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- An XML document
is encoded as a linear string of characters
- It begins with a
special processing instruction
- Element occurrences are
marked by start- and end-tags
- The
characters < and & are Magic and must always be
"escaped"
- Comments are delimited by <!-- and
-->
- CDATA sections are delimited by <![CDATA[
and ]]>
- Attribute name/value pairs are supplied on the start-tag
and may be given in any order
- Entity references are delimited by
& and ;
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