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An XML document is encoded as a linear string of characters
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It begins with a special processing instruction
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Element occurrences are marked by start- and
end-tags
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The characters < and & are Magic and
must always be "escaped"
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Comments are delimited by
<!-- and -->
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CDATA sections are delimited by
<![CDATA[ and ]]>
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Attribute name/value pairs are supplied on
the start-tag and may be given in any order
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Entity references are
delimited by & and ;
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