Attribute Types

Each attribute listed in the module definitions will have an accompanying type definition in parentheses.

This first table holds attribute types as defined in the XML 1.0 Recommendation:

Attribute TypeDefinition
CDATACharacter Data
IDA document-unique identifier
IDREFA reference to a document-unique identifier
IDREFSA space-delimited list of references to document-unique identifiers
NAMEA name with the same character constraints as ID
NMTOKENA name composed only of name tokens as defined in XML 1.0
NMTOKENSOne or more whitespace-separated NMTOKEN values
PCDATAProcessed character data

The following table contains data types and their semantics as defined by XHTML Modularization. Links to ISO, RFC, and other references can be found in ...

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