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21<h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1>
22<h2>XML</h2>
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87<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">XML is a standard</a> for
88markup-based structured documents. Here is <a name="example">an example XML
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90<pre>&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot;?&gt;
91&lt;EXAMPLE prop1=&quot;gnome is great&quot; prop2=&quot;&amp;amp; linux too&quot;&gt;
92 &lt;head&gt;
93 &lt;title&gt;Welcome to Gnome&lt;/title&gt;
94 &lt;/head&gt;
95 &lt;chapter&gt;
96 &lt;title&gt;The Linux adventure&lt;/title&gt;
97 &lt;p&gt;bla bla bla ...&lt;/p&gt;
98 &lt;image href=&quot;linus.gif&quot;/&gt;
99 &lt;p&gt;...&lt;/p&gt;
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102<p>The first line specifies that it's an XML document and gives useful
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107it ends with <code>/&gt;</code> rather than with <code>&gt;</code>. Note
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109closed by ending the tag with <code>/&gt;</code>.</p>
110<p>XML can be applied sucessfully to a wide range of uses, from long term
111structured document maintenance (where it follows the steps of SGML) to
112simple data encoding mechanisms like configuration file formatting (glade),
113spreadsheets (gnumeric), or even shorter lived documents such as WebDAV where
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