Here’s the small example of XML.




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• The first line in the document – the XML declaration – defines the XML version and the character encoding used in the document. In this case the document conforms to the 1.0 specification of XML and uses the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1/West European) character set.

XML

• All XML elements must have a closing tag

• With XML, it is illegal to omit the closing tag.

• In HTML some elements do not have to have a closing tag. The following code is legal in HTML:

This is a paragraph

This is another paragraph

• In XML all elements must have a closing tag, like this:

This is a paragraph

This is another paragraph

• Note: You might have noticed from the previous example that the XML declaration