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Types of XML content

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Types of XML content

- [Instructor] In this chapter we're going to learn about the basic rules of XML. We'll start of by learning about the contents of XML files. Were we'll discuss the types of content that you'll find in XML data. Then we'll investigate proper XML syntax. Things like nesting rules, how attributes work and other things you need to know to make sure that your XML files parse properly. Next we'll see how to make validate XML documents. This is something that we'll revisit later in the course when we talk about document type definitions and Excel schemas. Finally we'll wrap up with a discussion on XML namespaces. Which provide a way for you to include XML data from different sources and avoid collisions with other tag names when you do so. Let's start of by learning the contents of XML files. There are about a half dozen or so types of XML content that you'll typically run into when working with XML data. There's the XML document declaration. Elements and attributes. Comments. Character…

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