XML-LANG: Markup Types

• Elements - start-tags, end-tags, empty tags

  • <joke>Take my XML. Please.<applause/></joke>

• Attributes - name-value pairs in tags

  • <warning class=“emergency”>

• Entity References - special chars, macros, external elements

  • " or &4k-logo;

• Comments - not passed along to application

  • <!-- Not allowed two dashes before end of comment. -->

• Processing Instructions - passed along to application

  • <?pi-target-name pi-data?>

• CDATA Sections - parser ignores markup for Character Data

  • *p = &q; b = (i <= 3);

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