Datasheet

2. All you do is add an attribute name-value pair to each opening <country> tag:

<country currency=”Kwacha”>Zambia</country>

3. The final XML document looks something like this:

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

<region>Africa</region>

<country currency=”Kwacha”>Zambia</country>

<country currency=”Zimbabwe Dollars”>Zimbabwe</country>

<country>Burma</country>

<region>Australasia</region>

<country currency=”Dollars”>Australia</country>

<region>Caribbean</region>

<country currency=”Dollars”>Bahamas</country>

<country currency=”Dollars”>Barbados</country>

</regions>

4. Figure 1-9 shows the result when executed in a browser.

Figure 1-9: Adding attributes to elements in an XML document

How It Works

All you did was to edit an XML document containing the XML tag, a single root node, and various

regions of the world that contained some of their respective countries. You then proceeded to add cur-

rency attributes into some of the countries.

What Is XML?

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