Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 19 99

Foil 24 Syntactic details

From An Introduction to XML Basic Information Track Computational Science Course CPS616 -- Spring Semester 1999. by Nancy McCracken,Ozgur Balsoy, Tom Scavo
1 XML tags are case-sensitive. (<H1> is not the same as <h1>.
2 White space in the data between tags is relevant. But within the markup itself and within quoted attribute values, white space is normalized (removed).
3 XML allows you to specify different character set encodings. <?xml version=`1.0' encoding=`UTF-8' ?>
4 Predefined entities:
  • < replaced by <
  • & &
  • > >
  • ' `
  • " "
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