In an XML data file, each <record> element has two basic attributes, id and model, and contains <field> elements that assign values to each column. As mentioned before, the id attribute corresponds to the record's external identifier and the model attribute to the target model. The <field> elements have a few different ways to assign values. Let's look at them in detail.
Defining records in XML
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