XML: The Rules
The rules for XML:
- Documents must be well-formed.
- Documents may be valid, that is conforming to the additional constraints provided in a DTD or
schema.
Well-formed documents must meet a specified set of criteria.
- There must be at least one element. The first element in the document is known as the “root
element".
- All tags must be properly nested.
- XML is case sensitive.
- There may be only one root element
- Attribute values must be in quotation marks.
- Elements may not have duplicate attribute names.
- Element and attribute names must obey XML naming rules: begin with a letter or an underscore
and contain no spaces.
The rules for XML:
- Documents must be well-formed.
- Documents may be valid, that is conforming to the additional constraints provided in a DTD or
schema.
Well-formed documents must meet a specified set of criteria.
- There must be at least one element. The first element in the document is known as the “root
element".
- All tags must be properly nested.
- XML is case sensitive.
- There may be only one root element
- Attribute values must be in quotation marks.
- Elements may not have duplicate attribute names.
- Element and attribute names must obey XML naming rules: begin with a letter or an underscore
and contain no spaces.
XML Rules
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