XML information set

XML Information Set ( Infoset ) is a W3C standard with the status of a recommendation.

The Infoset specification serves as the basis for a number of other specifications which have to make statements about the formal information content of XML documents.

A well-formed XML document has an "information set". The "information set" of such a document can contain the following 11 types of information carriers ("information items"):

• The document
• The Elements
• The attributes
• The processing instructions (" processing instructions ")
• The unresolved references to entities
• The individual letters
• The comments
• The document type declaration
• The unprocessed references to entities
• The notation information
• The namespace information

The currently valid second edition of the Infoset Standard was adopted on February 4, 2004.

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• W3C XML information set recommendation (Second Edition)
• XML Information Set, German translation (outdated)