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11-24-2018

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Originally Posted by rahuldaso

what is the main difference beetween html and xml?

XML is the principle of using markup - "tags" - to denote special parts of a text put into a standardised format: tags are denoted "<tagname>", etc.. (there would be other ways of marking up text, like:

Code:

This is normal text [italic=on]but[italic=off] the last word was different.

which is also using the markup-principle but is not XML.)

HTML is one very specific variety of XML, with a fixed set of tags that can occur and a fixed order of tags that have to be there:

Code:

<body>....</body>
<head>....</head>

would be an error in HTML because the head-tag has to come before the body-tag. In XML this would be perfectly OK because there is no such rule. In fact there is no list of tags which are allowed and no prescribed structure they are allowed to have like there is in HTML.

So, in short: every HTML text is a valid XML text too, but not every XML has to be calid HTML.

I hope this helps.

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xml2-config

GNOME-XML(1)							       1.1.0							      GNOME-XML(1)

NAME

       xml-config - script to get information about the installed version of GNOME-XML

SYNOPSIS

       xml-config [--prefix[=DIR]] [--libs] [--cflags] [--version] [--help]

DESCRIPTION

       xml-config  is  a  tool	that  is  used to determine the compile and linker flags that should be used to compile and link programs that use
       GNOME-XML.

OPTIONS

       xml-config accepts the following options:

       --version
	       Print the currently installed version of GNOME-XML on the standard output.  Add the --static option to print the linker flags  that
	       are necessary to statically link a GNOME-XML program.

       --libs  Print the linker flags that are necessary to link a GNOME-XML program.

       --cflags
	       Print the compiler flags that are necessary to compile a GNOME-XML program.

       --prefix=PREFIX
	       If  specified,  use  PREFIX  instead  of  the  installation  prefix that GNOME-XML was built with when computing the output for the
	       --cflags and --libs options. This option must be specified before any --libs or --cflags options.

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Fredrik Hallenberg <hallon@lysator.liu.se>, for the Debian GNU/linux system (but may be used by others).

Version 							    3 July 1999 						      GNOME-XML(1)