XML Elements

By: Prof. Dr. Fazal Rehman | Last updated: March 3, 2022

What are XML elements? An XML element is everything from the XML element’s starting tag to the XML element’s ending tag. An element can contain:
  • Starting tag
  • Attributes
  • Text
  • Closing tag
  • other elements
  • or a combination of all things mentioned above.
Example:
<author category=”literature”> sameed </author>
In this example; <author> is the starting tag sameed is the text Category is the attribute/property Literature is the value of the attribute. </author> is the closing of the tag. XML Naming Rules:
  • Element name is case-sensitive:
  • Element name must start with a underscore or alphabets.
  • Element name cannot start with the letters XML/xML/xml/Xml, etc.
  • Element name cannot contain spaces
  • Element name can contain digits,  letter, hyphens, periods and underscore. 
  • Element name can have any name except xml.
   

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