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SVG for Web Developers
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SVG for Web Developers

by Ellen Pearlman, Lorien House
December 2002
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
464 pages
8h 34m
English
Pearson
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XML and SVG

We've talked a lot about how SVG is written in XML, based on XML, etc., and you're probably wondering whether you need to know XML to write or edit SVG code. In fact, SVG is a type of XML, and knowing a bit of XML document structure and syntax will help you to understand the logic, conventions, and limitations you might encounter in SVG. In this chapter, we give you a little taste of XML. If you really get interested, we go further into XML in Chapter 10.

So, what is XML? XML is an extensible and flexible markup language. What does that mean? Let's find out.

WHAT IS MARKUP?

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) is an example of a markup language that you may be familiar with. In an HTML document, if you run across something that looks ...

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