XML Programming: The Ultimate Guide to Fast, Easy, and Efficient Learning of XML Programming

Introduction

Have you ever felt learning XML as a nightmare? Discouraged by the huge volumes of beginner guides? I understand the difficulty of extracting the core from a book which runs to few hundred pages. It is not very interesting to read few thousand lines for creating a simple XML document on your own. How would you feel, if I say I can do that job for you? I have read through hundreds of pages for you and will give you the ready to drink juice from the fruit.

This book is a quick and easy guide, an extract from those heavy pillow-sized books, menacingly long examples and boring high level jargons. I wrote this book keeping in mind all the difficulties I faced as a beginner and thus the extract is simple, understandable and short. 

With this brief introduction, I request your attention and welcome you to travel through the book with me.

Chapter 1 - What’s in a Markup language?

Like all human languages, computer languages are also developed for the purpose of communication. Human to computer communication, computer program to computer program communication are supported by various computer languages. Every language that is developed has a set of rules and procedures and we call them syntax. Languages can be grouped based on the type of communication they are developed for.

Markup languages were primarily designed to instruct the software that displays text;