XML - Element

About

Each XML document contains one or more elements, the boundaries of which are either delimited by:

• start-tags and end-tags,
• or, for empty elements, by an empty-element tag.

<myElementName></myElementName>
<empty/> <!-- Empty Element -->

The element structure of an XML document may, for validation purposes, be constrained using declarations.

element =

]] + content + ]]

Property

Each element has:

• name (full or local)
• a type,
• may have a set of attribute specifications,
• and a content

The full name of an element consists of its local_name and its namespace URI.

Example:

<namespace:local-name>

Its name without any namespace

The Name in the start- and end-tags gives the element's type. It's sometimes called its “generic identifier” (GI).

<type></type>
<name></name>
<id></id>
<gi></gi>

See XML - Attribute

See XML - Element Content

XML - Empty

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