Datasheet

Both of these examples look as the screen does in Figure 1-5.

Figure 1-5: Using the XML tag to embed XML data islands into an HTML page

There are always different ways to do things.

Try It Out XML Data Islands

The XML document that follows represents the three regions and six countries created in the Try It Out

exercise presented earlier in this chapter:

<?xml version=”1.0”?>

<region>Africa</region>

<country>Zambia</country>

<country>Zimbabwe</country>

<country>Burma</country>

<region>Australasia</region>

<country>Australia</country>

<region>Caribbean</region>

<country>Bahamas</country>

<country>Barbados</country>

</regions>

Here we will create a simple HTML page, containing the preceding XML document as a data island.

Assume that the XML document is called countries.xml. Don’t worry about a full path name. The exam-

ple shown in Figure 1-5 and its preceding matching XML data island HTML pages give you an example

to base this task on.

Create the HTML page as follows:

1. Use an appropriate editor to create a text file.

What Is XML?

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