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Validation is a process by which an XML document is validated. An XML document is said to be valid if its contents match with the elements, attributes and associated document type…

Encoding is the process of converting unicode characters into their equivalent binary representation. When the XML processor reads an XML document, it encodes the document depending on the type of encoding.…

This chapter describes the Processing Instructions (PIs). As defined by the XML 1.0 Recommendation, "Processing instructions (PIs) allow documents to contain instructions for applications. PIs are not part of the character…

In this chapter, we will discuss whitespace handling in XML documents. Whitespace is a collection of spaces, tabs, and newlines. They are generally used to make a document more readable. XML document…

In this chapter, we will discuss XML CDATA section. The term CDATA means, Character Data. CDATA is defined as blocks of text that are not parsed by the parser, but are…

This chapter describes the XML Character Entities. Before we understand the Character Entities, let us first understand what an XML entity is. As put by W3 Consortium the definition of an entity is…

This chapter explains how comments work in XML documents. XML comments are similar to HTML comments. The comments are added as notes or lines for understanding the purpose of an XML code.…

This chapter describes the XML attributes. Attributes are part of XML elements. An element can have multiple unique attributes. Attribute gives more information about XML elements. To be more precise, they…

Let us learn about one of the most important part of XML, the XML tags. XML tags form the foundation of XML. They define the scope of an element in XML. They…

An XML document is a basic unit of XML information composed of elements and other markup in an orderly package. An XML document can contains wide variety of data. For example, database of numbers,…