XML elements can have attributes, just like HTML. Attributes provide additional information about an element. XML Attributes In HTML, attributes provide additional information about elements: <img src="computer.gif"> <a href="demo.asp"> Attributes often provide information that is not a part of the data. In the example below, the file type is irrelevant to the data, but can be important to the software that wants to manipulate the element: <file type="gif">computer.gif</file> XML Attributes Must be Quoted Attribute values must always be quoted. Either single or double quotes can be used. For a person's sex, the person element can be written like this: <person sex="female"> or like this: <person sex='female'> If the attribute value itself contains double quotes you can use single quotes, like in this example: <gangster name='George "Shotgun" Ziegler'> or...