Synonyms
XML attribute; XML attribute node
Definition
An XML attribute is used to represent additional information on an XML element in the W3C XML recommendation [2].
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The name of an XML attribute has to be unique for a given element. Therefore, the following XML element is not allowed
<e a1 = “v1” a1 = “v2”/>while the following is well-formed
<e1 a1 = “v1”> <e2 a1 = “v2”/> </e1>
An XML attribute has a value that follows the attribute value normalization rules outlined in Sec. 3.3.3 of [2]. This means that several whitespace characters do not get preserved in attribute values, unless they are explicitly represented with a character entity (e.g., for carriage return).
Attributes can be constrained and typed by schema languages such as XML DTDs [2] or XML Schema [3].
An XML attribute is represented as an XML attribute information item in the XML Information Set [1] and an XML attribute node in the XPath and XQuery data model [4].
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XML 1.0 Information Set, latest edition available online at: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-infoset.
XML 1.0 Recommendation, latest edition available online at: http://www.w3.org/TR/xml.
XML Schema Part 0: Primer, latest edition available online at: http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-0/.
XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (XDM), latest edition available online at: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel/.
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Rys, M. (2018). XML Attribute. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_796
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