <member><name>Steve DeRose, INSO</name></member>
4175 <member><name>Dave Hollander, HP</name></member>
4176 <member><name>Eliot Kimber, ISOGEN</name></member>
4177 <member><name>Eve Maler, ArborText</name></member>
4178 <member><name>Tom Magliery, NCSA</name></member>
4179 <member><name>Murray Maloney, Muzmo and Grif</name></member>
4180 <member><name>Makoto Murata, Fuji Xerox Information Systems</name></member>
4181 <member><name>Joel Nava, Adobe</name></member>
4182 <member><name>Conleth O'Connell, Vignette</name></member>
4183 <member><name>Peter Sharpe, SoftQuad</name></member>
4184 <member><name>John Tigue, DataChannel</name></member>
4185 </orglist>
4186
4187 </inform-div1>
4188 </back>
4189 </spec>
4190 <!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
4191 Local variables:
4192 mode: sgml
4193 sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/sgml/spec.ced"
4194 sgml-omittag:t
4195 sgml-shorttag:t
4196 End:
4197 -->