Working with XML files

…Before we get too far into the coding for web services,…it's important to understand what XML is, and how it works.…The acronym XML stands for extensible markup language.…It is essentially designed as a light universal method of…transmitting data from computer to computer, Or from program to program.…It is completely self descriptive.…Tags are defined by the author of the…XML document, and must be interpreted by the reader.…

There are however, a few basic requirements for a valid XML document.…So, I will go into Notepad++, and demonstrate…a few of the basic principles of XML coding.…The syntax for tags is a less than sign,…followed by the name of the tag, followed by…a greater than sign.…For example, what we have here, message could be considered a tag.…Whenever a tag is placed in a document, all text after that tag is…considered to be a part of the tag at least into replace a closing tag.…

The closing tag is exactly the same as the opening…tag, but you add a slash right before a name.…So, to close this message tag, I would type in slash, and…