Terminology

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DTD
DTDs
Document Type Definition, a method for specifying valid characteristics (elements and attributes) for an XML document.
IDE
Interactive Development Environment
UTF-8
A character encoding scheme for representing Unicode Character code points with the minimum necessary bytes. The UTF-8 encoding of 7-bit printable ASCII characters is identical to the ASCII encoding.
XML-aware editor
An XML-aware editor has programmed-in behavior to assist users in creating and editing XML documents. This usually includes things like auto-indenting, automatically adding closing tags for each opening tag you type, and such. Many also provide additional capabilities, like being able to read coded information in DTDs or Schema files and being able to suggest valid attributes and values for auto-completion.