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| author | Sean Corrales <scorrales@usft.com> | 2015-10-14 14:52:37 -0500 |
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| committer | Sean Corrales <scorrales@usft.com> | 2015-10-14 14:52:37 -0500 |
| commit | fcc5086cfcac4e1efc365c16617aaf7ff9d86f80 (patch) | |
| tree | da683653842a5ae37177d191a51833f58e0b9a41 /xml.html.markdown | |
| parent | c357be714fe39c8c97e4d1ac12b3cdfb673d1e1e (diff) | |
| parent | 8ec133b29595b8dac963eafa63ab0c479e37a3c1 (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master'
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| -rw-r--r-- | xml.html.markdown | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/xml.html.markdown b/xml.html.markdown index 059ea132..4d33e614 100644 --- a/xml.html.markdown +++ b/xml.html.markdown @@ -38,15 +38,16 @@ Unlike HTML, XML does not specify how to display or to format data, just carry i <!-- Above is a typical XML file. It starts with a declaration, informing some metadata (optional). - + XML uses a tree structure. Above, the root node is 'bookstore', which has - three child nodes, all 'books'. Those nodes has more child nodes, and so on... - - Nodes are created using open/close tags, and childs are just nodes between + three child nodes, all 'books'. Those nodes have more child nodes (or + children), and so on... + + Nodes are created using open/close tags, and children are just nodes between the open and close tags.--> -<!-- XML carries two kind of data: +<!-- XML carries two kinds of data: 1 - Attributes -> That's metadata about a node. Usually, the XML parser uses this information to store the data properly. It is characterized by appearing with the format name="value" within the opening @@ -54,8 +55,8 @@ Unlike HTML, XML does not specify how to display or to format data, just carry i 2 - Elements -> That's pure data. That's what the parser will retrieve from the XML file. Elements appear between the open and close tags. --> - - + + <!-- Below, an element with two attributes --> <file type="gif" id="4293">computer.gif</file> @@ -68,14 +69,14 @@ A XML document is well-formated if it is syntactically correct. However, it is possible to inject more constraints in the document, using document definitions, such as DTD and XML Schema. -A XML document which follows a document definition is called valid, -regarding that document. +A XML document which follows a document definition is called valid, +regarding that document. With this tool, you can check the XML data outside the application logic. ```xml -<!-- Below, you can see an simplified version of bookstore document, +<!-- Below, you can see an simplified version of bookstore document, with the addition of DTD definition.--> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |