Chapter 2. XML Tutorial
There's an often-quoted excerpt from a letter by Blaise Pascal that reads, “I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.” When I started planning this book, everyone questioned my intention to include a single-chapter XML tutorial. The most common observation was this: “If people (like you) have written entire books explaining XML, what good can you do in a single chapter?”
My answer to that rests in my belief that XML is a simple technology at heart. One of the reasons I was so attracted to it in the first place was that it could be grasped in its entirety in a single afternoon. It is powerful, flexible, and simple. There is no way I can fully cover every intricate detail of XML, ...
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