VirtualMV/XML/Rules/Content

Six golden rules of XML
1. All XML documents begin with

2. All XML documents must have one(and only one) root element

3. All XML elements must have a closing tag

4. XML tags are case sensitive

5. All XML elements must be properly nested

6. Attribute values must always be quoted

Well-formed versus Valid

 * A "Well Formed" XML document has correct XML syntax
 * A "Valid" XML document also conforms to a DTD or XSD

Some features

 * Comments


 * Adding data that is not to be parsed (e.g. inserting HTML into an XML file


 * White space


 * Namespaces: Allow you to cope with merging two XML files which have the same tags but for different purposes (e.g. Merging a Staff file with a student file.


 * Escape Characters