Declaring the Data Island

Declaring an XML Data Island is very simple.  The first step is to declare the block of XML.  This is done using the <XML> and </XML> tags.  Everything contained within the <XML> block must adhere to standard XML rules, including naming conventions and well-formedness.

The syntax is as follows:

<XML ID=”identifier”>
<root>
	... XML content ...
</root>
</XML>

The value of the ID parameter “identifier” is a unique name that you specify.  It is through this unique name that you reference the XML Data Island through your client side script.