An Example XML Document

ben2ong2 · October 05, 2006, 04:58:14 PM

XML documents use a self-describing and simple syntax.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?><note><to>Tove</to><from>Jani</from><heading>Reminder</heading><body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body></note>
The first line in the document - the XML declaration - defines the XML version and the character encoding used in the document. In this case the document conforms to the 1.0 specification of XML and uses the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1/West European) character set.
The next line describes the root element of the document (like it was saying: "this document is a note"):
<note>
The next 4 lines describe 4 child elements of the root (to, from, heading, and body):
<to>Tove</to><from>Jani</from><heading>Reminder</heading><body>Don't forget me this weekend!</body>
And finally the last line defines the end of the root element:
</note>
Can you detect from this example that the XML document contains a Note to Tove from Jani? Don't you agree that XML is pretty self-descriptive?

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