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literal

From XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A literal is a direct syntactic representation of an atomic value.
literal

From XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A literal is a direct syntactic representation of an atomic value.
literal

From Resource Description Framework (RDF) Model and Syntax Specification (1999-02-22) | Glossary for this source

The most primitive value type represented in RDF, typically a string of characters. The content of a literal is not interpreted by RDF itself and may contain additional XML markup. Literals are distinguished from Resources in that the RDF model does not permit literals to be the subject of a statement.
literal entity value

From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 (2004-02-04) | Glossary for this source

For an external entity, the literal entity value is the exact text contained in the entity.
For an internal entity, the literal entity value is the quoted string actually present in the entity declaration, corresponding to the non-terminal EntityValue.
literal entity value

From Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (2000-10-06) | Glossary for this source

The literal entity value is the quoted string actually present in the entity declaration, corresponding to the non-terminal EntityValue.
literal namespace URI

From XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

A namespace URI in the stylesheet tree that is being used to specify a namespace URI in the result tree is called a literal namespace URI.
literal result element

From XSL Transformations (XSLT) 2.0 (2007-01-23) | Glossary for this source

In a sequence constructor, an element in the stylesheet that does not belong to the XSLT namespace and that is not an extension instruction (see ) is classified as a literal result element.

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