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Asked: 2026-05-19T03:22:14+00:00

I’m looking for somewhere that has a list of all XML tags, with their

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I’m looking for somewhere that has a list of all XML tags, with their properties, and the definitions of those properties (i.e. what they affect/do).

I figured MSDN, W3C, or even here on Stack Overflow would have this somewhere, but I couldn’t find it in either place, as well as various others. And it may be that I’m looking in the wrong spot on these sites or just not searching in the way that would give me what I’m looking for, but I’ve done all that I know to do.

Are there any links that give a listing of XML tags and their sub-properties/respective definitions?

More specifically, I was given some example XML on this question that I asked previously, and the long and short of it is this: I’m trying to integrate some code metrics software in an automated build in TFS 2010, and I’m really close to doing so–it’s just a matter of incorporating the right XML to point to this code metrics software. But through this whole process I’ve learned that I have no clue what many of the XML tags/properties are actually doing. Some of them are self-explanatory, but others not so much.

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  1. Editorial Team

    There is no authoritative source of all XML tags.

    XML means Extensible Markup Language. It is a way of annotating text so that machines can share information.

    There are many (thousands? millions?) of schemas, each of which describes a different vocabulary.

    You can talk about the set of allowed elements (tags) and attributes (properties) for a given vocabulary only. For example, Visual Studio stores much of its configuration and project information in XML files, but each type has a different schema, so therefore a different set of tags.

    Often in addition to the schema, there is some sort of documentation which explains the usage of the various elements and their attributes.

    XML can be used for many purposes; some include programming languages (e.g. XSLT), configuration files, documents (Word, Excel, and Powerpoint files now are all XML files zipped into packages) and log files.

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