14. XML Element Content

An XML element content is everything within and including the starting element to the closing element. The content within an element can be of various types.

Element Content Types

• Element content
• Mixed content
• Simple content
• Empty content
• An element attributes

<rootelement>
	<childelement1 attribute1=?An attribute value.?>An element value.</childelement1>
	<childelement2>An element value.</childelement2>
	<childelement3/>
	<childelement4>
		An element value.
		<childelement4childchildelement1>
			An element value.
		</childelement4childchildelement1>
		<childelement4childchildelement2>
			An element value.
		</childelement4childchildelement2>
	</childelement4>
</rootelement>	
	

Example 14.1 Summary

• rootelement has element content, because it contains other elements
• childelement4 has mixed content because it contains both text and other
• childchildelement1 has simple content (or text content) because it contains
• childelement2 has empty content, because it carries no information
• Only the childelement1 element has attributes
• The attribute named attribute1 has the value An attribute value