XML Files

XML files in VisDic consist of tags and their values. Value of the TAG tag is enclosed in strings <TAG> and </TAG>. Tags can be nested, which means that each tag can contain another tag. White characters like spaces, tabs and new-lines at the start or at the end of each tag value are trimmed. However, XML files parsed by VisDic are quite different from the common ones in these points:

• XML dictionaries contain entries. Each entry is in fact represented by one small XML file. There is no tag enclosing the whole dictionary.
• XML tag has no attributes. However, every attribute can be substitued as follows:
  <TAG ATTRIBUTE="value_of_attribute">value_of_tag</TAG>
  <TAG>value_of_tag<ATTRIBUTE>value_of_attribute</ATTRIBUTE></TAG>
• <, >, & and \ are represented by \<, \>, & and \\ respectively, instead of &lt;, &gt;, &amp; and \.