XML 1.0 tutorial

XML is described in XML 1.0 standard. In this tutorial basic XML features are demonstrated on many examples.

Zvon UNICODE reference can be used to check if a character can be used in names of XML elements and attributes.

Introduction

• Minimal number of elements
• Root element
• Tag names
• Element nesting
• Element content
• Name characters
• Attributes
• Escape of < and &
• Escape of >, ', and "
• Comments
• Processing instructions
• CDATA
• XML Declaration