From a start tag to end tag everything you see in a XML document, is XML element. It can contain other elements, attributes and texts.
An Attribute is a value that is used to define additional information about the element.
Let's take an example to understand it well:
1. <librarymembers>
2. <student id="001">
3. <name>Vimal</name>
4. <age>25</age>
5. </student>
6. </librarymembers>
In the above example, <student> is an element and id is an attribute of the <student> element.
