Also, there are just a few tools available, and they are immature. DTDs gives definition to different types of documents. For example, a company's product order form is a different document than a legal document. Parser A piece of code that takes an XML document, reads and interprets it and shows it as a navigable object to the application. How the document is marked up so it can be displayed.
Tags format the data in the document.
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