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Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML
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Effective XML: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your XML

by Elliotte Rusty Harold
September 2003
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
7h 20m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Books like this one sometimes include complete XML documents as examples, sometimes just fragments thereof. To keep the examples correct, it's very useful if the fragments are automatically extracted from complete documents that can be validated, checked for well-formedness, and verified to be correct. This requires some way to mark off the portions of the document that will be extracted and included. Since processing instructions are ignored by validators and most other processes that don't expect to see them, they make an excellent tool for this purpose. For example, the following document uses <?begin-extract?> and <?end-extract?> processing instructions to select the checkmating move.

 <?xml version="1.0"?> <game> <move>f3</move> ...
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