Advanced Markup

In this section, we will cover advanced topics of XML markup like entities, mixed and content specifications, and the remaining attribute types. We begin with how and why to add character references to your XML document.

Character References

XML uses the Unicode character set. Unicode is a standard that allows characters from all existing, and even ancient, languages. If your keyboard does not have a key for a particular international character you can insert that character into an XML document using a character reference.

Character Representation

It is important to distinguish between the varying facets of representing characters in documents. Each definition represents one facet of such representation:

  • Character— A letter in ...

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