Basic XML knowledge 9 (XML data island)

With ie5.0 or a later version, XML data can be embedded into HTML pages in the form of data islands.

Embed XML data in HTML pages

You can embed XML data into an HTML page using the unofficial Standard <XML> tag.

XML data can be embedded into HTML pages as follows:

<xml id="note"> <note> <to>Tove</to> <from>Jani</from>

Or embed an external XML file as follows:

<xml id="note" src="note.xml"> </xml>

Note that the <XML> mark is an HTML element, not an XML element.

Data Binding

XML data island can be bound to HTML elements (such as tables ).

In the following example, an XML data island (ID = cdcat) is loaded from an external XML document. An HTML table is bound to this data island. The span elements in an HTML table are bound to each other using the dataworks attribute and the XML elements corresponding to the XML document.