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</EXAMPLE></pre><p>The first line specifies that
it is an XML document and gives useful information about its encoding.
Then the rest of the document is a text format whose structure is specified
by tags between brackets. <strong>Each tag opened has to be
closed</strong>. XML is pedantic about this. However, if a tag is
empty (no content), a single tag can serve as both the opening and closing
tag if it ends with />
rather than with
>
. Note that, for example, the image tag has no content
(just an attribute) and is closed by ending the tag with
/>
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to a wide range of tasks, ranging from long term structured document
maintenance (where it follows the steps of SGML) to simple data encoding
mechanisms like configuration file formatting (glade), spreadsheets
(gnumeric), or even shorter lived documents such as WebDAV where it is used
to encode remote calls between a client and a
server.</p><p><a href=“bugs.html”>Daniel
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