PHP XML

Abstract

At the simplest level XML is structured text. We are surrounded by structured text. This book is structured text, as it contains chapters, sub-headings, and paragraphs. A letter is structured text, as it typically contains a date, salutation, and paragraphs. Each section of a book or letter is defined by the structure of that document. To make the structure visible, each of these sections can be noted with markup tags (similar to HTML). The tags used to mark up the document are the basics of XML. XML is a way of writing the structured text in a common human and machine-readable format.