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Everything's Delimited: elements
Text is divided into
elements
(the
nouns
of the encoding —
content objects
).
Elements are delimited by
tags
: a start-tag at the beginning, and an end-tag at the end.
Start-tags are delimited by
<
and
>
.
End-tags are delimited by
</
and
>
.
Special case: for an empty element start- and end- tags are combined — delimited by
<
and
/>
.
Introduction to XML
© 2006 Kevin S. Hawkins, Syd Bauman, and the Brown Women Writers Project