EBNF Grammar for XML 1.1
Document
[1] document ::= prolog
22 element 39
Misc
27 * -
Char 2 * RestrictedChar
2a Char 2
*
Character range
[2] Char ::= [#x1-#xD7FF] |
[#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] /* any Unicode character,
excluding the surrogate blocks, FFFE, and FFFF.
*/
[2a] RestrictedChar ::= [#x1-#x8] |
[#xB-#xC] | [#xE-#x1F] | [#x7F-#x84] |
[#x86-#x9F]
Whitespace
[3] S ::= (#x20 | #x9 | #xD |
#xA)+
Names and tokens
[4] NameStartChar ::= ":" | [A-Z] |
"_" | [a-z] | [#xC0-#xD6] | [#xD8-#xF6] | [#xF8-#x2FF] |
[#x370-#x37D] | [#x37F-#x1FFF] | [#x200C-#x200D] | [#x2070-#x218F]
| [#x2C00-#x2FEF] | [#x3001-#xD7FF] | [#xF900-#xFDCF] |
[#xFDF0-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#xEFFFF]
[4a] NameChar ::=
NameStartChar 4 | "-" | "." | [0-9] | #xB7 | [#x0300-#x036F] |
[#x203F-#x2040]
[5] Name ::=
NameStartChar 4 ( NameChar 4a
)*
[6] Names ::= Name
5 (#x20
Name 5 )*
[7] Nmtoken ::= (
NameChar 4a )+
[8] Nmtokens ::= Nmtoken
7 (#x20
Nmtoken 7 )*
Literals
[9] EntityValue ::= '"' ([^%&"]
| PEReference 69 | Reference
67 )* '"' |
"'" ([^%&'] | PEReference
69 |
Reference 67 )* "'"
[10] AttValue ::= '"'
([^<&"] | Reference 67
)* '"' | "'" ([^<&'] |
Reference 67 )* "'"
[11] SystemLiteral ::= ('"' [^"]*
'"') | ("'" [^']* "'")
[12] PubidLiteral ::= '"'
PubidChar 13 * '"' | "'" ( PubidChar
13 - "'")*
"'"
[13] PubidChar ::= #x20 | #xD | #xA
| [a-zA-Z0-9] | [-'( )+,./:=?;!*#@$_%]
Character data
[14] CharData ::= [^<&]* -
([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*)
Comments
[15] Comment ::= '<!--' ((
Char 2 - '-') | ('-' ( Char
2 - '-')))*
'-->'
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