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Well formed and valid XML documents

Well formed

A freeform xml document is well defined if
  • Each start tag has an associated end tag, or it is an empty tag
  • attribute values in quotes
  • elements are nested
  • no markup characters (< , ]]> , &)
See also this tutorial.

valid

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