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Learning XML
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Learning XML

by Erik T. Ray
January 2001
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
9h 10m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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candidate recommendation

In the standards process, a candidate recommendation is a specification that has achieved enough consensus by its working group to be released for public review. See also recommendation, standards body.

catalog

A specially formatted text file (usually local) whose information is used to resolve public identifiers into system identifiers. The catalog file format was formally specified by OASIS Technical Resolution 9401:1997. See also formal public identifier, URI.

CDATA (character data)

CDATA is an entity datatype consisting of non-parsed characters. Entity references included in this data will not be resolved. A CDATA marked section looks like this:

<![CDATA unparsed content]]>

See also PCDATA.

character encoding

The representation of characters as unique numbers in a character set. See also character set.

character entity

A notation for any character or symbol that uses its character set number or abbreviation. The common syntax for character encoding is an ampersand (&), followed by the name or a #-sign and number, terminated with a semicolon. For example, the copyright symbol © can be output in a document by using either &#169; or &copy;.

character set

A collection of letters, numbers, and symbols representing a language or set of languages, mapped to specified numbers that can be understood by computer programs. See also character encoding.

comment

Specially marked text in the the document source that is not interpreted by the parser. XML ...

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