textdata
textdata — Pointer to external text data.
Synopsis
textdata ::=
info? (db.titleforbidden.info)
Attributes
Additional attributes:
- encoding
- Each of:
- format
- Exactly one of:
- fileref (anyURI)
- entityref (ENTITY)
Required attributes are shown in bold.
Additional Constraints
- If this element is the root element, it must have a version attribute.
Description
This element points to an external entity containing text to be inserted.
Any markup in the text identified with
textdata will be escaped. In other words, this
element is for inserting things like program listings, not parts of an
XML document. To break a document into separate physical files, use
XInclude or external parsed entities.
Processing expectations
May be formatted inline or as a displayed block, depending on context.
There are two ways to provide content for
textdata: entityref or fileref. It is best to use only one of
these methods; however, if multiple sources are provided, entityref will be used in favor of
fileref.
If the encoding is such that the processor will not be able to
determine the encoding of the text, the encoding can be specified in
the encoding attribute. For
encodings registered (as
charsets) with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority,
recommended best practice suggests that they be referred to using
their registered names.
Attributes
- any attribute
Any attribute in any other explicit namespace
- encoding
Identifies the encoding of the text in the external file
- entityref
Identifies the location of the data by external identifier (entity name)
- fileref
Indentifies the location of the data by URI
- format
Specifies the format of the data
Parents
These elements contain textdata: textobject.
Children
The following elements occur in textdata: info (db.titleforbidden.info).