operate on XML markup items. Thus \\[forward-sexp] will move forward
across one markup item; \\[backward-sexp] will move backward across
one markup item; \\[kill-sexp] will kill the following markup item;
-\\[mark-sexp] will mark the following markup item. By default, each
-tag each treated as a single markup item; to make the complete element
-be treated as a single markup item, set the variable
-`nxml-sexp-element-flag' to t. For more details, see the function
-`nxml-forward-balanced-item'.
+\\[mark-sexp] will mark the following markup item. By default, the
+complete element is treated as a single markup item; to make each tag be
+treated as a separate markup item, set the variable `nxml-sexp-element-flag'
+to nil. For more details, see the function `nxml-forward-balanced-item'.
\\[nxml-backward-up-element] and \\[nxml-down-element] move up and down the element structure.
move backward across N balanced expressions.
This is the equivalent of `forward-sexp' for XML.
-An element contains as items strings with no markup, tags, processing
-instructions, comments, CDATA sections, entity references and
-characters references. However, if the variable
-`nxml-sexp-element-flag' is non-nil, then an element is treated as a
-single markup item. A start-tag contains an element name followed by
-one or more attributes. An end-tag contains just an element name.
-An attribute value literals contains strings with no markup, entity
-references and character references. A processing instruction
-consists of a target and a content string. A comment or a CDATA
-section contains a single string. An entity reference contains a
-single name. A character reference contains a character number."
+An element is by default treated as a single markup item.
+However, if the variable `nxml-sexp-element-flag' is nil, then an
+element contains as items strings with no markup, tags,
+processing instructions, comments, CDATA sections, entity
+references and character references. A start-tag contains an
+element name followed by one or more attributes. An end-tag
+contains just an element name. An attribute value literals
+contains strings with no markup, entity references and character
+references. A processing instruction consists of a target and a
+content string. A comment or a CDATA section contains a single
+string. An entity reference contains a single name. A character
+reference contains a character number."
(interactive "^p")
(or arg (setq arg 1))
(cond ((> arg 0)