an element which is part of another, and a parent element is an element which has children
In an Extensible Markup Language (XML) tree structure, the element contained by another element, which is called the parent element.
An element nested inside another (parent) element. For example: parent_element child_element /child_element /parent_element
An element contained by another element in an XML tree structure.
Any element positioned one level deeper in the tree than its parent.
An element that is wholly contained within another, which is referred to as its parent element. For example ParentChild/Child/Parent illustrates a child element nested within its parent element.
An element contained by the current element, with no intervening containers.