Introduction to XML
Syd Bauman
2014-06-02
WHAT is it?
WHAT’s it look like?
Boxes in Boxes
Representation
Tree Representation
WHAT’s it doing?
XML metalanguage vs language
XML languages vary greatly
Why XML?
Everything is Delimited
Example Elements
Everything’s Delimited: attributes
Example Elements with Attributes
Anatomy of an Element
Sample text
Sample Document Instance
Sample (simplified) Tree
Everything’s Delimited: comments
Well-formedness
Multiple roots
boxes-in-boxes representation
tree representation
XML (
not!
) representation
Overlap
XML (
not!
) representation
boxes
representation
tree-like representation
one solution
Validity
Some XML plusses and minusses
Introduction to XML
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