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Root element - Definition and Overview |
| Related Words: Acidity, Addend, Adjunct, Agent, Air, Alkali, Alkalinity, Americium, Anion, Antacid, Antilogarithm, Argument, Article, Aspect, Astatine, Atmosphere, Atom, Autecology, Base, Basic, Basis, Berkelium |
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Each XML document has one, and exactly one single root element.
This element encloses all following elements and is therefore the parent element to all the other elements. The end-tag of the child element is always before the end-tag of the parent element - this is called nested elements.
<parent>
<child>
</child>
</parent>
If the end-tag of a parent element occurs before the end-tag of the child element this is improperly nested and illegal in XML.
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