1. Diagramming the Tree Structure of an XML Document
Adapted from MSDN DevSeries: Web 105- Introduction to XML

2. { }Attributes XML Data Model XML is represented by a tree structure
nodes of the tree contain the data
Document {
Nodes or Element
<none>
Text
Text
...
}Attributes
Text
Text

3. Customer Orders XML Example
<customer_list> <!-- customer list --> <customer id=“345”> <name> <first>Jane</first> <last>Doe</last> </name> <orders> <order date=“07/16/98”/> <order date=“07/23/98”/> </orders> </customer> <customer id=“120”> …
</customer_list >
<none>

4. Customer Orders Tree Structure
root
Comment
customer list
customer
customer id id
345
120
name
orders
<none>
first
last
order
order
date
date
Jane
Doe
07/16/98
07/23/98