XML Model Glossary

all

A group particle indicating that child elements can appear in any order, each

 

of them once or not

annotation

Additional information about a model and its objects proceeding from

 

documentation and/or applications

any

Allows you to attach any type of object to a choice or a sequence group

 

particle

any attribute

Allows you to insert any attribute of specified namespaces into an element, a

 

complex type or an attribute group

attribute

Additional information about an element or a complex type

attribute group

A set of attributes that can be incorporated into an element, a complex type or

 

another attribute group, with only the reference of its name

business rule

A written statement specifying what an XML model must contain or how it

 

must be structured to support business needs

character data

In a schema or a DTD, all text that is not markup and that will not be parsed

choice

A group particle indicating that only one child element can be linked to its

 

parent element

complex type

A data type definition to determine the attributes and child elements of a

 

parent element

complex content

Allows you to extend or restrict the values of a complex type with mixed

 

content or elements only

derivation

Used to extend or restrict the values of simple types and complex types

DTD

Document Type Definition. An XML language defining the content of an

 

XML file with a list of legal elements

element

The basic building block of an XML model

embedded type

Locally defined data type. For an object encapsulated into another object

entity

Enables you to include predefined values, external XML or non-XML files

 

(URL values) in an XML model defined with a DTD

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