Moving to XML

Elements [i]

Syntactically, an element is what is delimited by its tags.

• An opening tag comprises a left angle bracket <, the name of the element, optionally some attribute-value pairs, and a closing angle bracket >
  • <meeting id="June Board Meeting">
• A closing tag comprises a left angle bracket <, a slash /, the name of the element, and a closing angle bracket >
  • </meeting>
• An empty tag comprises a left angle bracket <, the name of the element, optionally some attribute-value pairs, a slash /, and a closing angle bracket >; it is just shorthand for an opening tag immediately followed by the closing tag with nothing in between.

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