XML in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

Inline Elements

Setting the display to inline , the default value, places the element in the next available position from left to right, much as each word in this paragraph is positioned. (The exact direction can change for right-to-left languages like Hebrew or top-to-bottom languages like traditional Chinese.) The text may be wrapped from one line to the next if necessary, but there won’t be any hard line breaks between each inline element. In Examples Example 13-1 and Example 13-2, the quantity, step, person, city, and state elements were all formatted as inline. This didn’t need to be specified explicitly because it’s the default.