8.2. Vocabulary

When working with XML documents, you will encounter several terms that might be unfamiliar. The following example shows an XML document that is an XHTML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE html
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>XML Example</title>
  </head>
  <body background="bg.png">
    <p>
      Moved to <a href="http://example.org/">example.org</a>.
      <br />
      foo &amp; bar
    </p>
  </body>
</html>

The first line is the XML declaration; it specifies the XML version and the XML file encoding. Notice that the line starts with <?. This combination of characters can ...

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