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[nycphp-talk] Is this XML valid?

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Sat Sep 19 20:48:49 EDT 2009


Hi David:

> <?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>

That's not well-formed (valid) because there should be a closing 
</document> tag at the end.


> 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?

As others have mentioned, XML has "elements" (the stuff using <> and </>) 
and "attributes" (the stuff inside the opening or empty element that use 
the name="value" format).

--Dan

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