A Song Description in XML

<?xml version="1.0">
<SONG>
  <TITLE>Hot Cop</TITLE>
  <COMPOSER>Jacques Morali</COMPOSER>
  <COMPOSER>Henri Belolo</COMPOSER>
  <COMPOSER>Victor Willis</COMPOSER>
  <PRODUCER>Jacques Morali</PRODUCER>
  <PUBLISHER>PolyGram Records</PUBLISHER>
  <LENGTH>6:20</LENGTH>
  <YEAR>1978</YEAR>
  <ARTIST>Village People</ARTIST>
</SONG>

• Documents are composed primarily of elements

• An element is delimited by a start tag and a matching end tag:

  <COMPOSER>Jacques Morali</COMPOSER>

  • Start tag <COMPOSER>

  • Contents "Jacques Morali"

  • End tag </COMPOSER>

• Elements can contain other elements:

  <SONG>
    <TITLE>Hot Cop</TITLE>
    <COMPOSER>Jacques Morali</COMPOSER>
    <COMPOSER>Henri Belolo</COMPOSER>
    <COMPOSER>Victor Willis</COMPOSER>
    <PRODUCER>Jacques Morali</PRODUCER>
    <PUBLISHER>PolyGram Records</PUBLISHER>
    <LENGTH>6:20</LENGTH>
    <YEAR>1978</YEAR>
    <ARTIST>Village People</ARTIST>
  </SONG>
  

• Every document has exactly one root element, also known as the document element, that completely contains all other elements.