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XML Schema Complete Reference, The
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XML Schema Complete Reference, The

by Cliff Binstock, Chris Galtenberg, Mike Wooding, Chris Dix, Mitchell Smith, Dave Peterson
September 2002
Intermediate to advanced
1008 pages
22h 3m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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5.2. The XML Information Set

The XML Recommendation does not specify the information that a parser should deliver. That has been rectified, at least in part, by the Infoset Recommendation, which states:

This specification defines an abstract data set called the XML Information Set (infoset). Its purpose is to provide a consistent set of definitions for use in other specifications that need to refer to the information in a well-formed XML document.

Conforming XML parsers are not required to implement exactly this information set, although, fortunately, many do so in one way or another. Some XML processors actually keep more detailed information about the data in an XML document than is officially in the XML infoset. Indeed, the Infoset Recommendation ...

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