Datasheet

Try It Out Creating a Simple XML Document

The data shown below represents three regions containing six countries:

Africa Zambia

Africa Zimbabwe

Asia Burma

Australasia Australia

Caribbean Bahamas

Caribbean Barbados

Here, you are going to create a single hierarchy XML document. The example shown in Figure 1-3, and

its preceding matching XML data, gives you an example to base this task on.

Create the XML document as follows:

1. Use an appropriate editor to create the XML document text file (Notepad in Windows).

2. Create the XML tag:

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

3. Create the root tag first. The data is divided up as countries listed within continents (regions).

Countries are contained within regions. There are multiple regions so there has to be a tag,

which is a parent tag of the multiple regions. If there was a single region there could be a single

<region> tag as the root node. So create a root node such as <regions>, indicating multiple

regions. The XML document now looks something like this:

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

</regions>

4. Now add each region in as a child of the <regions> tag. It should look something like this:

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

<region>Africa</region>

<region>Australasia</region>

<region>Caribbean</region>

</regions>

5. Next you can add the individual countries into their respective regions by creating individual

<country> tags:

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

<region>Africa</region>

<country>Zambia</country>

<country>Zimbabwe</country>

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