What Is the Difference Between a Tag and an Element?

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In some texts about XML, the terms tag and element seem to be used interchangeably. Do they mean the same thing, or are do these terms represent different things?

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HTML elements are defined by a starting tag, may contain some content and a closing tag whereas Tags are the starting and ending parts of an HTML element.

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<address category = "residence">
    <name>name content</name>
    <company>company content</company>
    <phone>(011) 123-4567</phone>
</address>

Here <address> is an element which has attribute category

Start and end tags of an element must be identical.

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