Lecture 3 - XML

Question 1

Describe XML text?

Answer 1

XML has only one “basic” type – text

•XML text is called PCDATA
–(for parsed character data)
•It uses a 16-bit encoding

Question 2

What is CDATA?

Answer 2

Hold character data that remains unparsed by the XML Processor

Question 3

What is mixed content?

Answer 3

1. An element may contain a mixture of sub-elements and PCDATA
2. Mixed-content data is not typically generated from databases
3. It is needed for consistency with HTML

Question 4

What is the header tag?

Answer 4

•You can leave out the encoding attribute and the processor will use the UTF-8 default