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 <td><h2 class="pageHeader">FusionCharts and XML</h2></td>
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 <td class="text">FusionCharts uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) to 
 create and manipulate charts. XML is a simple and structured language 
 that is easy to read and understand. In case you're not aware of XML as 
 yet, here are a few basics things to know about an XML document:
 <ul>
 <li> An XML document is a simple text file consisting of tags and data 
 associated with them.</li>
 <li>You can make up your own tags like &lt;mytag&gt;&lt;/mytag&gt; 
 to store data</li>
 <li>Every opening tag requires a matching closing tag. Like &lt;name&gt; 
 requires &lt;/name&gt;. e.g., 
 &lt;name&gt;John Doe&lt;/name&gt;. If 
 an element has no content, the opening and closing tags may be combined 
 into a single &quot;shortcut&quot; tag such as &lt;name/&gt;. 
 </li>
 <li>XML tags are case-sensitive. So &lt;name&gt; 
 should be closed with &lt;/name&gt; 
 and not &lt;/Name&gt; or 
 &lt;/NAME&gt; 
 or any other variant of the same.</li>
 <li>You can define attributes for a tag to render more details. e.g., 
 &lt;name isPetName='true'&gt;John Doe&lt;/name&gt;. 
 Here isPetName is an attribute of the 
 name element. In FusionCharts, we've 
 four types of attributes: 
 <ul>
 <li>Boolean - Attributes which can take a 0 or 1 
 value. Like &lt;graph showNames='1' &gt;</li>
 <li>Number - Attributes which take a numeric value. 
 Like &lt;graph yAxisMaxValue='200' &gt;</li>
 <li>String - Attributes which take a string value. 
 Like &lt;graph caption='My Chart' &gt;</li>
 <li>Hex Color Code - Attributes that take a hex color 
 code (without #). Like &lt;graph bgColor='FFFFDD' 
 &gt;</li>
 </ul>
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 <li>Special characters like ' (quote), &quot; (double quote), % (percentage) 
 etc are to be replaced by the XML converts. Like, the character &quot; 
 (double quote) in a string constant must be denoted as &amp;quot;. 
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 The entire FusionCharts chart is controlled by XML parameters i.e., you 
 use XML to define the cosmetic as well as functional properties for the 
 chart. There are a lot of properties that you can define for each chart 
 type. 
 However, it is not necessary to define all the attributes for a given 
 chart. For example, if you do not want to change the default setting of 
 the canvas (color, alpha etc.), you don't need to define any attributes 
 for the canvas - the default values will be assumed. Thus, each chart 
 can be generated using minimal attributes without concern for finer details. As you become more proficient in the chart attributes, you could 
 use it to create complex charts with a wide range of features and an informative 
 appearance.
 FusionCharts has a specific XML structure for each chart. Broadly, we 
 define the XML structure into following types, depending on the chart 
 type:
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 <li>Single Series Charts 
 Single Series Charts are those which depict only one set of data on 
 the chart. Like, our previous example of Monthly sales summary was a 
 single series chart, as we had just one data set (i.e., data for 1 year). 
 In that chart, we were not comparing data between two datasets (e.g., 
 monthly sales comparison between two or more years). 
 
 XML for the single series chart is the simplest to understand, as you've 
 already seen in the previous examples. 
 
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 <li>Multi-Series Charts 
 Multi-series charts are used to compare 2 or more datasets like 
 monthly comparison for 2 or more years. Under multi-series charts, we 
 can define the following subcategories: 
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 <li>Standard Multi-series Charts 
 The standard multi-series charts, like multi-series column, line, 
 area etc., are used for straightforward comparison of various datasets 
 on the chart. 
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 <li>Stacked Charts 
 Stacked charts, like stacked column, area etc., are used 
 to compare cumulative or grouped data. e.g., monthly summary of 
 sales on a chart. Say if we wanted to show which part of revenue 
 came from products and which part from services, we can use the 
 stacked column chart easily to depict the data. Each month would 
 represent a data column and the column would be divided into two 
 parts- one representing service and the other product. 
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 <li>Combination Charts 
 Combination Charts are a combination of two or more charts or y-axis. 
 
 
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 <li>Financial Charts 
 The candlestick chart is a special type of chart basically meant for plotting financial stock market data. There are four elements necessary to construct a candlestick chart, the OPEN, HIGH, LOW and CLOSE price for a given time period. 
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