Interpreting the Content
You can also define the content in any manner you see fit. In our sample document, we added a CellContent element. You could have added numerous elements throughout the document to identify the content of each section. You could also have added attributes to existing elements. For example, you could have defined the ul element as follows:
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These additional attributes and elements can then be used by an application to catalog the content of your documents. Imagine using these tags to build the search indexes for your Web site.
These extra tags and attributes also make the document much more readable to humans. When you are designing a Web site, you can define the content of different elements rather than just drawing what the page should look like. Certain components, such as the navigation bars at the top and sides of the page and the footer section, are likely to be shared by many pages. These components can be identified and can be added to the standard template. The developer will need to change only the elements on the page that differ from one page to the next.