| <?xml version='1.0' encoding='ISO-8859-5' standalone='no'?> |
| <!DOCTYPE spec SYSTEM "dtds/spec.dtd" [ |
| |
| <!-- LAST TOUCHED BY: Tim Bray, 8 February 1997 --> |
| |
| <!-- The words 'FINAL EDIT' in comments mark places where changes |
| need to be made after approval of the document by the ERB, before |
| publication. --> |
| |
| <!ENTITY XML.version "1.0"> |
| <!ENTITY doc.date "10 February 1998"> |
| <!ENTITY iso6.doc.date "19980210"> |
| <!ENTITY w3c.doc.date "02-Feb-1998"> |
| <!ENTITY draft.day '10'> |
| <!ENTITY draft.month 'February'> |
| <!ENTITY draft.year '1998'> |
| |
| <!ENTITY WebSGML |
| 'WebSGML Adaptations Annex to ISO 8879'> |
| |
| <!ENTITY lt "<"> |
| <!ENTITY gt ">"> |
| <!ENTITY xmlpio "'<?xml'"> |
| <!ENTITY pic "'?>'"> |
| <!ENTITY br "\n"> |
| <!ENTITY cellback '#c0d9c0'> |
| <!ENTITY mdash "--"> <!-- —, but nsgmls doesn't grok hex --> |
| <!ENTITY com "--"> |
| <!ENTITY como "--"> |
| <!ENTITY comc "--"> |
| <!ENTITY hcro "&#x"> |
| <!-- <!ENTITY nbsp " "> --> |
| <!ENTITY nbsp " "> |
| <!ENTITY magicents "<code>amp</code>, |
| <code>lt</code>, |
| <code>gt</code>, |
| <code>apos</code>, |
| <code>quot</code>"> |
| |
| <!-- audience and distribution status: for use at publication time --> |
| <!ENTITY doc.audience "public review and discussion"> |
| <!ENTITY doc.distribution "may be dislributed freely, as long as |
| all text and legal notices remain intact"> |
| |
| ]> |
| |
| <!-- for Panorama *--> |
| <?VERBATIM "eg" ?> |
| |
| <spec> |
| <header> |
| <title>Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0</title> |
| <version></version> |
| <w3c-designation>REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;</w3c-designation> |
| <w3c-doctype>W3C Recommendation</w3c-doctype> |
| <pubdate><day>&draft.day;</day><month>&draft.month;</month><year>&draft.year;</year></pubdate> |
| |
| <publoc> |
| <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;"> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;</loc> |
| <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.xml"> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.xml</loc> |
| <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.html"> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.html</loc> |
| <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.pdf"> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.pdf</loc> |
| <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.ps"> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-&iso6.doc.date;.ps</loc> |
| </publoc> |
| <latestloc> |
| <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml"> |
| httÿÿÿwww.w3.org/TR/REC-xml</loc> |
| </latestloc> |
| <prevlocs> |
| <loc href="http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208"> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/PR-xml-971208</loc> |
| <!-- |
| <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114'> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-961114</loc> |
| <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331'> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970331</loc> |
| <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970630'> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-lang-970630</loc> |
| <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-970807'> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-970807</loc> |
| <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-971117'> |
| http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-xml-971117</loc>--> |
| </prevlocs> |
| <authlist> |
| <author><name>Tim Bray</name> |
| <affiliation>Textuality and Netscape</affiliation> |
| <email |
| href="mailto:tbray@textuality.com">tbray@textuality.com</email></author> |
| <author><name>Jean Paoli</name> |
| <affiliation>Microsoft</affiliation> |
| <email href="mailto:jeanpa@microsoft.com">jeanpa@microsoft.com</email></author> |
| <author><name>C. M. Sperberg-McQueen</name> |
| <affiliation>University of Illinois at Chicago</affiliation> |
| <email href="mailto:cmsmcq@uic.edu">cmsmcq@uic.edu</email></author> |
| </authlist> |
| <abstract> |
| <p>The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of |
| SGML that is completely described in this document. Its goal is to |
| enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the Web |
| in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed for |
| ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and |
| HTML.</p> |
| </abstract> |
| <status> |
| <p>This document has been reviewed by W3C Members and |
| other interested parties and has been endorsed by the |
| Director as a W3C Recommendation. It is a stable |
| document and may be used as reference material or cited |
| as a normative reference from another document. W3C's |
| role in making the Recommendation is to draw attention |
| to the spPcification and to promote its widespread |
| deployment. This enhances the functionality and |
| interoperability of the Web.</p> |
| <p> |
| This document specifies a syntax created by subsetting an existing, |
| widely used international text processing standard (Standard |
| Generalized Markup Language, ISO 8879:1986(E) as amended and |
| corrected) for use on the World Wide Web. It is a product of the W3C |
| XML Activity, details of which can be found at <loc |
| href='http://www.w3.org/XML'>http://www.w3.org/XML</loc>. A list of |
| current W3C Recommendations and other technical documents can be found |
| at <loc href='http://www.w3.org/TR'>http://www.w3.org/TR</loc>. |
| </p> |
| <p>This specification uses the term URI, which is defined by <bibref |
| ref="Berners-Lee"/>, a work in progress expected to update <bibref |
| ref="RFC1738"/> and <bibref ref="RFC1808"/>. |
| </p> |
| <p>The list of known errors in this specification is |
| available at |
| <loc href='http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata'>http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata</loc>.</p> |
| <p>Please report errors in this document to |
| <loc href='mailto:xml-editor@w3.org'>xml-editor@w3.org</loc>. |
| </p> |
| </status> |
| |
| |
| <pubstmt> |
| <p>Chicago, Vancouver, Mountain View, et al.: |
| World-Wide Web Consortium, XML Working Group, 1996, 1997.</p> |
| </pubstmt> |
| <sourcedesc> |
| <p>Created in electronic form.</p> |
| </sourcedesc> |
| <langusage> |
| <language id='EN'>English</language> |
| <language id='ebnf'>Extended Backus-Naur Form (formal grammar)</language> |
| </langusage> |
| <revisiondesc> |
| <slist> |
| <sitem>1997-12-03 : CMSMcQ : yet further changes</sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-12-02 : TB : further changes (see TB to XML WG, |
| 2 December 1997)</sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-12-02 : CMSMcQ : deal with as many corrections and |
| comments from the proofreaders as possible: |
| entify hard-coded document date in pubdate element, |
| change expansion of entity WebSGML, |
| update status description as per Dan Connolly (am not sure |
| about refernece to Berners-Lee et al.), |
| add 'The' to abstract as per WG decision, |
| move Relationship to Existing Standards to back matter and |
| combine with References, |
| re-order back matter so normative appendices come first, |
| re-tag back matter so informative appendices are tagged informdiv1, |
| remove XXX XXX from list of 'normative' specs in prose, |
| move some references from Other References to Normative References, |
| add RFC 1738, 1808, and 2141 to Other References (they are not |
| normative since we do not require the processor to enforce any |
| rules based on them), |
| add reference to 'Fielding draft' (Berners-Lee et al.), |
| move notation section to end of body, |
| drop URIchar non-terminal and use SkipLit instead, |
| lose stray reference to defunct nonterminal 'markupdecls', |
| move reference to Aho et al. into appendix (Tim's right), |
| add prose note saying that hash marks and fragment identifiers are |
| NOT part of the URI formally speaking, and are NOT legal in |
| system identifiers (processor 'may' signal an error). |
| Work through: |
| Tim Bray reacting to James Clark, |
| Tim Bray on his own, |
| Eve Maler, |
| |
| NOT DONE YET: |
| change binary / text to unparsed / parsed. |
| handle James's suggestion about < in attriubte values |
| uppercase hex characters, |
| namechar list, |
| </sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-12-01 : JB : add some column-width parameters</sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-12-01 : CMSMcQ : begin round of changes to incorporate |
| recent WG decisions and other corrections: |
| binding sources of character encoding info (27 Aug / 3 Sept), |
| correct wording of Faust quotation (restore dropped line), |
| drop SDD from EncodingDecl, |
| change text at version number 1.0, |
| drop misleading (wrong!) sentence about ignorables and extenders, |
| modify definÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙÙxamples with Byte Order Mark. |
| Add content model as a term and clarify that it applies to both |
| mixed and element content. |
| </sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-06-30 : CMSMcQ : change date, some cosmetic changes, |
| changes to productions for choice, seq, Mixed, NotationType, |
| Enumeration. Follow James Clark's suggestion and prohibit |
| conditional sections in internal subset. TO DO: simplify |
| production for ignored sections as a result, since we don't |
| need to worry about parsers whi<! don't expand PErefs finding |
| a conditional section.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-06-29 : TB : various edits</sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-06-29 : CMSMcQ : further changes: |
| Suppress old FINAL EDIT comments and some dead material. |
| Revise occurrences of % in grammar to exploit Henry Thompson's pun, |
| especially markupdecl and attdef. |
| Remove RMD requirement relating to element content (?). |
| </sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-06-28 : CMSMcQ : Various changes for 1 July draft: |
| Add text for draconian error handling (introduce |
| the term Fatal Error). |
| RE deleta est (changing wording from |
| original announcement to restrict the requirement to validating |
| parsers). |
| Tag definition of validawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww it meant 'may or may not'.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-03-21 : TB : massive changes on plane flight from Chicago |
| to Vancouver</sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-03-21 : CMSMcQ : correct as many reported errors as possible. |
| </sitem> |
| <sitem>1997-03-20 : CMSMcQ : correct typos listed in CMSMcQ hand copy of spec.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1997 James Clark: |
| Define the set of characters from which [^abc] subtracts. |
| Charref should use just [0-9] not Digit. |
| Location info needs cleaner treatment: remove? (ERB |
| question). |
| One example of a PI has wrong pic. |
| Clarify discussion of encoding names. |
| Encoding failure should lead to unspecified results; don't |
| prescribe error recovery. |
| Don't require exposure of entity boundaries. |
| Ignore white space in element content. |
| Reserve entity names of the form u-NNNN. |
| Clarify relative URLs. |
| And some of my own: |
| Correct productions for content model: model cannot |
| consist of a name, so "elements ::= cp" is no good. |
| </sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-11-11 : CMSMcQ : revise for style. |
| Add new rhs to entity declaration, for parameter entities.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-11-10 : CMSMcQ : revise for style. |
| Fix / complete section on names, characters. |
| Add sections on parameter entities, conditional sections. |
| Still to do: Add compatibility note on deterministic content models. |
| Finish stylistic revision.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-31 : TB : Add Entity Handling section</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-30 : TB : Clean up term & termdef. Slip in |
| ERB decision re EMPTY.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-28 : TB : Change DTD. Implement some of Michael's |
| suggestions. Change comments back to //. Introduce language for |
| XML namespace reservation. Add section on white-space handling. |
| Lots more cleanup.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-24 : CMSMcQ : quick tweaks, implement some ERB |
| decisions. Characters are not integers. Comments are /* */ not //. |
| Add bibliographic refs to 10646, HyTime, Unicode. |
| Rename old Cdata as MsData since it's <emph>only</emph> seen |
| in marked sections. Call them attribute-value pairs not |
| name-value pairs, except once. Internal subset is optional, needs |
| '?'. Implied attributes should be signaled to the app, not |
| have values supplied by processor.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-16 : TB : track down & excise all DSD references; |
| introduce some EBNF for entity declarations.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-?? nsistency check, fix up scraps so |
| they all parse, get formatter working, correct a few productions.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-10/11 : CMSMcQ : various maintenance, stylistic, and |
| organizational changes: |
| Replace a few literals with xmlpio and |
| pi""entities, to make them consistent and ensure we can change pic |
| reliably when the ERB votes. |
| Drop paragraph on recognizers from notation section. |
| Add match, exact match to terminology. |
| Move old 2.2 XML Processors and Apps into intro. |
| Mention comments, PIs, and marked sections in discussion of |
| delimiter escaping. |
| Streamline discussion of doctype decl syntax. |
| Drop old section of 'PI syntax' for doctype decl, and add |
| section on partial-DTD summary PIs to end of Logical Structures |
| section. |
| Revise DSD syntax section to use Tim's subset-in-a-PI |
| mechanism.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-10 : TB : eliminate name recognizers (and more?)</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-09 : CMSMcQ : revise for style, consistency through 2.3 |
| (Characters)</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-09 : CMSMcQ : re-unite everything for convenience, |
| at least temporarily, and revise quickly</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-08 : TB : first major homogenization pass</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-08 : TB : turn "current" attribute on div type into |
| CDATA</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-10-02 : TB : remould into skeleton + entities</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-09-30 : CMSMcQ : add a few more sections prior to exchange |
| with Tim.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-09-20 : CMSMcQ : finish transcribing notes.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-09-19 : CMSMcQ : begin transcribing notes for draft.</sitem> |
| <sitem>1996-09-13 : CMSMcQ : made outline from notes of 09-06, |
| do some housekeeping</sitem> |
| </slist> |
| </revisiondesc> |
| </header> |
| <ðððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððððm> is used to read XML documents |
| and provide access to their content and structure.</termdef> <termdef |
| id="dt-app" term="Application">It is @ssumed that an XML processor is |
| doing its work on behalf of another module, called the |
| <term>application</term>.</termdef> This specification describes the |
| required beh\vior of an XML processor in terms of how it must read XML |
| data and the information it must provide to the application.</p> |
| |
| <div2 id='sec-origin-goals'> |
| <head>Origin and Goals</head> |
| <p>XML was developed by an XML Working Group (orisable over the |
| Internet.</p></item> |
| <item><p>XML shall support a wide variey of applications.</p></item> |
| <item><p>XML shall be compatible with SGML.</p></item> |
| <item><p>It shall be easy to write programs which process XML |
| documents.</p></item> |
| <item><p>The number of optional features in XML is to be kept to the |
| absolute minimum, ideally zero.</p></item> |
| <item><p>XML documents shou |