Moving to XML

Overall Structure

• Prolog
  • The XML declaration
    • <?xml version="1.0"?>
    • declares that this is XML
    • strictly, not optional
  • The Document Type Declaration
    • <!DOCTYPE meeting PUBLIC "-//WEFT//DTD MEETING 0.1//EN" "meeting.dtd">
    • says what dialect of XML this is
    • optional
  • Processing instructions
  • Comments
• Root element
  • Just an element, like any other
  • Just exactly one.

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