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XML简明教程(国外英语资料) XML introductory tutorial What is an XML element? XML is an identifier language, a set of rules for creating the syntax tags that describe the data. An XML element is made up of the data between the start tag, the end tag, and the tag. Start and end tags to describe the data between tags. The data between the tags is considered to be the value of the element. For example, in the example of an XML element below, the value of the element director is Ed Wood. director Ed Wood / director The element name ( director ) allows you to label Ed Wood so that you can separate the data from other similar data. For example, there might be another element whose value is Ed Wood. actor Ed Wood / actor Since each element has a different tag name, you can easily distinguish the values of the two elements above. If there is no semantic way to scale the data, two elements with the same value will be confused. attribute An element can contain one or more attributes, which is a name value separated by =, such as: CITY ZIP = 01085 Westfield / CITY In the example above, ZIP = 01085 is an attribute of CITY . The attribute is used to add additional, secondary information to an element, usually a meta information, and the attribute can also use the default value, which the element cannot do. Each attribute of the element can be specified in any order, but only once. In addition, the XML tags are case sensitive, so these three are different elements. City City City What is an XML document? A basic XML document is an XML element that can nest an XML element. For example, the following XML element books is a valid XML document. The books book isbn = 0345374827 title The Great Shark Hunt / title author Hunter s. Thompson / author / book / books Handling guidelines Building a basic XML document needs to remember four key points: All elements must have an end tag; All elements must be properly nested (no overlapping elements are allowed); All eige