Essential XML: Beyond Markup

Appendix A: XML 1.0 Reporting Requirements (informative)

Although the XML 1.0 Recommendation [XML] is primarily concerned with XMLsyntax, it also includes some specific reporting requirements for XML processors.

The reporting requirements include errors, which are outside the scope ofthis specification, and document information; all of the XML 1.0 requirementsfor document information reporting have been integrated into the XML information set specification (numbers in parentheses refer to sections of the Recommendation):

1. An XML processor must always provide all characters in a document that are not part of markup to the application (2.10). We have interpreted this requirement to refer only to characters within the document element.

2. A validating ...