Element Information Items

An Element Information Item holds the most frequently needed data in an XML document. There is one top-level element, associated with the Document Information Item, and all but a handful of information items are its descendants.

This information item starts with a ContentHandler.startElement() call, and ends with a ContentHandler.endElement() call.

Property	Callbacks	Explanation
[namespace name]	`ContentHandler.startElement()`, namespaceURI parameter
[local name]	`ContentHandler.startElement()`, localName parameter
[prefix]	`ContentHandler.startElement()`, qName parameter (when available)	The QName (namespace-prefixed name) includes any prefix available; for example, a QName `xhtml:a` uses the prefix xhtml.
[children]	See the sections for each type of information item: Element, Processing Instruction, Unexpanded Entity Ref, Character, Comment.
[attributes]	`ContentHandler.startElement()`, attributes parameter, `DeclHandler.attributeDecl()`	When the [namespace attributes] property value is accessible, both groups of attributes are intermixed. Values that are `#IMPLIED`, but not specified in the document text, are only visible through the `attributeDecl()` callback. If you need to know about such attributes, record them during DTD processing.
[namespace attributes]	`ContentHandler.startElement()`, attributes parameter (when available)	If the namespace-prefixes feature flag is true, these attributes are mixed with the [attributes] property. They're the ones with QName values of `xmlns`, or starting with `xmlns:`. [28] Otherwise, this data is unavailable.
[in-scope namespaces]	See the section on Namespace Information Items.
[base URI]	computed using `xml:base`	In the absence of `xml:base` attributes, this is normally the value that Locator.getSystemId() exposes during the `startElement()` callback.
[parent]	Applications must keep track of this information item if it is needed.

Manually associate these with the namespace URI http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/