XMLRésuméLibrary: User Guide

Glossary

attribute

Attributes provide additional information about element that they appear in. They take the form of name-value pairs in the element. The emphasized parts of this example are attributes:

<author name="a.kernighan">
<resume id="r25a4">
element

An element of an XML document that defines an “object”, such as <resume> or <firstname>. HTML tags are examples of elements. Additionally, elements can have attributes.