XML Attributes

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XML elements can have attributes.
From HTML you will remember this: <IMG SRC="computer.gif">. The SRC attribute provides additional information about the IMG element.
In HTML (and in XML) attributes provide additional information about elements:
<img src="computer.gif"><a href="demo.asp">
Attributes often provide information that is not a part of the data. In the example below, the file type is irrelevant to the data, but important to the software that wants to manipulate the element:
<file type="gif">computer.gif</file>