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tag/attrib/value description
d: 0-9                 Decimal digit (0, 1, 2, 3, ...)
h: [0-9 a-f A-F]                 Hexadecimal digit (8, 9, A, B, ...)
i: (+|-)?n                 Integer (-2, -1, 0, 1, ...)
n: d+                 Positive Integer (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...)
c                 a single character
String | CDATA                 Any character-string value
ShortText                 Text without spaces can be unquoted
"Long Text"                 Text with spaces must be quoted
sClassList = sClassName sClassName*                
sClassName: sIdentifier                
NAME                 One value from a limited set of values
NAMES                 List of values
ID                 Document-wide unique ID
IDREF                 Matches field ID value
Charset                 a character encoding
Charsets                 a space separated list of character encodings
Color 3.2 1   2   1 x - Color indication
#hhhhhh 3.2 1   2   1   - a color using sRGB: #RRGGBB as Hex values
hhhhhh - 1   2       - a color using sRGB without leading symbol
NamedColor 3.2 1   2   1 x -
black 3.2 1   2   1 x -
#000000
navy 3.2 1   2   1 x - #000080
navyblue - -   -     x - #000080
darkblue - 3   2   - x - #00008B
mediumblue - 3   2   1 x - #0000CD
blue 3.2 1   2   1 x - #0000FF
darkgreen - 3   2   1 x - #006400
green 3.2 1   2   1 x - #008000
teal 3.2 1   2   1 x - #008080
darkcyan - 3   2   - x - #008B8B
deepskyblue - 3   2   1 x - #00BFFF
darkturquoise - 3   2   1 x - #00CED1
mediumgreen - -   -     x - #00FA9A
mediumspringgreen - 3   2   1 x - #00FA9A
lime 3.2 1   2   1 x - #00FF00
springgreen - 3   2   1 x - #00FF7F
aqua 3.2 1   2   1 x - #00FFFF
cyan - 3   2   1 x - #00FFFF
midnightblue - 3   2   1 x - #191970
dodgerblue - 3   2   1 x - #1E90FF
lightseagreen - 3   2   1 x - #20B2AA
forestgreen - 3   2   1 x - #228B22
seagreen - 3   2   1 x - #2E8B57
darkslategray - 3   2   - x - #2F4F4F
darkslategrey - -   -     x - #2F4F4F
limegreen - 3   2   1 x - #32CD32
mediumseagreen - 3   2   1 x - #3CB371
turquoise - 3   2   1 x - #40E0D0
royalblue - 3   2   1 x - #4169E1
steelblue - 3   2   1 x - #4682B4
darkslateblue - 3   2   1 x - #483D8B
mediumturquoise - 3   2   1 x - #48D1CC
indigo - 3   2   - x - #4B0082
darkolivegreen - 3   2   1 x - #556B2F
cadetblue - 3   2   1 x - #5F9EA0
cornflower - -   -   - - - #6495ED
cornflowerblue - 3   2     x - #6495ED
mediumaquamarine - 3   2   1 x - #66CDAA
dimgray - 3   2   1 x - #696969
dimgrey - -   -     x - #696969
slateblue - 3   2   1 x - #6A5ACD
olivedrab - 3   2   1 x - #6B8E23
slategray - 3   2   1 x - #708090
slategrey - -   -     x - #708090
lightslategray - 3   2   1 x - #778899
lightslategrey - -   -     x - #778899
mediumslateblue - 3   2   1 x - #7B68EE
lawngreen - 3   2   1 x - #7CFC00
chartreuse - 3   2   1 x - #7FFF00
aquamarine - 3   2   1 x - #7FFFD4
maroon 3.2 1   2   1 x - #800000
purple 3.2 1   2   1 x - #800080
olive 3.2 1   2   1 x - #808000
gray 3.2 1   2   1 x - #808080
grey - -   -     x - #808080
skyblue - 3   2   1 x - #87CEEB
lightskyblue - 3   2   1 x - #87CEFA
blueviolet - 3   2   1 x - #8A2BE2
darkred - 3   2   - x - #8B0000
darkmagenta - 3   2   - x - #8B008B
saddlebrown - 3   2   - x - #8B4513
darkseagreen - 3   2   1 x - #8FBC8F
lightgreen - 3   2   - x - #90EE90
mediumpurple - 3   2   1 x - #9370DB
darkviolet - 3   2   1 x - #9400D3
palegreen - 3   2   1 x - #98FB98
darkorchid - 3   2   1 x - #9932CC
yellowgreen - 3   2   1 x - #9ACD32
sienna - 3   2   1 x - #A0522D
brown - 3   2   1 x - #A52A2A
darkgray - 3   2   - x - #A9A9A9
darkgrey - -   -     x - #A9A9A9
lightblue - 3   2   1 x - #ADD8E6
greenyellow - 3   2   1 x - #ADFF2F
paleturquoise - 3   2   1 x - #AFEEEE
lightsteelblue - 3   2   1 x - #B0C4DE
powderblue - 3   2   1 x - #B0E0E6
firebrick - 3   2   1 x - #B22222
darkgoldenrod - 3   2   1 x - #B8860B
mediumorchid - 3   2   1 x - #BA55D3
rosybrown - 3   2   1 x - #BC8F8F
darkkhaki - 3   2   1 x - #BDB76B
silver 3.2 1   2   1 x - #C0C0C0
mediumvioletred - 3   2   1 x - #C71585
indianred - 3   2   1 x - #CD5C5C
peru - 3   2   1 x - #CD853F
chocolate - 3   2   1 x - #D2691E
tan - 3   2   1 x - #D2B48C
lightgray - -   -     x - #D3D3D3
lightgrey - 3   2   - x - #D3D3D3
thistle - 3   2   1 x - #D8BFD8
orchid - 3   2   1 x - #DA70D6
goldenrod - 3   2   1 x - #DAA520
palevioletred - 3   2   1 x - #DB7093
crimson - 3   2   - x - #DC143C
gainsboro - 3   2   1 x - #DCDCDC
plum - 3   2   1 x - #DDA0DD
burlywood - 3   2   - x - #DEB887
lightcyan - 3   2   1 x - #E0FFFF
lavender - 3   2   1 x - #E6E6FA
darksalmon - 3   2   1 x - #E9967A
violet - 3   2   1 x - #EE82EE
palegoldenrod - 3   2   1 x - #EEE8AA
lightcoral - 3   2   1 x - #F08080
khaki - 3   2   1 x - #F0E68C
aliceblue - 3   2   - x - #F0F8FF
honeydew - 3   2   1 x - #F0FFF0
azure - 3   2   1 x - #F0FFFF
sandybrown - 3   2   1 x - #F4A460
wheat - 3   2   1 x - #F5DEB3
beige - 3   2   1 x - #F5F5DC
whitesmoke - 3   2   - x - #F5F5F5
mintcream - 3   2   1 x - #F5FFFA
ghostwhite - 3   2   1 x - #F8F8FF
salmon - 3   2   - x - #FA8072
antiquewhite - 3   2   1 x - #FAEBD7
linen - 3   2   1 x - #FAF0E6
lightgoldenrodyellow - 3   2   1 x - #FAFAD2
oldlace - 3   2   1 x - #FDF5E6
red 3.2 1   2   1 x - #FF0000
fuchsia 3.2 1   2   1 x - #FF00FF
magenta - 3   2   1 x - #FF00FF
deeppink - 3   2   1 x - #FF1493
orangered - 3   2   1 x - #FF4500
tomato - 3   2   1 x - #FF6347
hotpink - 3   2   1 x - #FF69B4
coral - 3   2   1 x - #FF7F50
darkorange - 3   2   1 x - #FF8C00
lightsalmon - 3   2   1 x - #FFA07A
orange - 3   2   1 x - #FFA500
lightpink - 3   2   1 x - #FFB6C1
pink - 3   2   1 x - #FFC0CB
gold - 3   2   1 x - #FFD700
peachpuff - 3   2   1 x - #FFDAB9
navajowhite - 3   2   1 x - #FFDEAD
moccasin - 3   2   1 x - #FFE4B5
bisque - 3   2   1 x - #FFE4C4
mistyrose - 3   2   1 x - #FFE4E1
blanchedalmond - 3   2   1 x - #FFEBCD
papayawhip - 3   2   1 x - #FFEFD5
lavenderblush - 3   2   1 x - #FFF0F5
seashell - 3   2   1 x - #FFF5EE
cornsilk - 3   2   1 x - #FFF8DC
lemonchiffon - 3   2   1 x - #FFFACD
floralwhite - 3   2   1 x - #FFFAF0
snow - 3   2   1 x - #FFFAFA
yellow 3.2 1   2   1 x - #FFFF00
lightyellow - 3   2   1 x - #FFFFE0
ivory - 3   2   1 x - #FFFFF0
white 3.2 1   2   1 x - #FFFFFF
SystemColor -     -       -
ActiveBorder -     -       -
ActiveCaption -     -       -
AppWorkspace -     -       -
Background -     -       -
ButtonFace -     -       -
ButtonHighlight -     -       -
ButtonShadow -     -       -
ButtonText -     -       -
CaptionText -     -       -
GrayText -     -       -
Highlight -     -       -
HighlightText -     -       -
InactiveBorder -     -       -
InactiveCaption -     -       -
InactiveCaptionText -     -       -
InfoBackground -     -       -
InfoText -     -       -
Menu -     -       -
MenuText -     -       -
Scrollbar -     -       -
ThreeDFace -     -       -
ThreeDHighlight -     -       -
ThreeDLightShadow -     -       -
ThreeDShadow                
Window -     -       -
WindowFrame -     -       -
WindowText -     -       -
ContentType                 advisory content type
ContentTypes                 list of advisory content type s
Coords                 comma separated list of lengths
DateTime                 date and time information. ISO date format
FontFaceList   1   3   1   - comma separated list of font names
Named face   1   3   1   - Font identified by name
Sans-Serif   3   4   1   - Generic sans-serif font
Serif   3   4   1   - Generic serif font
Cursive   3   6   1   - Generic cursive (script) font
Fantasy   3   4   1   - Generic fantasy (display) font
Monospace   3   4   1   - Generic monospaced (fixed) font
sFrameTarget                 render in this frame
sNamedFrame       2         Frame identified by name
_self                 Current frame
_parent                 Parent frame
_top                 Topmost frame
_blank                 Unnamed window
_search - 5.0             Searchframe
sHTTPHeader / vContent                 HTTP Response Header
string                
variant                
ACCEPT                 Acceptable media types.
ACCEPT-CHARSET                 Acceptable character sets.
ACCEPT-ENCODING                 Acceptable content-coding values.
ACCEPT-LANGUAGE                 Acceptable natural languages.
ACCEPT-RANGES                 Accepted types of range requests.
AGE                 Amount of time since response.
ALLOW                 Methods supported by the server.
AUTHORIZATION                 Authorization credentials.
CACHE-CONTROL                 Cache control directives.
CONNECTION                 Local proxy options.
CONTENT-BASE                 Base Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) for resolving relative URLs within the entity.
CONTENT-DESCRIPTION                 Obsolete. Maintained for legacy application compatibility only.
CONTENT-DISPOSITION                 Obsolete. Maintained for legacy application compatibility only.
CONTENT-ENCODING                 Any additional content codings that have been applied to the entire resource.
CONTENT-ID                 Content identification.
CONTENT-LANGUAGE                 Language in which the content is presented.
CONTENT-LENGTH                 Size of the resource, in bytes.
CONTENT-LOCATION                 Resource location for the entity enclosed in the message.
CONTENT-MD5                 MD5 digest of the entity-body for the purpose of providing an end-to-end message integrity check (MIC) for the entity-body. For more information, see RFC1864, The Content-MD5 Header Field, at ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1864.txt.
CONTENT-RANGE                 Location in the full entity-body where the partial entity-body should be inserted and the total size of the full entity-body.
CONTENT-SCRIPT-TYPE                
Format;                
[charset=Encoding]?                
CONTENT-STYLE-TYPE                
Format;                
[charset=Encoding]?                
CONTENT-TRANSFER_ENCODING                 Additional content coding that has been applied to the resource.
CONTENT-TYPE                 Content type of the resource (such as text/html).
Format;                
[charset=Encoding]?                
COOKIE                 Cookies associated with the request.
COST                 Not supported.
DATE                 Date and time at which the message was originated.
DERIVED-FROM                 Not supported.
ECHO-HEADERS                 Not implemented.
ECHO-HEADERS-CRLF                 Not implemented.
ECHO-REPLY                 Not implemented.
ECHO-REQUEST                 Not implemented.
ETAG                 Entity tag for the associated entity.
EXPECT                 Expect header, which indicates whether the client application should expect 100 series responses.
EXPIRES                 Date and time after which the resource should be considered outdated.
datetime                
FORWARDED                 Obsolete. Maintained for legacy application compatibility only.
FROM                 E-mail address for the human user who controls the requesting user agent if the From header is given.
HOST                 Internet host and port number of the resource being requested.
IF-MATCH                 Contents of the If-Match request-header field.
IF-MODIFIED-SINCE                 Contents of the If-Modified-Since header.
IF-NONE-MATCH                 Contents of the If-None-Match request-header field.
IF-RANGE                 Contents of If-Range request-header field.
IF-UNMODIFIED-SINCE                 Contents of the If-Unmodified-Since request-header field.
LAST-MODIFIED                 Date and time at which the server believes the resource was last modified.
LINK                 Obsolete. Maintained for legacy application compatibility only.
LOCATION                 Absolute URI.
MAX                 Not a query flag. Indicates the maximum value of an * value.
MAX-FORWARDS                 Number of proxies or gateways that can forward the request to the next inbound server.
MESSAGE-ID                 Not supported.
MIME-VERSION                 Version of the MIME protocol that was used to construct the message.
MSTHEMECOMPATIBLE                 Microsoft� Internet Explorer 6 Public Preview and later. Enables theming support for a Web page. The IHTMLMetaElement::content attribute of the meta element must be set to yes.
ORIG-URI                 Obsolete. Maintained for legacy application compatibility only.
PRAGMA                 Implementation-specific directives that might apply to any recipient along the request/response chain.
PROXY-AUTHENTICATE                 Authentication scheme and realm returned by the proxy.
PROXY-AUTHORIZATION                 Header that is used to identify the user to a proxy that requires authentication. This header can only be retrieved before the request is sent to the server.
PROXY-CONNECTION                 Proxy-Connection header.
PUBLIC                 Methods available at this server.
RANGE                 Byte range of an entity.
RAW-HEADERS                 All the headers returned by the server. Each header is terminated by "\0". An additional "\0" terminates the list of headers.
RAW-HEADERS-CRLF                 All the headers returned by the server. Each header is separated by a carriage return/line feed (CR/LF) sequence.
REFERER                 URI of the resource where the requested URI was obtained.
REFRESH                 Obsolete. Maintained for legacy application compatibility only.
nSeconds;                
[URL = uDestination]?                
REQUEST-METHOD                 Verb that is used in the request, typically GET or POST.
RETRY-AFTER                 Amount of time the service is expected to be unavailable.
SERVER                 Information about the software used by the origin server to handle the request.
SET-COOKIE                 Value of the cookie set for the request.
STATUS-CODE                 Status code returned by the server. For a list of possible values, see HTTP Status Codes.
STATUS-TEXT                 Any additional text returned by the server on the response line.
TITLE                 Obsolete. Maintained for legacy application compatibility only.
TRANSFER-ENCODING                 Type of transformation that has been applied to the message body so it can be safely transferred between the sender and recipient.
UNLESS-MODIFIED-SINCE                 Unless-Modified-Since header.
UPGRADE                 Additional communication protocols that are supported by the server.
URI                 Some or all of the URIs by which the Request-URI resource can be identified.
USER-AGENT                 Information about the user agent that made the request.
VARY                 Header that indicates that the entity was selected from a number of available representations of the response using server-driven negotiation.
VERSION                 Last response code returned by the server.
VIA                 Intermediate protocols and recipients between the user agent and the server on requests, and between the origin server and the client on responses.
WARNING                 Additional information about the status of a response that might not be reflected by the response status code.
WWW-AUTHENTICATE                 Authentication scheme and realm returned by the server.
LanguageCode 2               a language code
af -               Afrikaans
ar-ae -               Arabic (U.A.E.)
ar-bh -               Arabic (Bahrain)
ar-dz -               Arabic (Algeria)
ar-eg -               Arabic (Egypt)
ar-iq -               Arabic (Iraq)
ar-jo -               Arabic (Jordan)
ar-kw -               Arabic (Kuwait)
ar-lb -               Arabic (Lebanon)
ar-ly -               Arabic (Libya)
ar-ma -               Arabic (Morocco)
ar-om -               Arabic (Oman)
ar-qa -               Arabic (Qatar)
ar-sa -               Arabic (Saudi Arabia)
ar-sy -               Arabic (Syria)
ar-tn -               Arabic (Tunisia)
ar-ye -               Arabic (Yemen)
be -               Belarusian
bg -               Bulgarian
ca -               Catalan
cs -               Czech
da -               Danish
de -               German (Standard)
de-at -               German (Austria)
de-ch -               German (Switzerland)
de-li -               German (Liechtenstein)
de-lu -               German (Luxembourg)
el -               Greek
en -               English
en-au -               English (Australia)
en-bz -               English (Belize)
en-ca -               English (Canada)
en-gb -               English (Great Britain)
en-ie -               English (Ireland)
en-jm -               English (Jamaica)
en-nz -               English (New Zealand)
en-tt -               English (Trinidad)
en-us -               English (United States)
en-za -               English (South Africa)
es -               Spanish
es-ar -               Spanish (Argentina)
es-bo -               Spanish (Bolivia)
es-cl -               Spanish (Chile)
es-co -               Spanish (Colombia)
es-cr -               Spanish (Costa Rica)
es-do -               Spanish (Dominican Republic)
es-ec -               Spanish (Ecuador)
es-gt -               Spanish (Guatemala)
es-hn -               Spanish (Honduras)
es-mx -               Spanish (Mexico)
es-ni -               Spanish (Nicaragua)
es-pa -               Spanish (Panama)
es-pe -               Spanish (Peru)
es-pr -               Spanish (Puerto Rico)
es-py -               Spanish (Paraguay)
es-sv -               Spanish (El Salvador)
es-uy -               Spanish (Uruguay)
es-ve -               Spanish (Venezuela)
et -               Estonian
eu -               Basque
fa -               Farsi
fi -               Finnish
fo -               Faeroese
fr -               French (Standard)
fr-be -               French (Belgium)
fr-ca -               French (Canada)
fr-ch -               French (Switzerland)
fr-lu -               French (Luxembourg)
gd -               Gaelic (Scotland)
gd-ie -               Gaelic (Ireland)
he -               Hebrew
hi -               Hindi
hr -               Croatian
hu -               Hungarian
in -               Indonesian
is -               Icelandic
it -               Italian (Standard)
it-ch -               Italian (Switzerland)
ja -               Japanese
ji -               Yiddish
ko -               Korean
lt -               Lithuanian
lv -               Latvian
mk -               Macedonian
ms -               Malaysian
mt -               Maltese
nl -               Dutch (Standard)
nl-be -               Dutch (Belgium)
no -               Norwegian
pl -               Polish
pt -               Portuguese (Standard)
pt-br -               Portuguese (Brazil)
rm -               Rhaeto-Romanic
ro -               Romanian
ro-mo -               Romanian (Moldavia)
ru -               Russian
ru-mo -               Russian (Moldavia)
sb -               Sorbian
sk -               Slovak
sl -               Slovenian
sq -               Albanian
sr -               Serbian
sv -               Swedish
sv-fi -               Swedish (Finland)
sx -               Sutu
sz -               Sami (Lappish)
th -               Thai
tn -               Tswana
tr -               Turkish
ts -               Tsonga
uk -               Ukrainian
ur -               Urdu
ve -               Venda
vi -               Vietnamese
xh -               Xhosa
zh-cn -               Chinese (PRC)
zh-hk -               Chinese (Hong Kong, S.A.R. China)
zh-sg -               Chinese (Singapore)
zh-tw -               Chinese (Taiwan)
zu -               Zulu