period in XML tags

Question

Studying XAML now, I keep seeing XAML tags in the format Object.Attribute. For example:

 
     OutOfBrowserSettings Sh         


        

Answer 1

As far as I know, there's no specific significance for the '.' in XML. In other words, is a different and unrelated tag from . The relationship in XAML is a semantic understood by the XAML parser only.

On a separate note, the snippet in your question is not XAML; it's part of the deployment manifest for a Silverlight application. Again, though, the semantic of the '.' is understood by the manifest parser, not the XML parser.