Allows the tags to describe what the content is. That is all the xml tags actually do.

In our basic example, we are eventually going to build a little navigation system therefore I used the tags menu, items and description respectively to accurately represent what the tags contain.

Let us now turn our attention to the JavaScript that will allow us to load an xml file into an existing document. In case you are not clear, we are importing an XML Document into an existing HTML document. That is our immediate goal and forms much of the basis of what follows later on. It is worth paying attention to and going into some detail.