The XML Infoset, Character Data and Attribute Types

["Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@microsoft.com>]

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Two quick questions about the XML information set[0]

 

1.) Are syntactic components like the individual characters in CDATA section delimiters '<![CDATA[' & ']]>' or the individual characters in an entity reference '&lt;' treated as significant by the Character Information Item[1] section of the W3C XML information set recommendation or not?  I have long taken my cue from XPath that neither is significant within the data model of an XML document but just wanted to make sure I was not incorrect.

 

2.) Is there any dependency or interaction between the [attribute type] property of the attribute information[2] item and the

various type related properties[3] the attribute information item has in the PSVI?

 

[0] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.character

[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset/#infoitem.attribute

[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/#a-type_definition

 

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