13. XML Element Relationships

Elements within an XML document have relationships. These relations can be described as parents and children.

Example 13.1 XML Document with Element Names Describing Relationships

<parentelement>
	<childelement1>An element value.</childelement1>
	<childelement2>An element value.</childelement2>
</parentelement>

Example 13.1 Summary

parentelement is the root element
childelement1 and childelement2 are child elements of the element parentelement
parentelement is the parent element of elements childelement1 and childelement2
childelement1 and childelement2 are siblings (or sister elements) because they have the same parent