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A conceptual view of XML

An XML document is an ordered, labeled tree:

A tree view of the XML recipe collection:

xml tree

The tree structure of a document can be examined in the Explorer and Mozilla browsers.

In addition, XML trees may contain other kinds of leaf nodes:

Unfortunately, XML is not as simple as it could be, and there is still no agreement on XML tree terminology :-(

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