Noun
well-formedness (uncountable)
The property of being well-formed.
However, building on theories of defeasible reasoning (see John L. Pollock ), systems have been built that define well-formedness of arguments, rules governing the process of introducing arguments based on fixed assumptions, and rules for shifting burden. Source: Internet
However XML's well-formedness rules cannot support Wiki-like languages, leaving them unstandardized and difficult to integrate with non-text information systems. Source: Internet
Note that attribute list declarations are ignored by non-validating SGML and XML parsers (in which cases any attribute is accepted within all elements of the parsed document), but these declarations are still checked for well-formedness and validity. Source: Internet
The definition of an XML document excludes texts that contain violations of well-formedness rules; they are simply not XML. Source: Internet