Attributes

Attributes are name-value pairs that may appear in a start- or empty-element tag.

Productions

[2] Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
1.0
[2] Char ::= [#x1-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] 1.1
[3] S ::= (#x20 | #x9 | #xD | #xA)+
[4] NameChar::= Letter | Digit | '.' | '-' | '_' | ':' | CombiningChar | Extender
1.0
[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] 1.1
[4a] NameChar ::= NameStartChar | "-" | "." | [0-9] | #xB7 | [#x0300-#x036F] |
[#x203F-#x2040] 1.1
[5] Name::= (Letter | '_' | ':') (NameChar)* 1.0
[5] Name ::= NameStartChar (NameChar)* 1.1
[10] AttValue     ::= '"' ([^<&"] | Reference)* '"' | "'" ([^<&'] | Reference)* "'"
[25] Eq ::= S? '=' S?
[39] element ::= EmptyElemTag | STag content Etag
[40] Stag ::= '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '>'
[41] Attribute ::= Name Eq AttValue
[44] EmptyElemTag ::= '<' Name (S Attribute)* S? '/>'
[67] Reference ::= EntityRef | CharRef
[68] EntityRef ::= '&' Name ';'
[69] PEReference ::= '%' Name ';'

Examples

<message xmlns="http://simonstl.com/ns/examples/message"
   xml:lang="en" date="20051006" >
   This is a message!
</message>

<photo source="photos/mypic.jpg" description="photo of moi"/>

Description

In effect, attributes modify an element in some way. They appear as a list after the ...

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