XML Basics

Posted by : Sudhir Chekuri Thursday, 10 March 2016

XML stands for EXtensible Markup Language.
XML was designed to store and transport data.
XML was designed to be both human- and machine-readable.
.xml is the extension for xml documents.

Creating XML document

The following data can be written in xml format as shown below.

Data:

Note

To: Tove
From: Jani
Happy weekend

XML Format:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<note>
  <to>Tove</to>
  <from>Jani</from>
  <heading>Reminder</heading>
  <body>Happy weekendbody>
</note>

XML Example to store books information

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<bookstore>

<book category="cooking">
    <title lang="en">Everyday Italian</title>
    <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author>
    <year>2005</year>
    <price>30.00</price>
</book>

<book category="children">
    <title lang="en">Harry Potter</title>
    <author>J K. Rowling</author>
    <year>2005</year>
    <price>29.99</price>
</book>

<book category="web">
    <title lang="en">XQuery Kick Start</title>
    <author>James McGovern</author>
    <author>Per Bothner</author>
    <author>Kurt Cagle</author>
    <author>James Linn</author>
    <author>Vaidyanathan Nagarajan</author>
    <year>2003</year>
    <price>49.99</price>
</book>

<book category="web" cover="paperback">
    <title lang="en">Learning XML</title>
    <author>Erik T. Ray</author>
    <year>2003</year>
    <price>39.95</price>
</book>

</bookstore>