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What does it mean to say that XML is well-formed?

April 26, 2017mean well-formed XML

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What does it mean to say that XML is well-formed?

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An XML document is said to be well-formed if it meets the requirements for well-formedness as defined by the W3C. Since this is a technical definition, it is possible to have a computer program check whether an XML document has this property. The reason well-formedness is important is that it greatly eases automatic machine parsing of a document.