XML is a markup language that looks a lot like HTML. An XML document is plain text and contains tags delimited by < and >
HTML list that is not valid XML
<ul>
<li>list item one
<li>list item two
<li>list item three
</ul>
HTML list that is valid XML
<ul>
<li>list item one</li>
<li>list item two</li>
<li>list item three</li>
</ul>
Parsing an XML Document using PHP5
<?php
$channel =<<<_XML_
<channel>
<title>What's For Today's Dinner<title>
<link>https://menu.example.com/<link>
<description>Choose what to eat :</description>
</channel>
_XML_;
$xml = simplexml_load_string($channel);
print "The $xml->title channel is available at $xml->link. ";
print "The description is \"$xml->description\"";
?>
It will produce the following result:
The What's For Today's Dinner channel is available at https://menu.example.com/. The description is "Choose what to eat :"
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