Summary

This chapter is a simple review of XML. It is meant to serve as a primer for you to get up to speed in dealing with the technologies that use XML. These technologies are covered throughout the rest of this book.

This chapter looked at the basics of XML, its syntax, and the rules that go into building XML documents. In addition, this chapter reviewed how to build an XML document and to view it in the IE or Firefox.

Finally, this chapter explained how to use namespaces with XML documents. The next chapter covers building and working with XML documents using a number of different developer tools.