HTML and CSS Reference
In-Depth Information
The XML syntax that defines the <bdo> tag under XHTML is similar, though you should
notice that many more attributes are now available for this tag:
<!ATTLIST bdo
%coreattrs;
%events;
lang %LanguageCode; #IMPLIED
xml:lang %LanguageCode; #IMPLIED
dir (ltr|rtl) #REQUIRED
>
We note that commonly repeated attributes and values under both HTML and XHTML tend
to be minimized with parameter entities like %coreattrs , which will expand to id , class ,
style , and title attributes.
SGML and XML Keywords
The previous SGML example declares the lang attribute as having values of type NAME ,
an alphabetic string. NAME is one of several SGML/XML keywords occurring in HTML
and XHTML's declarations of an attribute's type:
CDATA Unparsed character data
ID A document-wide unique identifier
IDREF A reference to a document-wide identifier
NAME An alphabetic character string plus a hyphen and a period
NMTOKEN An alphanumeric character string plus a hyphen and a period
NUMBER A character string containing decimal numbers
Notice that in the previous DTD fragment example for <bdo> that the dir attribute did
not declare its type using a keyword. Instead, the type is specified using an enumerated list
containing two possible values, ltr and rtl .
In the previous example for either SGML or XML, the dir attribute's default behavior is
specified with a keyword like one of these:
#REQUIRED A value must be supplied for the attribute.
#IMPLIED The attribute is optional.
#FIXED The attribute has a fixed value that is declared in quotes using an additional
parameter. Because the attribute/value pair is assumed to be constant, it does not
need to be used in the document instance.
A default value may also be specified using a quoted string; for example, the enctype
attribute on a form element has the MIME type shown in the string that follows by default:
enctype %ContentType; "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
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