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[nycphp-talk] Is this XML valid?

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Sat Sep 19 01:33:13 EDT 2009


David Roth wrote:
> I've been using simplexml to parse XML and so far the XML I've had to 
> deal with has been pretty straight forward. Then I run across this XML 
> which I don't know what to call it or how it should be handled properly.
>
> Here is a fragment of what I'm talking about:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" ?>
> <document type="db download">
>
> <packages total_weight="15.8" total_packages="1">
> <package length="147" width="5" height="5" weight="15.8"/>
> </packages>
>
> I was expecting each attribute and node to have it's own <> and </>, 
> and the data not to be surround by double-quotes or am I missing 
> something?
>
> Thanks!
>
> David
>
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That's valid. it's just using short hand attributes instead of nested nodes.

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