highlight.xml

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <!DOCTYPE language SYSTEM "language.dtd"
    [
        <!-- comment line 1
             comment line 2 -->
        <!ENTITY name    "(?![0-9])[\w_:][\w.:_-]*">
        <!ENTITY entref  "&amp;(#[0-9]+|#[xX][0-9A-Fa-f]+|&name;);">
    ]>

    <!-- we need this tags or this is no valid file -->

    <element attr1="a1" attr2="2.03" attr3="&entity;">
        <sub-element/>
    </element>

    This is a pseudo XML file to test Kate's XML syntax highlighting.

    Doctype:
    	<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//SOME_DOCTYPE 0.01//EN" SYSTEM "foobar.dtd">
    	<!DOCTYPE
            HTML PUBLIC "-//SOME_DOCTYPE 0.01//EN" SYSTEM "foobar.dtd">

    Processing instruction:
    	<?php processing instruction ?>

    Comments:
    	<!-- a comment -->
    	<!-- another comment,
    	using more than one line -->

    Comment inside element:
    	<element attr="foobar">content<!-- comment --></element>

    Markup inside comment:
    	<!--
    	This is a comment!
    	<element inside_comment />
    	-->

    Empty element:
    	<empty/>
    	<empty  />

    Simple element plus content:
    	<element>some content</element>
    	<element attr="foobar">some
    		content</element>

    Namespace for elements and attributes:
    	<ns:element>content</ns:element>
    	<element ns:attr="content content">content</element>

    Elements containing allowed characters:
    	<element-dash foo="test"/>
    	<element.dot foo="test"/>

    Elements containing allowed start characters:
    	<:element foo="test"/>
    	<_element foo="test"/>

    Single quotes (the same as double quotes):
    	<element attr='content &nbsp; content'>content</element>

    Allowed Whitespace:
    	<element     attr   =   "test"  >
    		content</element>

    Entities:
    	&nbsp;
    	&#229;
    	&#xE5;
    	&#Xe5;
    	&#1048;
    	&#x6C34;
    	<element attr="foo &nbsp; &#229; &amp; bar"/>

    Illegal XML, should not be highlighted:
    	<0foobar> -- no digit as first character
    	<-foo> -- no dash as first character

    <wrong<very wrong>>