Everything is Delimited

Text is divided into elements (the nouns of the encoding — content objects).

• elements by start-tags and end-tags

  <heading></heading>

• start-tags by < … >

  <>

• end-tags by </ … >

  </>

• special case: short-hand for an element with no content

  </>]]>

A Hurried Introduction to XML, slide 6 of 24

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