The Prolog and The Body

As we mentioned earlier, all documents are made up of a prolog and a body. The document prolog contains the XML Declaration and the document body contains the actual marked up document. Recall from previous sections that we had developed a CONTACTS XML document that looked something like the following:

        <!--Beginning of prolog-->

<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone = "yes"?>

        <!--End of prolog-->
        <!--Beginning of body-->

<CONTACTS>

<CONTACT>
<NAME>Gunther Birznieks</NAME>
<EMAIL>gunther@bobsfishstore.com</EMAIL>
<PHONE>662-9999</PHONE>
</CONTACT>

<CONTACT>
<NAME>Susan Czigany</NAME>
<EMAIL>susan@eudora.org</EMAIL>
<PHONE>555-1234</PHONE>
</CONTACT>

</CONTACTS>

      <!--End of body-->

What we did not say earlier was that the prolog also holds the DTD.

Introducing the Valid XML Document and the DTD
Introduction to XML For Web Developers | Table of Contents
The Basic DTD