Text

A sequence of characters, or text, makes up an XML document. Text consists of both markup and character data (element content).

Productions

[2] Char ::= #x9 | #xA | #xD | [#x20-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF]
1.0
[2] Char ::= [#x1-#xD7FF] | [#xE000-#xFFFD] | [#x10000-#x10FFFF] 1.1
[2a] RestrictedChar ::= [#x1-#x8] | [#xB-#xC] | [#xE-#x1F] | [#x7F-#x84] |
[#x86-#x9F] 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
[14] CharData ::= [^<&]* - ([^<&]* ']]>' [^<&]*)

Examples

<messages>
 <msg>This element contains a message.</msg>
</messages>

Description

A character in XML is considered an atomic unit of text. Legal characters include the tab, the carriage return, the line feed, and the legal characters of Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646. Text classed as markup consists of element start-tags (including attributes), end-tags, empty-element tags, entity and character references, comments, CDATA section delimiters, XML declarations, text declarations, processing instructions, ...

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