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SUMMIT 8800 REPORTING 07
Figure 149 Configure Ethernet reports, page selection
7 .2 .5 Configure XML Reports
7 .2 .5 .1 Background
XML or Extensible Markup Language is markup language based on a standard XML 1.0 specifi-
cation. XML is focused on documents but is more generally used for structured data. The major
advantage is that it can be used to exchange data which can be used in a wide variety of pro-
grams, such as accounting systems, Excel and Word.
XML documents are designed to be read by both humans and machines. They are based on nor-
mal Unicode text and can be used in any language. A document is divided into markup, tags and
content. Markup has the format <xxxxxx> and surrounds content. Tags is markup that defines
the start and end of content:
• Start tags, e.g. <volume>
• End tags, e.g. </volume>
• Empty-element tags, e.g. <line break />
Tags with their contents are called elements. Elements may be empty, may contain one start
tag/content/stop tag but may itself contain other elements. It should be noted that in order for
the report to be valid XML the entire report must be enclosed within one element: