Datasheet

<country>Burma</country>

<region>Australasia</region>

<country>Australia</country>

<region>Caribbean</region>

<country>Bahamas</country>

<country>Barbados</country>

</regions>

6. When executed in a browser, the result will look as shown in Figure 1-4.

Figure 1-4: Creating a simple XML document

How It Works

You opened a text editor and created an XML document file. The XML document begins with the XML

tag, identifying the version of XML is use. Next you added the root node called

<regions>. All XML

documents must have a single root node. Next you added four

<region> nodes representing four

regions into the root node. Next you added countries into the four different regions. Last, you viewed

the XML document in your browser.

Embedding XML in HTML Pages (Data Islands)

XML documents can also be displayed in a browser using an XML data island. An XML data island is an

XML document (with its data) directly or indirectly embedded inside an HTML page. An XML docu-

ment can be embedded inline inside an HTML page using the HTML

<XML> tag. It can also be referenced

with an HTML

SRC attribute.

What Is XML?

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