Using XML Data Islands

As of version 5 in Internet Explorer, you can also use XML data islands to actually embed XML inside HTML pages. Internet Explorer supports an HTML <XML> element (which is not part of the HTML standard) that you can simply enclose an XML document inside, like this:

<XML ID="greeting"> 
    <DOCUMENT>
        <GREETING>Hi there XML!</GREETING>
    </DOCUMENT>
</XML>

The Internet Explorer <XML> element has some attributes worth noting:

  • ID— The ID with which you can refer to the <XML> element in code. Set to an alphanumeric string.

  • NS— The URI of the XML namespace used by the XML content. Set to a URI.

  • PREFIX— Namespace prefix of the XML contents. Set to an alphanumeric string.

  • SRC— Source for the XML document, if the document is external. ...

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