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Everything's Delimited: attributes
Elements have attributes (sort of as nouns have adjectives).
Attributes have names:
rend
,
type
,
id
,
n
,
target
Attributes have values:
slant(italic)
,
chapter
,
P0001
Attributes are specified in the start (or empty) tag
The attribute name is preceded by whitespace and followed by
=
You can have whitespace before the
=
The attribute value is delimited by either single or double quotation marks (i.e.,
"
or
'
characters —
no curly quotes!
).
Introduction to XML
© 2006 Kevin S. Hawkins, Syd Bauman, and the Brown Women Writers Project