Beginning XML - Part III (Building Blocks)
XML documents (and HTML documents) are made up by the following
building blocks:
· Elements
· Tags
· Attributes
· Entities
· PCDATA
· CDATA
This is a brief explanation of each of the building blocks:
Elements
Elements are the main building blocks of both XML and HTML
documents.
Examples of HTML elements are "body" and "table". Examples of XML
elements could be "my-schedule" and "date". Elements can contain
text, other elements, or be empty. Examples of empty HTML
elements are "hr", "br" and "img".
Tags
Tags are used to markup elements.
A starting tag like mark up the beginning of an
element, and an ending tag like mark up the end
of an element.
Examples:
A body element: body text in between
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